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Meanings of atonal in English

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atonal

Characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality.

      atonal
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      Examples for "unkeyed"
      Examples for "unkeyed"
      1
      McCaverty unkeyed his microphone, looked at his own fuel gauge and said, "Fuck."
      Countdown: The Liberators-ARC
      2
      They took longer than usual to-night; both of them were unkeyed and had to compose themselves to the affair.
      The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories
      3
      "Miss." Mark ducked his head politely as he unkeyed the security alarm and unlocked the door.
      Heart of stone
      4
      "One-Lincoln-Forty, ten-thirteen, officer needs help, Seventy-ninth Transverse at East Drive, shots fired." She unkeyed the mic and listened.
      Heat Rises
      Usage of atonal in English
      1
      Ostensibly I am in another room watching a documentary about atonal jazz.
      The Guardian
      2
      The music I listened to for Property was very unpleasant, atonal music.
      The Guardian
      3
      Another time, when they booed an atonal piece, he repeated it immediately.
      The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
      4
      A harsh, unmusical sound; not an instrument, but an atonal, discordant human voice.
      The thirteenth tale: a novel
      5
      Julie Hill steps inside the loud, drunken and often atonal world of karaoke.
      Radio NZ
      6
      The couple devoted two hours to a concert of atonal music.
      Anthill: a novel
      7
      They weren't recognising playing atonal music in a song to give it that edge.
      Radio NZ
      8
      The guns beat their heavy, atonal music into the air.
      The gunslinger
      9
      A harsh, atonal scraping of air over vocal cords.
      The thirteenth tale: a novel
      10
      Much of his output is intense, atonal and experimental.
      Radio NZ
      11
      Her voice was atonal and shrill, a screech owl in my ear, Yoko Ono singing.
      Brains: a zombie memoir
      12
      There was a high, atonal singing in her ears.
      The stand
      13
      It was sometimes atonal, sometimes closely harmonic, but overall a strangely wonderful, beautiful, and powerful fugue.
      The Shelters of Stone
      14
      She thinks atonal music is something new.
      Dayworld
      15
      Tuneless, atonal, and yet strangely mournful.
      Slow decay
      16
      The sudden, raucous, atonal howl took her utterly by surprise, but her instincts knew what they were doing.
      War Of Honor
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      Portuguese
      atonal
      Atonal through the time