Pablo Massa:
>Steve Schwartz (about the musical preferences of monkeys):
>
>>The authors were loathe to speculate much on the meaning of these results
>>and noted that there was no scientific, objective way to measure a degree
>>of atonality. Is this really true?
Just a note. I didn't write this. And I agree with Pablo's comments
below.
>I think that this is true. Measuring atonality is just like measuring
>the "degree of legibility" of a text. In many cases it depends on who is
>listening. There are people who hear tonics and dominants in Schoenberg's
>pre-dodecaphonic works, and there are many works of XX century music of
>which it would be difficult to say whether they are atonal or not.
Steve Schwartz
[Misattribution is very serious. Let's all please be very careful
to use correct names when attributing quotes to people, especially in
potentially volitile discussion - such as those we have here. -Dave]