Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with … - Paul Lansky

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Paul Lansky

Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.

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