diatonicism

Mr. Grimley observes that "For Sibelius, Neilsen and, for that matter, for Vaughan Williams, the turn to diatonicism in the first decade of the 20th century was a strongly modernist gesture—a search for strength, clarity and tonal freedom through a positive move away from what they regarded as a decadent, emotionally saturated late-Wagnerian chromaticism."

Nordic Exposure at Bard Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

The presence of the first and fourth scale degrees push it past the basic V-I found in hymns, but its resolute diatonicism keeps it from sounding like straight-up jazz.

Our Prayer Matthew Guerrieri 2007

The presence of the first and fourth scale degrees push it past the basic V-I found in hymns, but its resolute diatonicism keeps it from sounding like straight-up jazz.

Archive 2007-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

I would be curious to know whether composers who work with just intonation came to it through diatonicism and then realized how cool it would be to adapt it to chromaticism, or whether they were chromatic from the start and just continually dissatisfied with the equal-tempered results.

Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Whenever someone tells me that someone they know in academia is "sympathetic to minimalism," I always wonder: you mean simply that they've learned to re-accept diatonicism in timeline music? or have they realized that a piece of music need not contain any events?

ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News 2010

Whenever someone tells me that someone they know in academia is "sympathetic to minimalism," I always wonder: you mean simply that they've learned to re-accept diatonicism in timeline music? or have they realized that a piece of music need not contain any events?

ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News 2010

In each module a single harmonic aura tends to prevail: never has pure diatonicism been so alive.

CounterPunch 2009