Comments on: Reinventing Classical Music http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2008/02/07/reinventing-classical-music/ Innovating Through Artistry Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jim Plamondon http://blog.entrepreneurthearts.com/2008/02/07/reinventing-classical-music/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Jim Plamondon Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:37:39 +0000 http://entrepreneurthearts.wordpress.com/?p=409#comment-66 Perhaps if the issues that led to the "crisis of tonality" could be resolved, the research program of common practice music could be re-invigorated, and classical music could once again be a vibrant, popular, contemporary art form. To do that, you'd have to find a way to expand the framework of tonality to include new musical structures without sacrificing consonance, which mainstream audiences demand. Such an advance appears to be on the horizon, arising from the discovery of tuning invariance, described here: http://www.thummer.com/blog/2008/02/dynamic-tonality-references.html Tuning invariance -- and Dynamic Tonality, which tuning invariance enables -- could have a big impact on music: http://www.thummer.com/blog/2007/12/going-somewhere.html Dynamic Tonality is just one aspect of an effort being undertaken in Austin, Texas to increase the success rate of music education by rethinking music from the sound up. http://www.thummer.com/blog/2007/10/growing-market.html Your comments welcome! :-) --- Jim Perhaps if the issues that led to the “crisis of tonality” could be resolved, the research program of common practice music could be re-invigorated, and classical music could once again be a vibrant, popular, contemporary art form.

To do that, you’d have to find a way to expand the framework of tonality to include new musical structures without sacrificing consonance, which mainstream audiences demand.

Such an advance appears to be on the horizon, arising from the discovery of tuning invariance, described here:
http://www.thummer.com/blog/2008/02/dynamic-tonality-references.html

Tuning invariance — and Dynamic Tonality, which tuning invariance enables — could have a big impact on music:
http://www.thummer.com/blog/2007/12/going-somewhere.html

Dynamic Tonality is just one aspect of an effort being undertaken in Austin, Texas to increase the success rate of music education by rethinking music from the sound up.
http://www.thummer.com/blog/2007/10/growing-market.html

Your comments welcome! :-)

— Jim

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