Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5d.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5e!hou5d!mat From: mat@hou5d.UUCP (M Terribile) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Tonality, Chromaticism, etc -- A question Message-ID: <995@hou5d.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 09:49:45 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5d.995 Posted: Thu Jun 21 09:49:45 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 06:28:28 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 20 As I drove in thiis morning, I heard the fantasy from Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue. Now I realize that to such right thinking admirers of Schoenberg and Cage as we have on this net, Bach is a dried out old fossil, but maybe some of us you would stoop low enough to talk a little about it. How does the whirlwind movement of that ``tonal canter'' relate in the C.F. relate to the discussion of chromaticism and the death of tonality in this century? Or does it? Is there a method to the apparent madness of tonal motion in the CF? How does Bach do it? (I know, this question has been asked to kingdom come about a lot of B's work ...) If I get an interesting answer to this, maybe I will ask about B's Passacaglia in c ... -- from Mole End Mark Terribile (scrape..dig) hou5d!mat ,.. .,, ,,, ..,***_*.