[net.music] what is tonality, anyway?

janney@unm-cvax.UUCP (07/11/84)

>    Here's an interesting thought for you: one could easily write a piece
> which used 12-tone rows as a structural element but was tonal as well.

I believe that a well-known conservative 20th century composer
(Copland, perhaps?) wrote a twelve-tone piece using as the tone row
the circle of fifths.  Sorry, I can't remember who it was.

gayde@iwu1b.UUCP (Peter Gayde) (07/17/84)

Bela Bartok's "Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta" changes key
using the circle of fifths. However, I don't think this can be referred to
as a "tone row".

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