Life Without Chords? – Atonal Music
Gresham College Lecture
Thursday 18 May 2023 • 6pm
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The Event
Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s
Lecture by
Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA
The event will finish at approximately 7pm
Tickets
Free. Please visit the Gresham website for more information and to book.
Pre-registration for in-person and online attendance required.
In the early 20th century, the system of tonal harmony started to break down …
The vertical accumulations of notes became too complex for our powers of memory and recognition, and some have suggested that this led to a loss of meaning and even humanity in music. This lecture will discuss expressive uses of atonality, and also the return of familiar chords to music, but outside the grammar that used to give them their logic.
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