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Meanings of atonal music in anglès

rus
атональность
portuguès
atonalidade
espanyol
música atonal
català
atonalisme

Musical structure; music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

Related terms
atonalisme
Usage of atonal music in anglès
1
The music I listened to for Property was very unpleasant, atonal music.
The Guardian
2
The couple devoted two hours to a concert of atonal music.
Anthill: a novel
3
They weren't recognising playing atonal music in a song to give it that edge.
Radio NZ
4
The guns beat their heavy, atonal music into the air.
The gunslinger
5
She thinks atonal music is something new.
Dayworld
6
I don't know that I can get enough leverage to pry the composer loose from her atonal music.
Dayworld
7
Joseph carves out a niche as an expert on composer Arnold Schönberg, the Austrian exile who originated atonal music.
Reuters
8
Too much, and we can't develop any expectations at all -which is why many people struggle with modernist atonal music.
BBC
9
The voice was talking a language I didn't understand at all that went up and down the scale like atonal music.
The Night of the Long Knives
10
The atonal music hit him with such force that he went back to the idea that had struck him 15 years previously.
The Irish Times