Modern harmony, its explanation and application . 5 ^^ 62 MODERN HARMONY DEBUSSY, Chanson de Bilitis. 1° Whatever view we take of the tonal system, it is un-necessary to regard it suspiciously as a rival to oust the olderscales; let such people rather turn their eyes towards theadvances of duodecuple practice. Used purely by itself, the tonal system is very circumscribed. This scale is toomathematical and precise a product, and consequently toomonotonous in effect, to be capable of much development onits own lines. Its powers of modulation and transpositionare small indeed
Modern harmony, its explanation and application . 5 ^^ 62 MODERN HARMONY DEBUSSY, Chanson de Bilitis. 1° Whatever view we take of the tonal system, it is un-necessary to regard it suspiciously as a rival to oust the olderscales; let such people rather turn their eyes towards theadvances of duodecuple practice. Used purely by itself, the tonal system is very circumscribed. This scale is toomathematical and precise a product, and consequently toomonotonous in effect, to be capable of much development onits own lines. Its powers of modulation and transpositionare small indeed compared with the other systems. Its pureuse is limited generally to the shortest of characteristicsketches. Even when adopted for longer works, as Debussys Pelleas et M^lisande—where the rather strained milieu or aural vision, necessitated by the tonal scale, undoubtedly ^tio™! fl-ssists the mystic atmosphere of the work—the composer continually falls back to the relief of semitones. This is done by resolving the chords founded on the C tonal scale into harmony formed on the C sharp series, and
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