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atonalism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | atonality |
| Type of | musical notation |
| Derivation | atonalistic |
Examples of atonalism
atonalism
He uses a grab-bag method of shifting styles too, from atonalism to Russian chant, that aims at a manic cartoon effect.
From the bloomberg.com
I would suggest much of the decline of public interest in classical music has to do with atonalism and its lack of expressiveness.
From the guardian.co.uk
No, the problem was never atonalism.
From the guardian.co.uk
Later however, he reacted against atonalism and his opera Boulevard Solitude includes elements of jazz and Parisian popular music.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I think classical composition in our stylistically pluralist age is far healthier than it was 50 years ago, when high-modernist abstraction and atonalism reigned supreme.
From the freep.com
With this heady, often shattering sonic fusion of rock's electronics and the classic avant-garde's aleatory atonalism, Trumpeter Miles Davis shakes jazz to its roots.
From the time.com
The lur, a Bronze Age musical instrument, became central to this research, which concluded that Germanic consonance was in direct conflict to Jewish atonalism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Atonality: the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system
- (atonalistic) of or relating to atonalism
- Atonality in its broadest sense describes music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality in this sense usually describes compositions written from about 1908 to the present day where a hierarchy of pitches focusing on a single, central tone is not used and the notes of the chromatic scale ...
- The school of atonal musical composition
