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May 10, 2019 at 8:43 answer added Albrecht Hügli timeline score: 0
May 10, 2019 at 6:08 comment added Albrecht Hügli I estimate a lot questions like this one as they are inquiring terms of our daily use: e.g. the 8 distinct senses of tonality have been an immense enlightenment to me.
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Jan 28, 2016 at 20:21 comment added user1449 This is an interesting question but it is hard to know how to answer it in its current form. To begin with, could you provide a link to the answer that you refer to in your first sentence? In general, I think it is unhelpful to think of "modal" and "tonal" as two separate systems which are opposed to each other.
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Jan 24, 2016 at 12:17 comment added Нет войне From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonality : At least eight distinct senses of the word "tonality", some mutually exclusive, have been identified. If you want your word meanings neatly pinned down, maybe tonal is not a word you want to be using at all - at least in a 'general' sense where the context does not clarify what's meant?
Jan 24, 2016 at 9:34 comment added T-H @Dom But as I understand, if there is a song of only V-I repeated, (say, with the V in a metric isolated pick-up measure as not to confuse with I-IV) saying it is only cadences is to mean that it expresses nothing but punctuation in the analogy that cadence punctuates the end of a musical sentence at least in CPP style, which tonality is said, by various music teachers, to specifically refer to. It's more coherent as a tonic prolongation than a dominant prolongation, but the example would never advance to be a full sentence, hence a q raised of whether the term tonality is undergeneralized.
Jan 24, 2016 at 8:12 comment added Rockin Cowboy I'm just sayin ..... PS: It's difficult for simple minded musicians such as myself to understand exactly what you are asking. Please simplify or clarify the question in order to encourage and facilitate more answers. Thanks.
Jan 24, 2016 at 8:08 comment added Rockin Cowboy I presuppose that your are fluent in English. I consider myself above average in communication skills and intelligence and have tested more than once in the genus level in IQ test. Unfortunately however, your superfluous display of unequivocally stupendous elegance in your pontificatory execution of extensively abundant faculty for use of substantially distinguished terminology, tends to contribute to an obfuscatory diminishment of the ability for individuals in possession of less than extraordinary competence in sesquipedalian interpretation to decipher the essence of your question.
Jan 23, 2016 at 22:14 comment added Dom May answer fully later, but a quick answer is if you use the chords I-IV-V at all and have some a typical cadence including the plagal cadence it's tonal.
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