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Tonal music

musique tonale

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Series · 23 May 2021From the lost voice to the path of modernity • From modal music to tonal music • D Pagani

6:54One note among all others is the note of rest: one moves away from it, creating tension, then resolves it by returning to it, like a dancer landing back on the ground.
11:02The real novelty was the shift to tonality as early as the seventeenth century, with equal temperament.