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Definitions of atonal in various dictionaries:
adj - characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality
Lacking a tonal center or key; characterized by atonality.
adv - lacking tonality [ adj ] : ATONALLY
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| Music Lacking a tonal center or key characterized by atonality. |
| not written in any key or mode. |
| characterized by avoidance of traditional Western tonality |
| Not written in any key or mode. |
| Atonal music is written in a way that is not based on any particular key. |
| (of music) not organized based on a particular note |
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| Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about 1908 to the present day where a hierarchy of pitches focusing on a single, central tone is not used, and the notes of the chromatic scale function independently of one another (Kennedy 1994). More narrowly, the term atonality describes music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies that characterized classical European music between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries (Lansky, Perle, and Headlam 2001). "The repertory of atonal music is characterized by the occurrence of pitches in novel combinations, as well as by the occurrence of familiar pitch combinations in unfamiliar environments" (Forte 1977, 1). * More narrowly still, the term is sometimes used to describe music that is neither tonal nor serial, especially the pre-twelve-tone music of the Second Viennese School, principally Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, and A |