Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site laidbak.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!laidbak!chris From: chris@laidbak.UUCP (Chris Granner) Newsgroups: net.music.classical Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems (Post-Tonality???) Message-ID: <229@laidbak.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 13:18:56 EDT Article-I.D.: laidbak.229 Posted: Sun Sep 29 13:18:56 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Sep-85 02:31:21 EDT Reply-To: chris@laidbak.UUCP (Chris Granner) Organization: LAI Chicago Lines: 15 In article <133@ur-tut.UUCP> rwfi@ur-tut.UUCP (Robert Fink) writes: > ...Sibelius' unique brand of post-tonality will be acknowledged to > be as viable as the vastly more respectable ones of Bartok and Stravinsky. I'm sorry, but one has to work an awful lot harder than Sibelius did to escape tonality. The only people who were successful at this threw out the tonal system entirely, rather than just "avoiding" tonal tendancies (and of course Bartok (but NOT Stravinsky) is a cogent example of this). Flames aside, I'd be interested to know what you mean by "post-tonality." -cg ( ...!ihnp4!laidbak!chris ) hail eris all hail discordia