Word: tonal
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...classic pieces for symphonic band, such as those by Hindemith and Schoenberg, this year's concert drew almost exclusively on recent works. In Aaron Copland's "Outdoor Overture," the earliest work performed, brass fanfare was emphasized to a point where all harmonic subtlety was lost, but in the surprisingly tonal ending of "Music for Prague 1968," the band showed strong ability to play in chorale fashion...
Martino used tonal centers strong enough to appease the eighteenth century ears with which most listeners are equipped, but he did not do so in a blatantly reactionary fashion. It is an accomplishment to expand the appreciation of an audience without offending it: at best, the result is a Mozartean perfection of pre-established forms; at worst, it is misguided invention better spent writing yet another Bach chorale. In between those extremes, only the passage of time can determine whether the effort was a mere transitionary stroke or a truly original statement...
ONCE AGAIN the English have given American rock musicians something to think about. No longer content to ape twelve bar blues patterns, several English groups like Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and King Crimson have struck out in a new direction to create carefully arranged and precisely executed tonal patterns and musical textures...
...voice remarkable for its evenness. Her diction was good and one could only wish for more variation in dynamics. It was a mistake to use a harpsichord against the full string body: Gerald Moshell pushed the instrument as much as possible and all it produced was a distracting non-tonal jangle. With smaller forces, though, it was quite adequate; and the continuo playing included some appropriate ritards...
...counterpart. A narrow bore gives it a piercing sound, and pitch production is based on the natural overtone series, produced solely by lip inflection without the aid of keys. The result is a melodic scale available only in the third octave above fundamental pitch--a very high range. Sheer tonal brilliance readily distracts listeners from other aspects of the music...