Word: diatonicism
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If complaint is necessary, this rhythmic consistency, along with the primarily diatonic harmonies of most of the works, made the program a bit too homogenous. The one admittedly "atonal" work, Two Movements for Marimba by Toshimitsu Tanaka, provided a welcome contrast to the harmonic vocabulary of the other works. With...
The accordion may bring to mind visions of polkas and Lawrence Welk, but to the Cajuns it is the cornerstone of their distinctive sound. First introduced into Louisiana in 1850, the diatonic Cajun accordion has 10 melody buttons (instead of the more familiar piano keys) on one side and two...
At long last, we have broken into a vast, untapped linguistic realm of diatonic-scale proportions. To deny this prodigious development, this long-awaited break-through, would be rapaciously antisemantic. Still, to accept this eventful flux without the genuine sincerity of welcoming emotion would be no less prejudicial.
Other moments in this concert are less successful Coleman's piece 'Forms and Sounds for Wind Quintet' in ten movements has high theoretic ambitions but in performance is tedious. Coleman states that it is "a combination of diatonic and atonal intervals that creates a form out of a sound and...
Classical rock is something well above and beyond the familiar, and often appalling, stylistic melange known as jazzing the classics. It draws on classical style and technique in much the same way the Stones draw on blues, The Band on country, or John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra on jazz...