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I'm pleased to have stirred up a bit of passion.
Gardener, I am not sure what CPP tonality is so you will have to explain it to me. However I don't think you can say that non-tonality is the "general case" unless you are referring to a very small clique, i.e. people who visit Donaueschingen. I don't think I was suggesting that tonality is the perfect system. It is more that, as you say, in comparison with the audiences that other kinds of music have, it is evident that atonal music will never be an audience winner for classical music.
To place this issue within a broader context, it is also evident (at least to me) that classical music programmes (live concerts, radio broadcasts, cd releases) are dominated by dead European males and this has been the case for a long time. Classical music in general has all the characteristics of a museum artifact. We accept this as normal but this was not always the case. For example, 100 years ago there were far fewer concerts but most live performances were concerned with new works by living composers not with plodding out the usual warhorses. I am not suggesting that this change is the result of composers writing atonal music. However, it appears to me that classical music in general needs to change. I think that this has to be composer led. Composers need to write from where audiences tastes are not from some theoretical or academic starting point. I suppose I am suggesting that atonality is not a good starting from which to imagine the future of classical music.
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