Adorno changed his evaluation of serial technique from rejection to approval

Evidence

Although Adorno during the 1950s had regarded serial technique as a system that went hand in hand with the expulsion of musical meaning and `composedness’, in the 1960s he saw it as an advance in the development of musical productivity, control over the material and the ability to distinguish between what was correct and what was falsein short, a welcome process of enlightenment. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2206

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Illustrates Adorno’s dialectical self-revision: what he once condemned as mechanical meaning-expulsion he later embraced as enlightenment — a reversal rare in his oeuvre and revealing about how critical judgment tracks historical material.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno reversed himself, presenting twelve-tone technique as necessary progress after denouncing it as domination. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1274; Serial music extended rational organization while dropping Adorno’s subjective complement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2190

Broader Connections

• Serial music extended rational organization while dropping Adorno’s subjective complement #complicates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2190