"Dean M. Estabrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I perceive that there is a hang up on this thread, that we gotta have a leading tone present to qualify for tonality. Tonality can also be established by just plain harmonies or single chords. If you have a perfect fifth, or perfect fourth in a vertical aggregate, you have, according to Schenker, a tonal center present.
That's one authority who carries little weight with me. Schenker was not a total fool, but he was invincibly ignorant of the acoustics on which he purported to base his theories, unscholarly in some of his arguments, and a chauvinist in his musical tastes. Moreover, his later supporters include some with similar ignorance of, or contempt for, the facts of acoustics and psychology. (see http://www.mooremusic.org.uk/schenk/index.htm, Section 9, Paragraph 3, for two examples). -- Ken Moore _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
