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Definition of atonal in English: atonaladjective eɪˈtəʊn(ə)ləˈtəʊn(ə)l Music Not written in any key or mode. 〔乐〕无调性的 atonal music may be written by obscuring tonal structures or by ignoring conventional harmonies altogether Example sentencesExamples - In fact, it reminds me very much of Schoenberg's freely atonal music of roughly twenty years previous.
- This commitment to rigorously atonal music, planned and performed as a separate entity from the choreography, is at the core of Cunningham's radicalism.
- This is an umbrella term for a group of musicians in Japan whose music is primarily atonal, noisy, improvised and loud.
- Not one to experiment in the emerging environment of atonal and neo-classical music, his old-fashioned compositions were swept aside well before his death.
- Why do you think audiences have trouble with modern or atonal classical music?
- Brecht's words, juxtaposed against Weill's music, with its atonal harmonies and angular lines, venomously satirized the state of affairs.
- Fifty-five years after his death, Anton Webern still leads listeners through a musical underworld where even dodecaphonic and atonal rules simply don't apply.
- When the lectures were first delivered, Bernstein's rejection of atonal music deeply offended many avant-garde composers.
Synonyms inharmonious, disharmonious, discordant, unmelodious, tuneless, off-key, cacophonous
Derivativesnoun Music The psychocultural ground of Schoenberg's atonalism and its complex procedures was the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Example sentencesExamples - He founded a school of cacophony which resulted in atonalism, and then, like his friend Picasso in art, left his school behind.
- He would experiment with Schoenberg-style atonalism before embracing tonal and populist elements (especially American jazz).
- It was intellectuals who kept the spotlight on atonalism long after the public got alienated from it.
- Creston explored a variety of musical techniques and compositional styles, including atonalism.
- Lambert isn't against atonalism, and admires Berg a great deal, but he's against any sort of dogmatism, and the atonalists had become dogmatic even by then.
noun Music His fondness for chromaticism was such that Schoenberg suspected he would soon join the ranks of the atonalists, but for Reger chromaticism was a means of expanding the resources of tonality, not a harbinger of its imminent collapse. Example sentencesExamples - The grievous error he and his atonalist cohorts made was to dictate the path of new music to the exclusion of all else.
- If a colleague dropped atonal writing, the atonalists saw this as a threatening refusal to validate their own work.
- The serialists / atonalists wrapped themselves in quasi-mathematical systems at the expense of the subjective, though they insisted that the works were meant to be expressive.
- Talman would also have us believe that somehow, serialists and atonalists could bury expression in their music by piling on the mathematical base on which their music was founded.
nouneɪtəʊˈnalɪti Music Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms. Example sentencesExamples - It has elements of traditional folksong with some gentle ventures into atonality.
- As Schoenberg said, atonality is rejected not because it is ugly, but because it is misunderstood.
- I compared him with his colleague Milhaud, whose deeply biting satire and occasional ventures into atonality took him in other directions, in a worldly sense making his music astringent.
- Walton, who in early days dabbled in atonality, eventually settled for neo-romanticism and his Viola Concerto is a most elegiac composition.
- He does not like atonality and caused a big stir when he created an alter-ego for himself, Van den Budenmeyer, as a newly discovered classical composer from a few centuries ago.
- Eschewing schools and musical fashions, he wrote a great deal of music which is seldom heard, exploring bitonalites and partly delving into the realm of atonality.
- Webern makes the move to free atonality at roughly the same time Schoenberg does and with very much the same result: a long creative silence.
RhymesDonal, hormonal, Monel, patronal, polytonal, tonal, zonal Definition of atonal in US English: atonaladjective Music Not written in any key or mode. 〔乐〕无调性的 atonal music may be written by obscuring tonal structures or by ignoring conventional harmonies altogether Example sentencesExamples - This is an umbrella term for a group of musicians in Japan whose music is primarily atonal, noisy, improvised and loud.
- Not one to experiment in the emerging environment of atonal and neo-classical music, his old-fashioned compositions were swept aside well before his death.
- When the lectures were first delivered, Bernstein's rejection of atonal music deeply offended many avant-garde composers.
- Brecht's words, juxtaposed against Weill's music, with its atonal harmonies and angular lines, venomously satirized the state of affairs.
- Why do you think audiences have trouble with modern or atonal classical music?
- This commitment to rigorously atonal music, planned and performed as a separate entity from the choreography, is at the core of Cunningham's radicalism.
- In fact, it reminds me very much of Schoenberg's freely atonal music of roughly twenty years previous.
- Fifty-five years after his death, Anton Webern still leads listeners through a musical underworld where even dodecaphonic and atonal rules simply don't apply.
Synonyms inharmonious, disharmonious, discordant, unmelodious, tuneless, off-key, cacophonous
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