On May 27, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote:
Perhaps it may be a geeky pecadillo on my part, but "tonal"
requires that
the tonal center (or the tonal center of the moment, as it may be) be
established by it's own dominant and leading tone (thank you IU theory
department!). So modal (including the pentatonic modes with no 7th
and the
hexatonic with a flatted 7th) doesn't qualify. And of course (and
fortunately) it is not necessary to agree with this (or even
understand it)
to enjoy the music.
Depends on your definition of tonal, as I said before. I-IV-I
establishes a key centre as effectively as a I-V-I and without a
leading tone.
We just have to certain which "tonal" we are talking about.
It's like the difference between "classical" music and "Classical"
music. At least we have the capital C to distinguish the period from
the whole genre. Maybe we should start capitalising Tonal for when we
are talking about common-practice era European concert music, and
reserve the small-t tonal for anything with any key centre at all?
Christopher
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