Tonal Atonality in Theses. Composer Kazarin

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Preparatory publication of terminology and scholarly apparatus for the concept of ‘Tonal Atonality’




What is ‘Tonal Atonality’?
A brief overview, using [some of] the terminology of this system, illustrated by the example of composer Vyacheslav Kazarin’s piano piece ‘The Sunny River’



Tonal Atonality is a new musical system of the 21st century, in which:

- there is no tonality,
- there is no mode,
- there is no harmony,
- there are no functions,
- there are no chords,
- there are no themes,
- there are no repetitions,


yet there is a clearly audible centre — not tonal, but acoustic.



• Acoustic Centre


The central idea in the context of TA: atonal music can have a centre — but need not be tonal.
This turns 300 years of music theory on its head!



Why this is important


Because prior to Kazarin, it was believed that:
- ‘centre = tonality’,
- ‘atonality = absence of a centre’.


Tonal Atonality shatters this false equivalence.



Acoustic centre:
• The centre arises not from harmony, but from acoustics:


- frequency repetition,
- register,
- duration,
- fifth-based anchors,
- textural role.


This is a centre without tonality.



Acoustic centre:
• Interval fields


Instead of chords — interval fields:

- seconds = stability,
- thirds = development,
- fifths = support for the centre,
- tritones = climax.



Interval fields:
• Texture as structure: texture is not a background, but a framework.


It [in this case, the functionality of TA, which may manifest itself differently in each individual work] is two-layered:

- top — a continuous line of intervals,
- bottom — sparse supporting notes of the centre.



Texture and Pianism
* Parametric form


Form is constructed not from themes, but from parameters:

- intervals,
- density,
- register,
- dynamics,
- stability of the centre.


This is the parametric arc A–B–C–B'–A'.



Parametric form
• Centric time


Time is determined not by metre, but by the centre:

- the centre is present = stability,
- the centre weakens = movement,
- the centre disappears = climax,
- the centre returns = the finale.



Centric time
• How does this music sound?


It sounds:

- like a river,
- like light,
- like breath,
- like atonality that has become comprehensible,
- like a structure that flows.



‘Solar River’ — a perfect example
Form:

- A — the centre is stable
- B — the centre weakens
- C — the centre disappears
- B' — the centre returns
- A' — stabilisation


How does the systematic nature of TA differ from others?


It is not:

- tonality,
- modality,
- serialism,
- spectralism,
- minimalism,
- post-tonality,
- the avant-garde.


It is a new paradigm, not a new style.



Why the system is important for the future


It provides:

- atonality with a centre,
- music with a new form,
- composers with a new technique,
- listeners with a new way of perceiving music,
- theory with a new ontology.



In brief: the formula for the system


Tonal Atonality =
- atonality + centre +
- interval fields + two-layered texture +
- parametric form + centric time


The main idea of this thesis analysis
Tonal Atonality is music in which acoustics becomes structure.



Arina Ryazantseva, art historian and biographer of composer Vyacheslav Kazarin
Russia, Moscow 2026

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