Re: Chord Function?

"Orlando Enrique Fiol" <ofiol@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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 can only add that dodecaphonic music is miserable at creating
> aural environments where a system of listener expectations can be
> grasped through hearing music rather than seeing its notation and
> studying scores.

Well, let's be careful here Orlando - not all dodecaphonic music is
serial.

>
> Most serial music still doesn't sound any better to me than it ever did
> because all I hear are typical atonal sonorities that I can quantify and
> even reproduce, albeit without the serial structures.

Well also, let's be careful here - there is serialism in non-dodecaphonic 
music. For example, Isorhythmic Motets are built on a fixed series of
pitch 
and melodic materials - those are from the 14th century!


>
> You've got it. The composition of music without any respect for
> listeners' needs for expectations in the first places is precisely what
> many classical music enthusiasts perceive as the rupture of the unspoken
> social contract between the composing class and the performing and
> listening cl*****.


That's a neat way to put it. I guess many composers (and artists, etc.)
just 
simply decided to "break" the contract as it was hindering their
creativity. 
I've got to say, I know as a composer, I can write whatever the hell I
want 
and not give a crap if anyone likes it or not, but on the flip side, it is

nice to have people want to listen to it.

Steve