Sam Kemp wrote in response to Steve Schwartz:

>>Piston's music becomes less quartally-based....
>
>....In all politeness, meaning what exactly? I hate to be ignorant, but
>such words mean as little to me as "hexachord" and the other academicisms
>that seem to pervade "learned" writings about Schoenberg, et al, that I
>think must contribute to some of the public's general fear of atonality.

Based on chords constructed out of fourths, sibling terms being "triadic" -
built out of traids, and "clustered" built out of tones and semitones.

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