I don't understand tonality. Instinctively I understand that atonal music is more dissonant, but I don't perceive it as "atonal", just dissonant. Is tonality just a false abstraction to help people write music? When people say that certain chords "want" to resolve to the tonic I just completely don't understand it. Maybe a movement from an unstable chord to the tonic creates a certain harmonic color, but I don't understand why we need tonality to categorize and use these different harmonic colors. Why couldn't we do it using some other system?
>i dont get it>they're wrong>change itEpic
>>129872913I'm not saying they're "wrong", obviously lots of beautiful, harmonically compelling music has been made using tonality. There's clearly use in it. I just don't get why we must think of music in that way.
I can't differentiate between tonal and atonal music, am I an earlet?
>>129872857you should give examples.it's weird to argue music is music, theory is too abstract.when you're literally using words to try to describ what non-traditional harmonic music you find enjoyable, instead of the actual music.
