{"id":1,"date":"2011-12-16T06:10:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benstapp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-06-15T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:45:45","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benstapp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Graphic representations of Micro-Functional Tonality and Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.benstapp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tonalcompasscolor.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benstapp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tonalcompasscolor-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benstapp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tonalcompasscolor-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.benstapp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tonalcompasscolor-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.benstapp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/tonalcompasscolor.png 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.benstapp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dreamcatcher.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benstapp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/dreamcatcher-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I came up with Micro-Functional Tonality so that I could use a language that would address more advanced chord progressions, found primarily in late-romanticism, French impressionism and 20th century American folk music in a way that treated these idioms as part of a larger whole, and less as exceptions\/extensions of common practice tonality.\u00a0 These advanced progressions are also found in Renaissance music and Baroque music but they are often put in a category of their own, associated very loosely and unconvincingly to common place tonality.\u00a0 The term chromaticism is used often to lump these exceptions in a category that sets them apart from tonality.\u00a0 MFT (micro-functional tonality) treats non-traditional harmonies in the same way it treats &#8216;tonality.&#8217;\u00a0 The same system is used to evaluate both seemingly disparate systems.<\/p>\n<p>MFT (micro-functional tonality) supposes that tonal relations are really only established on a chord to chord basis and that a major or minor key is a bi-product of a more complex system of inter-relations.<\/p>\n<p>Besides my own private research into the subject, I also write music that demonstrates this system.\u00a0 In the end, however, I am humbly reminded that this theory is really only a musical, theoretical explanation into the working of my own compositions.\u00a0 I do however believe that this theory, which I use to compose, helps explain to me, in a straight forward way, harmonic techniques of other composers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-follow synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" 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