How to Understand(and Enjoy!) Atonal Music, Part 2: The Wars of the 1950s
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
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The War of the Serialists Versus the Tonalists
Messian found in Bird Song a chance to meld together tonality and tonality. Some ill-timed comments that were interpreted as supportive of communism left Copeland as an outlier. Schoenberg did not even allow for the idea that Copeland was writing tonal music because he wanted to do that. Even Stravinsky was moved to write 12-tone music as he worried history was passing him by.
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