Talk:Music Theory/Atonal
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Some people claim atonal music is not music in the same way some claim abstract art is not art.
- What about music from the movie "Star Wars" (1977) ? That was atonal music. Felix Petrar
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- It is? I've never seen anything about that music being atonal.
- I agree. As far as I can tell it's quite tonal. Was there a specific piece of music that struck you as being atonal? A.C.
- Overall, the music is tonal, but if you limit the meaning of tonal to its technical definition- that is, as every note fitting into tonality in a 17th century way - very little music is "tonal" as such. For practicality's sake, the layman term tonality refers to music following key structurs, maintaining the primacy of the V-I, etc. I would consider most film music to be more influenced by romanticism than classical music, and so it is not TECHNICALLY tonal. 68.37.236.200 (talk) 05:02, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
- I agree. As far as I can tell it's quite tonal. Was there a specific piece of music that struck you as being atonal? A.C.
- It is? I've never seen anything about that music being atonal.
