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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.

Related terms
атональность
Synonyms
Examples for "atonal"
Examples for "atonal"
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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
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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