Get to know Atonal better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like tonal.
Atonal meaning
- Lacking a tonal center or key.
- Not tonal, lacking tones.
Synonyms of Atonal
Using Atonal
- The main meaning on this page is: Lacking a tonal center or key. | Not tonal, lacking tones.
- Useful related words include: unkeyed, tonal.
- In the example corpus, atonal often appears in combinations such as: atonal music, atonal pieces.
Context around Atonal
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Atonal
- In this selection, "atonal" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, modern, freely, compose, music, pieces and notes stand out and add context to how "atonal" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a prolonged atonal sound used and and some atonal music sometimes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "atonal" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with atonal
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Publishers of free jazz music and some atonal music sometimes eschew all courtesy accidentals. (14 words)
The atonal sounds paired with unusual drummings, very unlike western music tunes, stayed in his memory. (16 words)
In contrast to their abrasive, atonal material of the time, the band considered the song relatively conventional. (17 words)
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. (42 words)
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. (36 words)
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. (36 words)
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.
Common combinations with atonal
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: