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From: mat@hou5d.UUCP (M Terribile)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Tonality, Chromaticism, etc -- A question
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 09:49:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 09:49:45 1984
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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 ...
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					from Mole End
					Mark Terribile
		     (scrape..dig)	hou5d!mat
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