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Right. I dont what to hijack the thread, but surely even music supposedly composed in the mind, as it were, is done using a set of strategies, unconscious, intuitive or not. They have developed from your experience of various musics. Serial technique is, much like fugue, a way of externalising intuition, so that the composer can focus more on the pure aspects of structure and logic in the music, and not be attracted to, or distracted by a momentary idea. I am not suggesting this is a "better" way, it is just "a" way; but to emphasise, all music is composed using strategies (or more accurately, conventions) at one level or another.
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