diatonic

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The musical language can be unabashedly brash and dissonant one moment, defiantly diatonic the next.

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Rather, you get a congenial, diatonic, rhythmically sturdy kind of conversation.

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“The apostles of the diatonic world,” he said in April, “have not produced work that measures up to the music of the past.”

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Sometimes the music reposes on what seems a soft, lushly diatonic chord, except certain instruments play nearly inaudible high pitches that lend sting to the sonority.

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It’s very diatonic; it’s thrillingly orchestrated; it’s rhythmically predictable; it’s affirmative; it’s transparently foursquare.

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