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Meanings of atonality in English

Russian
атональность
Portuguese
atonalidade
Spanish
música atonal
Catalan
atonalisme

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

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      атональность
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      Examples for "atonal"
      Examples for "atonal"
      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
      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
      Usage of atonality in English
      1
      This string quartet marks the period of my first contact with the concentrated, lyrical language of western atonality.
      Radio NZ
      2
      What made certain atonalities subjectively pleasing yet others com- pletely offensive.
      Terminal Compromise
      3
      "It is a kindness." Her voice was deepening, becoming a morbid atonality.
      The Reality Dysfunction
      4
      In music, the late romanticism of Bruckner and Mahler had given way to the atonalities of the second Vienna school.
      The Guardian