Hair, G. (2005) What is referential ('motivic') tonality, and how does it differ from functional tonality? Network for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science, Technology, and Music,
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Abstract
Many of my compositions of recent years are characterised by a particular treatment of melodic and harmonic materials, and a particular way of linking these materials to rhythmic, textural and other factors, for which I have proposed the term ‘post-atonal tonality’. Works exemplifying this idea include my Twelve Transcendental Concert Studies on Themes from the Australian Poets for piano solo,my Octet with Voices for string quartet and four women’s voices, and my song-cycle O Venezia,for four women’s voices and harp. All of these compositions are in some broad sense tonal compositions,but the tonality which they exemplify is of a particular kind: quite different from that form of tonality exemplified by what we often call the ‘common practice’ tradition (‘from Bach to Brahms’), but also quite different from the various forms of tonality encountered in traditional and popular musics of various cultures of the present and past.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Hair, Professor Graham |
| Authors: | Hair, G. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering |
| Journal Name: | Network for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science, Technology, and Music |
| Publisher: | N-ISM |
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