Editing Daniel Jones (composer) (section)

==Composition==
By 1936, Jones had devised his own compositional system of Complex Metres, which was fully developed in his ''Sonata for Three Non-Chromatic Kettle-Drums'' (1947). In 1950, he described this system: "The unifying element of fixed pattern is present, but the pattern itself is asymmetrical, therefore with a powerful means of satisfying structural requirements there would seem to be possible both a greater variety and a greater subtlety in the rhythm-metre relationship".<ref>''The Score'', June 1950.</ref> Jones's system was adapted in Germany by the composer [[Boris Blacher]]. For Jones himself his complex structures had always to be allied with emotive intention. As is the case with other composers who used both serial techniques and tonality, Jones's music may for a time have seemed too advanced for traditionalists and too old-fashioned for the avant-garde.