Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about...

Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of atonality. The two composers invented new musical forms and new sounds. Ravel's...

key centers, a move often described (though not by Schoenberg) as "free atonality". The third, from 1923 onward, commences with Schoenberg's invention of...

took power in Austria. As a result, most Modernist music which featured atonality, dissonance, and “disturbing rhythms” were deemed as degenerate music...

drumming, featuring double kick and blast beat techniques; minor keys or atonality; abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes; and chromatic chord progressions...

more pronounced. According to Adorno, twelve-tone technique's use of atonality can no more be regarded as an authoritative canon than can tonality be...

although some date postmodernism from as early as about 1930. Aleatory, atonality, serialism, musique concrète, electronic music, and concept music were...

compositional styles, many of Liszt's later works also feature experiments in atonality, foreshadowing developments in 20th-century classical music. Franz Liszt...

are oil painting, printmaking, photography, cinema, musical tonality, atonality, jazz, rock, opera, and the symphony orchestra. Philosophers have invented...

system, which gave keys and chords their identity, pointing the way to atonality in the 20th century. Some music historians date the beginning of modern...

Bohemia. The 20th century saw many experiments with modern styles, such as atonality and serialism (Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg), neoclassicism (Igor...

Samson, Jim (1977). Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900–1920. New York City: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-02193-9...

known for their use of synthesizers "vying with post-hardcore's rabid atonality". Outside the Gravity roster, another band that played an important role...

Girls, and Rhys Chatham instead experimented with noise, dissonance and atonality in addition to non-rock styles. The former four groups were included on...

quarter of a century later. Britten's technique in this cycle ranges from atonality in the first song to firm tonality later, with a resolute B major chord...

Ambient house tracks generally lack a diatonic center and feature much atonality along with synthesized chords. The Dutch Brainvoyager is an example of...

composer Arnold Schoenberg in 1909. They represent an early example of atonality in the composer's work. The tempo markings of the three pieces are: Mässige...

Gardens breaks away from conventional musical order through its usage of atonality. The piece was premiered by Austrian singer Martha Winternitz-Dorda and...

1950s, many "Gothic and supernatural horror movies utilize dissonance, atonality, and unusual configurations of instruments to signify all sorts of anomalous...

clichés, no wave musicians instead experimented with noise, dissonance, and atonality, as well as non-rock genres like free jazz, funk, and disco. The scene...

Samson, Jim (1977). Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900–1920. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-460-86150-6...

According to Sondheim, when he asked Milton Babbitt if he could study atonality, Babbitt replied: "You haven't exhausted tonal resources for yourself...

that he had recognized but not fully embraced. He had also believed the atonality of serialized music to run counter to his desire to reach a wide audience...

tonal system to accommodate their ideas. After a brief period of free atonality, Schoenberg and others began exploring tone rows, in which an ordering...

Modernist music List of modernist composers Composers Genres and techniques Atonality Experimental Expressionism Futurism Microtonal Modes of limited transposition...

a montage of different styles, including folk music, popular song and atonality. Amongst his influences was Alban Berg's (1885–1935) opera Wozzeck (1925)...

to intensify the atmosphere created in imagery and themes. Dissonance, atonality and experiments with timbre are typical characteristics used by composers...

Samson, Jim (1977). Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900–1920. New York City: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-02193-9. OCLC 3240273...

divided into three (somewhat arbitrary) periods, based on increasing atonality: early, 1883–1902 (Opp. 1–29); middle, 1903–1909 (Opp. 30–58); and late...

training and his own improvisational skills. He expressed elements of atonality and fugue. Brubeck, with Desmond, used elements of West Coast jazz near...