Wait there’s more.
I work as an editor in contemporary classical music. As a player I play lots of common practice period (tonal) music but also have a baroque specialism, so my head has to move in and out of various musical dialects.
A chord that in a baroque context is a devastating dissonance painting the emotional landscape of (say) a moment in the Passion story, in a Brahms symphony might pass as a consonance, a chord of repose. And in Schoenberg its meaning changes again. This knowledge was not explicitly taught to me, but is experiential.
It’s probably important to stop making a ‘tonal’ pigeon-hole, which I did in the post above, since it would have to include Gombert and Gurrelieder, and no group can survive that.
‘It’s more complicated than that’.
#tonality #classicalmusic