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In this article the author informs about Finnish Composer Einojuhani Rautavaara experience as lack of progressive logic in his output and development with abrupt changes of composing techniques as a series of revolutions. Topics discussed include integral serialism can be considered merely an extension of basic twelve-tone techniques; complete reversal of style and technique into neoromanticism; and Serial techniques were used for rhetorical purposes in music compositions.

In this article the author informs about mature style of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara with modernistic devices, which features such as neoromantic textures, triadic and modal harmonies, aleatoric counterpoint, clusters, and serialism. It mentions about characteristic of Rautavaara's twelve-tone practices already in his first serial period around the turn of the 1960s.