Life Without Chords? - Atonal Music

In the early 20th century, the system of tonal harmony started to break down. The vertical accumulations of notes became too complex for our powers of memory and recognition, and some have suggested that this led to a loss of meaning and even humanity in music.
In this lecture we will discuss expressive uses of atonality, and also the return of familiar chords to music, but outside the grammar that used to give them their logic.
A lecture by Marina Frolova-Walker recorded on 18 May 2023 at LSO, St Luke's Church
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
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Very interesting and close to our days

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[@soutteruk1]

I haven’t watched this yet, but did the system collapse or rather did certain composers ignore the traditional rules in order to create their own?