On 2002/11/15 05:13 PM or thereabouts, Randolph Peters
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> Andrew Stiller wrote:
> [snip]
>> Rock (of which Pop, for the past 40 years, is a synonym, not a
>> different genre) is not tonal. Triadic yes, diatonic yes, but not
>> tonal. A genre in which one may cadence with any progression at all
>> *except* the authentic, may end on a suspension or a seventh chord,
>> or may fade out without any conclusion at all, cannot be called
>> tonal in any sense that I would recognize.
>
> Ok, I'll bite.
>
> Isn't tonality a concept bigger than, and inclusive of, the following
> subcategories?:
>
> Triadic, Diatonic, Modal, and Functional harmonies
Gregorian Chant is tonal? Yours ain't the definition of "tonality" I was
taught.
- Darcy
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