Re: Half step Whole step system
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:13 am
Wow. I admit when it was first posted, I was as confused as Hexameron as to why it made a difference. Now I understand and realize that when I learned tonal music I learned with whole and half steps and when I learned about atonality I learned the semitone system because the whole tone/half tone system fails to describe beyond-tonal music. Allen Forte's pitch class sets as described in The Structure of Atonal Music (ie describing a major triad with 1-5-8) makes much more sense. Maybe it's just the way I was trained, but I still find it easier to think of tonal music with half/whole steps (qualitative: minor second, major second, minor third, etc) So my use of the different vocabularies stem from whether I am talking about tonal or atonal music and I didn't even consciously recognize that until reading these posts. So, as the Russians would say, "спасибо!" (pronounced 'spaseeba')
Большое спасибо (balshoy spaseeba) Oberon and fellow pianophiles,
kingarthur
Большое спасибо (balshoy spaseeba) Oberon and fellow pianophiles,
kingarthur