On 27 May 2010 at 8:11, Christopher Smith wrote:

> Andrew, I don't get this. I checked the vocal score (took me until 
> this morning) and although all 12 pitches occur at some point in this
> piece, it is neither twelve-tone (as I understand it) nor atonal.
> 
> Am I missing something?

In addition to that, by the time The Fantasticks came out, there'd 
been decades of film music that consciously borrowed the most 
advanced musical techniques from avant garde composers. I am 
convinced that the fact that this music became part of the vocabulary 
of film scores is one of the reasons younger people have little 
difficulty with non-tonal music -- they've been hearing it their 
whole lives and have a framework of meaning in which to interpret it.

-- 
David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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