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From:
Eric Hill
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Date:
Fri, 03 May 1996 01:32:55 -0700
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Re: (idm) polyester
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quoted 1 line big drawback for me was all of the out-of-key improvisation;>big drawback for me was all of the out-of-key improvisation;
This is a criticism that goes back at least to Schoenberg's accentuation of "passing notes" at the beginnings of the pre-WWI gravitation toward chromaticism, and probably back to the tenor's loss of the _cantus firmus_ about 500 years ago. Traditional harmonic hearing can gloss over these dissonances up to a point since they are usually momentary, but when they are accentuated they provide new combinatory chordal possibilities. What composers have done throughout history: introduce harmonic tension in the form of tonal (or conceptual) dissonances that are eventually integrated back into the 'system' (i.e. key). Uwe's disregard for key and melodic resolution is simply an exercise in Ehrensweig's fourth stage of harmonic articulation which signifies the demise of the classic harmonic approach and dissonances are favored over consonances for their 'bite.' Go Uwe! eric ---------------------------- from the 909 to your alpines ---------------------------- "recent electro" mixtape now availiable www.burnmedia.com ----------------------------