"So-called ‘Atonal’ Music Has Just Been In A Minor All Along" - Discuss....

[Nick Armstrong]

http://www.submediant.com/2015/11/02/study-so-called-atonal-music-just-been-in-a-minor-all-along/

[Pabmusic]

Oh dear! I suspect he's a part-time taxonomist, because the 'row' seems to mirror the arguments about just what species any new fossil belongs to. (Hint: classification is a human construct - very useful most of the time, but ultimately artificial.)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What an idiot!



It's quite clearly A Phrygian!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Hint: classification is a human construct - very useful most of the time, but ultimately artificial.)

(But then I would think that - typical Capricorn.)

[Pabmusic]

(But then I would think that - typical Capricorn.)

Sagittarian, me (if I believed in anything like that, of course).

[Steerpike]

The write-up sounds like a spoof to me

[vinteuil]

The write-up sounds like a spoof to me

Surely not!

... I think I preferred the article in the same publication recommending the five catchiest Stockhausen Klavierstücke for working-out to ; and the article proving that Telemann was the greatest composer of all time...

[Nick Armstrong]

Surely not!

... I think I preferred the article in the same publication recommending the five catchiest Stockhausen Klavierstücke for working-out to ; and the article proving that Telemann was the greatest composer of all time...

[Hornspieler]

Sagittarian, me (if I believed in anything like that, of course).

Like most Sagittarians, I don't believe in astrology.

HS

[Lento]

I could just about persuade myself of some A minor vestiges, but only by playing the melody fairly loud and the rest very soft (and by being primed in advance to expect A minor)! How often the ear "looks" for tonality when it isn't really there (or just implied) is an interesting point, possibly. Or perhaps "tonal centres".

[teamsaint]

(But then I would think that - typical Capricorn.)

Don't forget membership is due for renewal next month.

Not that we capricorns need reminding, I suppose.

[Serial_Apologist]

Probably the, er, key-note clue in that article is where the author refers to the Rite of Spring and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra as part of his argument.

And what's all this about raised and lowered intervals in the key of A minor? Unless this is a misquote, the one characteristic of diatonic scales is their consistency in intervallic distribution. I can't see anything else in it that makes any sense.

[Zucchini]

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Any logicians about? Is the publisher's statement true or false?

[Serial_Apologist]

"ABOUT US
Submediant is a satirical site. Its contents are not to be trusted. Believe at your own risk."

Any logicians about? Is the publisher's statement true or false?

A minor diversion then, I guess.

[Lat-Literal]

Like most Sagittarians, I don't believe in astrology.

HS

I have had my moments for as well as against - but then am close to its cusp with Capricorn.

The thread suggests 95% of forum members are Sagittarians or Capricorns. On topic, no idea!