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Lecture, LSO St Luke's, Thursday, 18 May 2023 - 18:00
Life Without Chords? – Atonal Music
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In the early 20th century, the system of tonal harmony started to break down. The vertical accumulations of notes became too complex for our powers of memory and recognition, and some have suggested that this led to a loss of meaning and even humanity in music.
In this lecture we will discuss expressive uses of atonality, and also the return of familiar chords to music, but outside the grammar that used to give them their logic.
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