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Originally Posted by Frownland
You don't have to be forward looking to be experimental imo, that's what takes it to the level of avant-garde.
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So experimental is unambitious avant-garde?
But you're probably right.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Formlessness and tunelessness are massive umbrellas though, aren't they? I'm certain that there's more to be explored there, as with form...fulness and tune...fulness.
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There is, no doubt. But you can be predictable about it too.
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Very little music is atonal btw since that means the entire absence of a key or mode, which makes a lot of very dissonant music "tonal" even though they aren't traditionally pleasant.
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But it's a sliding scale, right? The way I always understood it was, that if it's truly atonal, then it's serial music - since that system was devised exactly to avoid favoring of any particular tonality over another. So I guess atonal just means that there's not any particular key that's clearly dominant, even if one can argue for leanings in various directions.