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- From: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: tonality and modern music
- Message-ID: <47557@dscatl.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:11:27 GMT
- References: <By13s0.68r@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> <lgr2teINNia0@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Reply-To: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
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- In article <lgr2teINNia0@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jamesc@bassclar.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
- }Jack Campin, jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk, writes:
- }>Have you actually *heard* much of Stockhausen? Case in point: "Stimmung"
- }>(which is about as tonal as music can possibly get). If you can listen
- }>to that all the way through and *not* have the urge to sing that little
- }>"oo-ee-oo-ee-oo-ee-Yahweh" bit in the bath for the next week I would be
- }>very surprised.
- }
- }About the only music MORE tonal than "Stimmung" would be some bare drone
- }pieces by LaMonte Young!
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- Or "Spiral Mandala" by Pauline Oliveros. (For which I played one
- of the 8 crystal glasses several years back in an Atlanta
- performance.) ...although none of these are 'tonal' in the
- Piston Harmony sense, of course (but then, neither is much
- early music, either).
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- Cheers,
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- --Mark Gresham
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- dscatl!mgresham@gatech.edu
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