Ed Beach asks:

> Is it fair for me to assume that the majority of serious (for lack
> of another word) music lovers also cannot tolerate much of todays
> disharmonic stuff?

First, I don't think that you can call the atonal music of the Second
Viennese School the music of today.  Most of that music is pushing seventy
years old now.  Further, I don't think that if you look at the music
being composed by the current crop of composers that you can call it
either dissonant or atonal.  Neither Osvaldo Golijov, John Adams, Kevin
Putz, Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen to name just a few, write music
that is anything but tonal.

As for dissonance, there was a time when a minor third was considered a
severe dissonance and there were myriad rules for when and how to use
it.  Tastes change.

I for one, do enjoy some 12 tone music.  I am particularly fond of the
music of Alban Berg.  There is great beauty in his violin concerto, for
example.

Kevin

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