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The dancers execute extreme changes of tempo, from quick and energetic leaps to slow, gliding footfalls set to the surprisingly tonal music of John Cage's ``Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard. Whereas tonal music is hierarchical, twelve-tone music is egalitarian: all the tones in the twelve-tone row must be given equal emphasis, "thus depriving one single tone of the privilege of supremacy. Youngren, asserts "That jazz was, from its beginnings, tonal music, and is therefore basically European or Western in nature, is so obvious that it should not need as labored a demonstration as I am giving here. |
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