Re: Chord Function?

"Orlando Enrique Fiol" <ofiol@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Why must the twelve pitches be distributed evenly if the listener is not
> keeping track of that process? As long as the same sonorities are not
> repeated too often, the piece will never sound tonal.
>
>

Like I said Orlando, I think initially there was a concern that if the
music 
was not "totally opposite" of tonality, people whose listening experiences

had been rooted in virtually only one thing (remember, we didn't have the 
kind of world-wide communication we have today) would still "listen for" 
that thing in their music. So for them, I don't believe it was a question
of 
creating atonality, but one of negating tonality. Even distribution wasn't
a 
characteristic of tonality, so it seemed like the most obvious
alternative. 
Furthermore, we always say "atonality" but Schoenberg was interested in 
"Pantonality" - where "all" note had equal rights to be the most
im****tant. 
Even distribution again seems like a logical methodology to achieve this.

Steve