There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, … - Paul Lansky

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There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.

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