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In Reply to: RE: It's taken me years to really like Bartok... posted by andy evans on November 12, 2014 at 03:39:32
I'm not sure I would characterize ANY of Bartok's music as atonal - of course, it's human nature to try to impose a tonality on music that we hear, so maybe I'm just fooling myself. ;-)
In any case, I certainly don't hear his PC 2 as atonal in the sense that, say, Schoenberg's "Book of the Hanging Gardens" is atonal. Maybe the impression of atonality is a sliding scale that varies with different listeners?
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One of my favorite classical works is movement 2 of the Bartok Second Piano Concerto -- it's not atonal but more 'super-tonal'....not focused on an 8 tone scale but the logic works better if understood as a 12 tone scale with tonality rules....same for Ives' Central Park In The Dark.
The atonality argument for the Bartok Second is partly due to the ultra-complex nature of Hungarian Peasant music which is the basis for most of Bartok's themes.
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Marty N.
. . . if I understand correctly. I'll just say again (and this agrees with what you're suggesting I think) that there are a number of places in the PC 2 that seem to me like cadences - or at least have the same rhetoric as cadences in earlier music.
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