The harmonic vocabulary of Silvio Mix appears very varied and in general quite far from the concept of tonality in the classic/historical sense. The Composer himself comments on this in the pages of the newspaper “L’Impero”:

It is not a matter here of so-called atonality (which does not exist either in Italy or anywhere else – if this word is to be understood in the sense of lack of tonality – since even an ensemble of musicalized sounds tends to move in a given direction), but of polytonalit...