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"tonal"

🔗Christopher Bailey <chris@...>

1/22/2007 7:04:06 AM

>
> Offhand, I would say anything not avowedly "serialist" would
> qualify as
> tonal. Composers at the Delians are generally (but not always)
> a bit
> conservative, and work in styles and harmonies from the 16th to
> 20th
> centuries (Prokovief et al). This is over-simplifying to say
> the least,
> but gives a general idea of where they're coming from.
>

From a composer's point of view, serialism is a technique, not a style. It is perfectly possible, and indeed, great fun and a worthy artistic endeavour to compose tonal serial music.

C Bailey