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The sheer loveliness of the music has prompted some writers to speculate that Babbitt has been loosening the grip of the twelve-tone system on his compositions, but this is hardly the case: at heart all of his recent music still depends on what Joseph Dubiel has called the Animation of Lists: the idea that musical significance arises from the dispositions of the maximally diverse, whether it be the aggregate of twelve pitch classes, a repertoire of instrumental ensembles, or the set of combinations of segments of elements summing to twelve, to mention just a few possibilities.
Morris (1987, 265-70) generalizes the principle to an array whose controlling pitch-class sequence contains fewer than twelve pitch classes.
As such, Johnston may be said to be working not so much with a set of twelve pitch classes, but rather with twelve pitch categories, the precise tuning of each depending on its structural function.
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