On 27 May 2007 at 12:45, 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.
Many words have more than one meaning, often a very specific one and a generalized one. When some people use "tonal" they mean functional tonality. Others mean merely music with a tonal center. Andrew quite clearly used it in the former sense, which I think should have been pretty clear to all given the music he was describing as non-tonal. Neither is right. Neither is wrong. It depends on context. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
