My page number is from the 4th edition. Charles >>As for the term "atonal" referring only to serial music, I'll quote from >>Grout and Palisca's _A History of Western Music_ (p. 850): >> >>"Atonal" as currently used refers to music that is not based on the >>harmonic and melodic relationships revolving around a key center that >>characterize most music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centries. The >>term is no longer applied to music that is built on serial principles, >>such as twelve-tone series. ...Twelve-tone music ... need not be atonal. >> >> <snip> > I won't quibble with that and didn't mean imply that only serial music can > be atonal. Check your page numbers, that definition is on page 733(5th > edition) in my Grout and Palisca
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