Topic summary
Musical modernism
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Modernism (music).
Definitions
Eero Tarasti defines musical modernism directly in terms of "the dissolution of the traditional tonality and transformation of the very foundations of tonal language, searching for new models in atonalism, polytonalism or other forms of altered tonality", which took place around the turn of the century. Other scholars such as James Hepokoski, J. P. E. Harper-Scott, Daniel Grimley, Annika Forkert, Laurenz Lütteken and Sebastian Wedler have argued for a broader understanding of turn-of-the-century musical modernism, one that is not predominantly defined by the historiographical narrative of the emancipation of dissonance.