The absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system.
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Examples for "atonality"
Examples for "atonality"
1This string quartet marks the period of my first contact with the concentrated, lyrical language of western atonality.
2What made certain atonalities subjectively pleasing yet others com- pletely offensive.
3"It is a kindness." Her voice was deepening, becoming a morbid atonality.
4In music, the late romanticism of Bruckner and Mahler had given way to the atonalities of the second Vienna school.
Translations for atonalism