Sunday, January 29, 2012

Why atonal music sounds all similar...

...in a certain sense?
Composers who wants to avoid tonality or fundamental tones are using since over 100 years the same technique of using all 12 tones - not necessarily with 12-tone technique but trying to reach a chromatic total in their music with several other techniques. The result is that all this pieces are using the same chromatic scale - it's like composing every piece in C-Major...