On May 27, 2007, at 5:48 PM, dhbailey wrote:
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!
Sure, ruin my Sunday, why don't you! :-)
Bwah-ha-ha!
Very good!
C.
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