Editing Paul Moravec (section)

==Musical style==
Moravec has been placed into a group called "new tonalists" by the critic [[Terry Teachout]], who describes them as composers who are "neither embarrassed nor paralyzed by tradition. Rather they accept it as a given."<ref name="grove"/>  Thus, according to this analysis, his style is primarily tonal and neo-romantic. However, Moravec himself asserts: <blockquote>The term ‘new tonalist’ is a little outdated simply because of the passage of time[.] It had more relevance a few decades ago, when late modernism was dying or even dead. For my work, I regard the term only as a point of departure before considering each composition on a case-by-case basis. As a composer, I try always to make beautiful things, and I use whatever techniques and materials are useful for the particular composition at hand[.] Some of those materials are atonal or nontonal, but the overall harmonic context of my music derives from the tonal tradition, which after all is the lingua franca of Western music — essentially, Monteverdi to the Beatles and beyond.<ref name="NY Times 2007">{{cite news |last = Shattuck |first = Kathryn |title = A Composer Who's Weathered Some Tempests of His Own |work=The New York Times|date = 2007-04-22 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/22peoplect.html?ei=5070&en=217e8154f8231d13&ex=1183348800&pagewanted=all |accessdate = 2007-07-01 }}</ref></blockquote>

Critic [[Jens F. Laurson]] described Moravec's [[Pulitzer Prize for Music|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning ''Tempest Fantasy'' as "remarkably accessible music. Picturesque, conventionally beautiful at times, but without pandering to the ears’ lowest harmonic expectations. [It is] music that works with all the traditional tools from the composer’s workshop[,] which have changed surprisingly little since Bach - but Moravec uses them to create music anew." He named [[Federico Mompou]], [[Claude Debussy]], [[Paul Hindemith]], [[Francis Poulenc]], and [[Elliott Carter]] as clear musical influences in Moravec's music. He also noted a clear disparity between Moravec's music and that of [[minimalist music|minimalist]] composers [[Steve Reich]], [[Philip Glass]], and [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]].<ref>{{cite web  | last = Laurson  | first = Jens F. | title = Paul Moravec, Tempest Fantasy et al., Trio Solisti | date = 2007-07-18 | url = http://www.weta.org/fm/blog/?p=124 | accessdate = 2007-07-02 }}</ref>

Critic Victor Carr Jr. characterizes Moravec's musical language as "generally tonal--and although it's not consistently melodic, it's always accessible. More than that, it's highly engrossing[.]"<ref>
{{cite web  | last = Carr Jr.  | first = Victor | title = PAUL MORAVEC: The Time Gallery; Protean Fantasy; Ariel Fantasy | date = 2006-04-21 | url = http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=9939 | accessdate = 2007-07-06 }}</ref>