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A White Flag for Tonality in Choral Music Compositions

A White Flag for Tonality in Choral Music Compositions

My first academic article!

Sep 23, 2022
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Three New York Diplomats: 1950-1965 - William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti, and Norman Dello Joio

Abstract 

The concert music landscape in New York City in the 1950s was an increasingly divided one. The rejection of key signatures and traditional tonal syntax was a known expectation and point of contention among musicians i…

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