Please define "Non -Tonal."
Dean
On May 25, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On May 25, 2007, at 7:04 PM, Phil Daley wrote:
I agree. But if it's non-tonal, it's not good.
Really? Berg's violin concerto is not good? Wozzeck and Lulu are
not good? *All* of Varèse is not good? Three of the four movements
of Ives' fourth symphony are not good? Pierrot Lunaire and
Erwartung are not good?
Are you *sure* you want to go there?
--The story is told of a visitor to the Louvre who struck up a
conversation w. the security guard, criticizing this painting and
that, finding fault with all and satisfied with none. Finally the
guard could take no more of this and said "Pardonnez moi, monsieur,
but it is not the *pictures* that are on trial here."
--A word to the wise.
And another thing: non-tonal and atonal are not synonyms. Most
music, in fact, is non-tonal: Medieval and Renaissance music, non-
Western music (all of it), rock music... Being charitable, I assume
your blanket condemnation does not extend to any of these musics,
but is limited to that properly called atonal. Even that puts you
*way* out on a limb.
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://www.kallistimusic.com/
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"Lift Tab to Open." Then, "To Close, Insert Tab Here ." Yeah,
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the tab but also the slit intended to accept the aforementioned
protuberance have both been irreparably disfigured and rendered
dysfunctional. This debacle is then amplified by the misbehavior
of the recalcitrant inner bag, which can not be unsealed sans
mangling it, and hence, will not disperse its contents without
exiting the box itself. All I wanted was a bowl of cereal.
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