- Uses an Exclusively or Almost Exclusively Diatonic Set of Notes
- What Makes it “Pan” is that Functional Harmony and Tertian Chordal Construction is Abandoned (os Subjugated) in Favour of Retrogressions or Non-Functional Progressions and Extended Chords and / or Added Chords
- Pandiatonic Still Features a Tonic” or More Properly a “Center”, which is Promoted by Elements Other than Functional Progressions (e.g. by Elements Such as Drones, Repetition, Metric Accent, Phrase Shape etc.)
- the Music Does Tend to Equalise Dissonance Such that Chord Structures Contain 2nds, Cluster etc., which have No Need for Resolution
- but Pandiatonic Music Tends to Favour Non-Tertian Structures, i.e. Using All 7 Notes of the Diatonic Scale but in a Manner Free from Classical Harmonic Restrictions
- e.g. Sly Stone “Thank you” Each Musicians Quasi Plays his Own Vamp of a E -Dorian Chord, i.e. the Bass has 1 Vamp, the Guitar Noter, the Voices Another, but All Doing an E-Dorian Vamp (thus Altogether Produce a Big E-Dorian “Cluster Chord”)
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