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It is generally agreed that the breakdown of tonality commenced in 1857 with Wagner's Tristan & Isolde. It pushed chromaticism into a new sound world where the boundaries of tonality could be barely contained as, for example, in Richard Strauss' opera Elektra.
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"...If by tonality we mean loyalty to a tonic, or even preference for the tonic ... "...The Viennese school of music from Mahler to Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, is the musical expression (that word again!) of the breakdown of the European spirit in its Germanic aspect, and in Webern's music its almost total atomisation.
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“To speak of the ‘breakdown of tonality’… is to beg the question, as we can see if we look to a similar late-nineteenth century development in literature… Free play of meaning is essential [to Mallarme] … we cannot speak of the breakdown of a linguistic system in Mallarme, or the decline of French.
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The collapse of tonality, in my view, is a particularly tantalizing and symptomatic aspect of 'Fin-de-siècle Vienna,' and my approach stems ... Caveat on the word 'breakdown:' I use here it as one of many possibilities (exhaustion, collapse, abandonment, ...), without, as far as I can see, letting it prejudge the issue.
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The Medieval Period (400-1400) ... This resulted in a breakdown of tonality, and by the later part of the period, nearly any chord could be used with very minimal preparation. Modulations to distant keys were sudden and severe.
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If we're going to study technology and sound, where do we start? If we back-up and try to look the concept of technology in a little broader way than we might in everyday use, we can do a much better job of putting things in a context (which is essentially what the study of history is) ... The Breakdown of Tonality:
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A great amount of experimentation with new ideals and new sounds took place between about 1900-1930, both in Europe and America. ... Less concrete (more 'blurred') distinctions of Tonality: Major vs. minor, melody vs. harmony, lead vs. accompaniment ... The Breakdown of Tonality...
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THE BREAKDOWN OF TRADITIONAL TONALITY. The Sources. The Revolution: Paris and Vienna. THE NEW TONALITIES. Stravinsky and Neo-Classicism. Neo-Classicism and Neo-Tonality in France and Outside of France. National Styles.
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The Breakdown of Tonality ... When the world turned to atheism, then Hashem withdrew the power of kings and there was a concomitant loss of tonality in music. Similarly in the visual arts, realism gave way to increasing abstraction and nihilism. ... Jewish Music and the Breakdown of Tonality...
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That Will Bring us Back to Doe Jewish Music and the Breakdown of Tonality by Rabbi Yaakov Sinclair; All Roads Lead to Rome The Power of Media by Rabbi Yaakov Sinclair; A Mir Yom Kippur Even at the Most Important of Times, Some things Can Never Be Forgotten;
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