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Composition and (Post?) Modernity

Author: Micaela
Date: 2004-04-14 02:56

Hey guys,
I'm currently a freshman in college. I'm writing a violin sonata as my final project for Music Theory II. I like writing it and I think it's coming along well. My theory teacher likes it a great deal and wants me to take composition lessons in the future. The composition teacher at my college is high-powered and it would be very good for me to study with him.

The problem: My idiom is, for the most part, late Romantic. I like some modern music but have never gotten used to atonality. I would never like to write atonal music. I wouldn't take composition for a while anyway (I have to finish Theory IV) so maybe I'll appreciate it more by then. But I know enough people who are taking composition now to know that most people who work with this professor (it's a small college- we only have one composition teacher) are encouraged to write atonal music. I'm not sure what to do. I have a long time to think about it, but it's confusing me. Have any of you encountered similar problems? I'm hoping to jump into the post-atonal universe, but I'm not sure if that's possible. (My subject line is not the traditional use of postmodern.)

Thanks for reading,
Micaela

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