Elisabeth Lutyens' first truly serial composition, the Chamber Concerto No. 1, was completed in 1939, the year after she and Clark became partners, and she dedicated it to him.

The basis for serial composition is Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, where the 12 notes of the basic chromatic scale are organized into a row.

All conventional polyphonic forms are well suited to serial composition, especially as the series is naturally suited to horizontal writing.

The idea of a Hegelian dialectic at work in which tonality became "used up" and led necessarily into serial composition - all of this is debatable today, but back then, it was orthodoxy.

Even La Jalousie, which had become assimilated into the 'great tradition' of the French psychological novel, could be described as an exercise in serial composition, as its author himself would claim.

He also used serial composition.

Although it is a serial composition, this matters most on the levels of rhythm, polyphony (control of density), and articulation.

As a youth, he was schooled in serial composition, and used to play his work for Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft.

For him there were no modal, tonal or serial compositions, only music with or without colour.

I suggest it is not Schoenberg or serial composition that needs defending.