Once you get into music without a tonal center, >i.e. some impressionist music, jazz, etc., then ET is better as you don't >want key differences to be enhanced. > >David Love David I think you are confusing your musical terminology. Most, if not all, Impressionistic and Jazz are tonal in nature. That is to say they have a key center. This doesn't mean that there are not transitory modulations to other keys within the piece. If anything Jazz is the form that is all about tonality. A jazzer never meant a ii V7 I progression he didn't like, in fact we add them in where ever we can. In western music you find the atonal music in the works of the serious composer's of the 20th Century such as Scheonberg, Aban Berg, Bartok and later Stravinsky and others. Interesting music. David Severance
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