The music of Andrew Blyth

There is no doubt that the music that people will listen to in the future will be tonal or modal. Turn on the radio and the music you will hear is tonal. Switch on the television, watch a DVD, go to the movies, look at the concerts advertised in your local paper, look at what records are sold in the music shops-the music will almost exclusively be tonal. Tonal music is pervasive. It is the music of the present, past and the future.

Classical music needs new music. Few works have been added to the repertoire since the Second World War. That is nearly three generations of failure to find interesting new works by living composers. There is little need to continue recording music as the repertoire has largely been recorded. Recording companies for the most part can now simply re-issue the old recordings. This is an issue for composers, performers and listeners. If classical music is now the music of the dead it ceases to be relevant. If it is irrelevant it too will soon disappear.

 Regardless of the experiments in classical music in the last 60 years, new classical music in the future will also be tonal.  It is evident that atonal music will not enter the mainstream of classical music. Almost none of its has. There is no logical reason to pursue atonality any further. It is a dead end. But new music is important. That is why composers must adopt tonality in order to re-engage with the mainstream of classical music business. My music is my attempt to engage with the average classical music listener.