Klarinet Archive - Posting 000433.txt from 2001/11

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: RE: [kl] Beethoven "tango" and "jazz"
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 19:31:28 -0500

> As a Music Theorist and a Modern Classical Com-
> poser who writes in the rarely known Chromatic Func-
> tional Modality System, I find it strange that the same
> people who sit down and cry like babies, that demand
> the latest Technology for their Medicine, Communica-
> tions, Transportation and Computations, scream even
> louder for "Modern" Music, but go into shock if you
> give them Bartok, Hindemith, Lutoslawski, etc.!

Going back to the Thread of what's Good and what's Bad - is Composing in the
rarely known Chromatic Functional Modality System "Better" than the
brain-dead Simple Chord Progressions?

Mark C.

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