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From: chris@laidbak.UUCP (Chris Granner)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Sibelius - tone poems (Post-Tonality???)
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Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 13:18:56 EDT
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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 )

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