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Atonal

Atonal | Atonality

Atonal meaning

Lacking a tonal center or key. | Not tonal, lacking tones.

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Example sentences (13)

Arnold Schoenberg’s modern atonal music has a similar effect as playing Mozart backward — demonstrating its damaging character.

It’s not that composer Patrick Neil’s emotive, at time atonal notes didn’t highlight the action on stage, it did, in both the recorded portions and the live violin playing by Fanette Ronjat as one of the show’s Muses.

The atonal sounds paired with unusual drummings, very unlike western music tunes, stayed in his memory.

Because of their atonal music which uses tonal conventions harkening back to late romanticism citation and tragic libretti, Berg's masterworks Wozzeck and Lulu have stayed in the repertory and assumed increased popularity after his death.

Free atonality The twelve-tone technique was preceded by Schoenberg's freely atonal pieces of 1908–1923, which, though free, often have as an "integrative element.

However, he provides one example as a way to compose atonal pieces, a pre-twelve-tone technique piece by Anton Webern, which rigorously avoids anything that suggests tonality, to choose pitches that do not imply tonality.

In contrast to their abrasive, atonal material of the time, the band considered the song relatively conventional.

It is typified by slowed-down atonal vocals with instrumentals that borrow heavily from the hip-hop scene and lyrics centered on illegal street racing and car culture.

More recently, Dutilleux 's L'Arbre des Songes has proved an important addition to the repertoire and a fine example of the composer's atonal yet melodic style.

Publishers of free jazz music and some atonal music sometimes eschew all courtesy accidentals.

The hiss is a prolonged, atonal sound used in close range to other members of the species, when the animal is uncertain whether to attack or retreat.

Through the use of modulators with frequencies that are non-integer multiples of the carrier signal (i.e. non harmonic), atonal and tonal bell-like and percussive sounds can easily be created.

While most of the defeated chieftains were allowed to retain their positions, the Mixtec ruler Atonal was ritually strangled and his family was taken as slaves.