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Atonality in a sentence
Atonality meaning
- A style of music that is written without a key.
- A passage written without a key.
Synonyms of Atonality
Using Atonality
- The main meaning on this page is: A style of music that is written without a key. | A passage written without a key.
- Useful related words include: atonalism, musical notation, tonality.
- In the example corpus, atonality often appears in combinations such as: and atonality, atonality in.
Context around Atonality
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Atonality
- In this selection, "atonality" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, free and emerged stand out and add context to how "atonality" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include atonality emerged as and believed the atonality of serialized. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "atonality" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with atonality
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern. (14 words)
Ambient house tracks generally lack a diatonic center and feature much atonality along with synthesized chords. (16 words)
Atonality emerged as a pejorative term to condemn music in which chords were organized seemingly with no apparent coherence. (19 words)
In many art forms this often meant startling and alienating audiences with bizarre and unpredictable effects, as in the strange and disturbing combinations of motifs in Surrealism or the use of extreme dissonance and atonality in Modernist music. (38 words)
In particular, the Cantata for Makronisos, a pioneering piece in which Mikroutsikos experimented with atonality was extremely well received in international music festivals and an interpretation of particular note was recorded by Maria Dimitriadi. (34 words)
Notably from Tristan und Isolde onwards, he explored the limits of the traditional tonal system, which gave keys and chords their identity, pointing the way to atonality in the 20th century. (31 words)
Example sentences (10)
In particular, the Cantata for Makronisos, a pioneering piece in which Mikroutsikos experimented with atonality was extremely well received in international music festivals and an interpretation of particular note was recorded by Maria Dimitriadi.
Ambient house tracks generally lack a diatonic center and feature much atonality along with synthesized chords.
Atonality emerged as a pejorative term to condemn music in which chords were organized seemingly with no apparent coherence.
Donald Jay Grout similarly doubted whether atonality is really possible, because "any combination of sounds can be referred to a fundamental root".
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.
He had also believed the atonality of serialized music to run counter to his desire to reach a wide audience.
In many art forms this often meant startling and alienating audiences with bizarre and unpredictable effects, as in the strange and disturbing combinations of motifs in Surrealism or the use of extreme dissonance and atonality in Modernist music.
Notably from Tristan und Isolde onwards, he explored the limits of the traditional tonal system, which gave keys and chords their identity, pointing the way to atonality in the 20th century.
Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern.
The 20th century saw many experiments with modern styles, such as atonality and serialism ( Schoenberg and Berg ), Neoclassicism ( Stravinsky ), and Minimalism ( Philip Glass and John Adams ).
Common combinations with atonality
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and atonality 2×
- atonality in 2×