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Princeton's WordNet

  1. atonality, atonalismnoun

    the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system

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  1. atonalismnoun

    The school of atonal musical composition

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  1. atonalism

    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 narrowly, the term atonality describes music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies that characterized European classical music between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. "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".The term is also occasionally 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 Anton Webern. However, "as a categorical label, 'atonal' generally means only that the piece is in the Western tradition and is not 'tonal'", although there are longer periods, e.g., medieval, renaissance, and modern modal music to which this definition does not apply. "Serialism arose partly as a means of organizing more coherently the relations used in the pre-serial 'free atonal' music. ... Thus, many useful and crucial insights about even strictly serial music depend only on such basic atonal theory".Late 19th- and early 20th-century composers such as Alexander Scriabin, Claude Debussy, Béla Bartók, Paul Hindemith, Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, and Edgard Varèse have written music that has been described, in full or in part, as atonal.

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  1. atonalism

    Atonalism is a musical composition style that emerged in the twentieth century. It works without a tonal center or key, rejecting traditional hierarchical systems of pitch organization used in Western music. Traditional musical compositions are usually based on a key that gives a sense of resolution or return throughout a composition, but atonal music is characterized by a lack of this tonal gravity.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of atonalism in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of atonalism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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