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<font face="Calibri">But why do you take this to be an offense? I am
glad that you cannot disconnect tonal functions from the tonal
plan. The question remains whether the tonal plan is the result of
the concatenation of T + S + D + T in this order, or the
succession the result of the tonal plan itself, meant to first
express and stress T, then D and S as contrasts to T? Whether, in
other terms, the "Urphänomen" (to remain with Goethe) is tonality,
or functions.<br>
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The reason why I put "functions" in quotation marks is that I
believe that the functions arise from the tonal plan, while you
believe that they preexist it – we obviously do not share the same
understanding of "function", and this is what the quotation marks
were supposed to stress: that there are among us different
understandings of it.<br>
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</font>Nicolas Meeùs<br>
Université Paris-Sorbonne<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 20/05/2013 15:12, Ildar Khannanov a
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<div>Dear List,</div>
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<div>wow! I've just apologized before Professor Smith and,
voila, I have received my own portion of offence. I am
OK, no apology is needed from Dr. Meeus, we are friends,
after all. I just cannot disconnect the "tonal
functions" (why in parenthesis?!) and tonal plan. Is it
not that the tonal plan of a tonal composition is, in 99
percent of cases, built upon T-S-D-T cycle?</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
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<div>Illdar Khannanov</div>
<div>Peabody Conservatory</div>
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