"tonally" - 1 õppematerjal

ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.

Features of the creative personality of Eduard Oja. A paper at the Music Museum conference “Heino Eller – 100” in 1987, p.13.  My music is based on a classical heritage and many elements of Estonian folk music can be found in it. I cannot comprehend the twelve-tone music up to now; it is so constructed, as cold as ice. I have pondered much upon atonality and found that there can be nothing atonal. All around us is tonal, nature is tonal; let us think of birds, they also sing tonally. There is no need to feel oneself old-fashioned composing in the traditional style. Music is always the same. If you have something to express with your music, the style does not play, strictly speaking, any role. It is, perhaps somewhat old fashioned; to hold oneself always a bit back, to control oneself, not wholly culminating; to keep a tight rein on. This tension is important for me in composing all my music.