Neotonalism

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Neotonalism is a manner of musical composition which spans all styles, from early in musical history to the present day. It uses a wide palette of possibilities, sometimes incorporating atonality and tonality in the same score.^[1]

Composers of the 20th and 21th centuries are included in this genre. They extensively reuse tonality, after it was marginalized to a great extent by the tendencies of so-called contemporary music. Neotonalism is a broad movement that unifies and mixes very different styles. It is common founding great differences about styles between neotonal composers since they depend on the influences collected. These influences include jazz, film and ethnic music, electroacoustics and the atonalism of the 20th century itself. They confer not only a great richness to this type of composition, but a liberty of expression that was interrupted with the imposition of atonality in the second half of the century. There are many composers, who having started their works inside the atonal boundaries, they had come back to this style, including traditional elements that are widely welcomed by the audience.

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