Tower's style is of the 20th century, and a 21st. A rhythm & melodic flow of her music may be flexible, non limited by tonality or time signature, and her orchestration encompasses the wide range of tone colors. She teaches that a better pieces come a ones that are non "safe" around terms of sitting in the key or even even meter or standard class action of instruments.

Tower's writing is alone implemental. She has expressed there come no intention to compose utilizing vocaliser or even extramusical texts, noting that she just doesn't sense that words are needed to express anything inside music.

She is presently a Asher B. Edelman Prof of Music at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.