Dean M. Estabrook 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.
Oh, there you go, bringing in a major theorist and trying to quell our own little "it's tonal when I say it's tonal" arguments!
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