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Originally Posted by QcCowboy
I think the question should rather be "is the concept that 'tonality is not a valid compositional element' dead?"
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Yes I think this is a good way to look at things. It allows us to get away from the idea that there is an inevitability to how music changes.
As far as tonality being difficult to come up with something new, this is always a problem in any music. Very few composers/writers/painters/etc. are able to really imprint their personality on their work in such a way that what they create is recognisably them. Avoiding the conventional is difficult. Actually it is part of the reason why I raised the question of atonality in the first place. I wondered whether atonality was still part of the convention of modern music in the same way that it was when I was student (deep in the mists of time).