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In Reply to: RE: Non-functional harmony - composers? posted by andy evans on July 31, 2020 at 02:13:18
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This is more what I had in mind - Claus Ogerman. Schreker sounds like Sibelius on acid, though it is indeed non-functional harmony. Just not my kind of musical language.
I've been looking for inspiration for my songwriting - trying to get away from the usual functional harmony you hear almost exclusively in popular music. Trying to wrench myself away from it, which is quite an effort. Don't want to use jazz harmony either - been there for too long as a gigging jazz musician. Bluesy chords and tritones isn't my goal. Something more open and floaty.
Benjamin Britten wrote some quasi tonal things that are not always functional, in the sense you may be after -- using the vocabulary of tonal music without the structural system of key centers.
Also Alan Rawsthorne -- if you start at 7:00 in the piece linked here you may find some of that floating sound you are after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk_nX_A846g
You might also want to have a look at a book by Avenir H. de Monfred, "The NDM Principle of Relative Music" (Scribner's, 1970).
NDM = New Diatonic Modal.
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