Have you ever experienced that an atonal composer talked very incoherently and incomprehensibly

• May 11, 2020 - 14:36

Whenever I try to listen to atonal music, it sound for me like a random cluster of notes. So I cannot understand why composers compose this way. Have you ever experienced that such persons talked very incoherently and incomprehensibly? I do not want to belittle those composers, but perhaps it is a proof how baneful atonal music is.


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Lots of people are able to appreciate and understand atonal music just fine. Just because you don't happen to doesn't make it baneful.

And yes, I think I usually speak pretty coherently, so do the dozens of other composers of atonal music I know.

I would argue that ANY music that is composed with definite pitches--in other words, not for unpitched percussion ensemble--is "tonal." But it appears that the OP, while coherent and comprehensible, is bordering rather closely on baiting and hate-speech.

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