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The Role of Tonality in contemporary and ‘up-to-date’ composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Ladislav Kupkovic
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I Consider the phrase ‘New Simplicity’ not quite correct, insofar as one is led to assume that present-day music is evolving from an older, more complicated state to a newer, more simple one. Two things are wrong here:

1. present-day music is not evolving from the complex to the simple, but from the atonal to the tonal.

2. atonal does not mean complicated, and tonal does not mean simple.

Type
Research Article
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Tempo , Issue 135 , December 1980 , pp. 15 - 19
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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