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Old 02-23-2012, 06:44 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rubato View Post
Much of the change music has gone through was through attempts to cast out common practice tonality and basically invert the entire system, this isn't a change in style it's a change at its most fundamental level, it was only picked up and incorporated back into the system by Stravinsky and a few others.
In terms of improvisational music, lack of conventional tonality is not the goal, it's expression through terms of release and release is sometimes lugubrious. Are you honestly suggesting that there are only a few who use innovation yet incorporate it into conventional techniques?
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