At 5:26 PM -0500 11/16/02, John Howell wrote:
>I also have wondered for a long time about the word "atonal." I can'tfigure out any meaningful definition for it that includes how the listener would hear it, which I would have to try to take into consideration.ChristopherThe textbook definition is that it is music with no tonal center, while pantonal music has all tonal centers present. I would certainly have a difficult time telling one from the other! And of course some of Berg's works beg the definition because the tone row suggests tonality! John
Exactly. Like Berg's violin concerto (a gorgeous work!) among others. Serial music is not necessarily atonal (whatever that means), but that still puts me back at square one...
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