Channeling Quote by Susan McClary

Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal. (An "atonal"…

— Bela Bartok

There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of…

— Paul Gauguin

The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.

— Frederick Lenz

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

— Paul Hindemith

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians…

— Pierre Schaeffer

I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as…

— Alban Berg

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

— Gavin Bryars

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's the tug…

— Stephen Hough

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

— Vivek Shraya

Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions . . . Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.

— Ellen Hunnicutt

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky