The beginning of the end of tonal music.
I get a pretentious drama..”vibe’ “from” “the chord”.
Is that A flat, flat 5th, flat 7th?
Sounds awesome on a Roland Integra 7 with a detuned Supersaw ;)
Not quite. Tonality lived on in popular music. The problem is that high classical music at the end of the 19th century had become so heavily saturated with chromaticism that it had almost nowhere to go but away from tonality. Serialism and atonality were arguably an ugly but almost next step. Fortunately audiences (and eventually composers) realized that entirely atonal music was simply not sustainable. This is why you hear more concerts with music of Britten and Shostakovich rather than Boulez and Schoenberg.