Characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality.
1Ostensibly I am in another room watching a documentary about atonal jazz.
2The music I listened to for Property was very unpleasant, atonal music.
3Another time, when they booed an atonal piece, he repeated it immediately.
4A harsh, unmusical sound; not an instrument, but an atonal, discordant human voice.
5Julie Hill steps inside the loud, drunken and often atonal world of karaoke.
6The couple devoted two hours to a concert of atonal music.
7They weren't recognising playing atonal music in a song to give it that edge.
8The guns beat their heavy, atonal music into the air.
9A harsh, atonal scraping of air over vocal cords.
10Much of his output is intense, atonal and experimental.
11Her voice was atonal and shrill, a screech owl in my ear, Yoko Ono singing.
12There was a high, atonal singing in her ears.
13It was sometimes atonal, sometimes closely harmonic, but overall a strangely wonderful, beautiful, and powerful fugue.
14She thinks atonal music is something new.
15Tuneless, atonal, and yet strangely mournful.
16The sudden, raucous, atonal howl took her utterly by surprise, but her instincts knew what they were doing.