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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th century to the present day, where a hierarchy of harmonies focusing on a single, central triad is not used, and the notes of the chromatic scale function independently of one another. More…

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related to Cited sources · 266
Atonality → ACLS Occasional Paper, Adele, Alexander Scriabin, Alfred, Allen, American Council, An Analysis, An Introduction, Ansermet, Anton, Anton Weberns, Archiv, Arnold, Arts, Aspects, Atonal, Atonal Music, Atonal Resources, Atonalität, Außermusikalische Tendenzen
related to Further reading · 96
Atonality → Aesthetics, Allen, Analysis Symposium, Ansermet, Ansermet's Phenomenological Metamorphoses, Ansermets Polemik, Anthony Braxton's Cultural Critique, Anton Webern, April, Art Criticism, Aspects, Atonal Work, Beach, Benedikt, Bewegt, Carl, Chicago, Chicago Press, Context, Continuity
related to Controversy over the term itself · 11
Atonality → Arnold Schoenberg, Composer, Erwartung, Five Pieces, In, Milton Babbitt, Not, Orchestra, Pierrot Lunaire, The, There
related to External links · 10
Atonality → An Introduction, Atonal Music Analysis Archived, Information, Kelly, Lee HumphriesAtonal, Music Dictionary, Perception, Politics, Robert, Wayback Machine
related to history · 8
Atonality → Arnold Schoenberg, Franz Liszt's Bagatelle, Joseph Marx, The, The Second Viennese School, Their, This, While
related to Criticism of the concept of atonality · 7
Atonality → And, Composer Anton Webern, Composer Walter Piston, Donald Jay Grout, He, Schoenberg's, They

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music atonal new tonal theory isbn university press term tonality london forte allen schoenberg webern may musical edition second used

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Alexander Scriabininstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
Claude Debussyinstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
Paul Hindemithinstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
Béla Bartókinstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
Sergei Prokofievinstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
Igor Stravinskyinstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
and Edgard Varèseinstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
have written music that has been describedinstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
in full or in partinstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
as atonalinstance ofLate 19th- and early 20th-century composers0.80text
major or minor triadsinstance ofavoidance of traditional pitch collections0.80text
avoidance of more than three successive pitches from the same diatonic scaleinstance ofavoidance of traditional pitch collections0.80text

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