atonal

Should I make my art in the form a 180 minute long atonal sound collage that can only be heard by buying a custom piece of machinery that is installed in your house OR should I make my art form 55 minutes of music that can fit on a Compact Disc? Think of shipping containers.

Mmmmmm 180 minutes of atonal 'sound collage' hell, otherwise known as complete and utter self-absorbed wank. 99% of the music listening public aren't interested in hearing it.

Even Stravinsky's serial compositions arent so much atonal as they are post-tonal. There are relatively few composers whose work can be genuinely called atonal.

I would only disagree with her listing of Stravinsky as an "atonal" composer. Although he did mess with 12-tone composition a bit very late in his career, he is not usually thought of this way, as he very much dealt with tonality in the vast majority of his work.

And ironically this just continues the cycle, and these cocksure foreigners receive affirmation for simple, atonal phrases that native speakers must work hard to understand.

Hindemith develops an interesting tonal system that, paradoxically, includes the atonal music of Schonberg as well as jazz, to his chagrin, and other more modern developments. One of the nice parts of Piston's Harmony is that it makes for good bedside reading if you have a cursory knowledge of theory.