Nirvana69

True, absolute atonalism I never found appealing. And I don't think it had very much "life" to begin with. But the problem is is that very few pieces are true atonal. Most modern music isn't "atonal" so much as "unconventionally tonal". So it we're talking about the latter rather than the former than yes, I think there is still a lot of room to explore. I myself am always trying to push the bounds of what I can pull off while still remaining tonal. I don't believe in limiting one's music to diatonic scales. I believe that approach to music is boring. But at the same time, I don't see the point in rejecting those rules outright just to be non-comfortist.

Anyway, yes. I still think there is much to be discovered in music and we'll never discover these things until we can get past the simple "tonal" "atonal" labels.

If this is contradictory to anything I've said in the forum previously, I apologize. This subject comes up quite a lot on YC and some of the posts I've read have swayed my opinion quite a bit.