

"Maybe I Should Just Write Tonal Music and Be Done With It"
OR: BEAUTY, TONALITY, AND THE PLEASURE CENTERS OF THE BRAIN Please permit me to tell you a story: Once upon a time, my husband and I were on the subway home from some thing or another and I saw on Facebook a violinist friend (Nicole Parks is the bees knees) had just produced a multiphonic on the violin. The conversation that spawned covered what a multiphonic is, how one is produced, especially on a string instrument, how one is notated, etc., which snowballed into a discussi