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The Role of Tonality in contemporary and ‘up-to-date’ composition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
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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.
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