atonality

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A passage written without a key
A style of music that is written without a key
Music which rejects traditional tonality Music which abandons the use of a tonic or key center to which all the notes and chords of a piece are related
Absence of a key center or tonic, music without a definite tonality
{i} (Music) absence of a key; atonal style of composition; alternative to the diatonic system
In music, the absence of functional harmony as a primary structural element. Probably originally a pejorative term applied to music of extreme chromaticism, it has become the most widely used descriptive term for 20th-century music whose connection with tonality is difficult to hear. Arnold Schoenberg and his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern are regarded as the seminal atonal composers; the serialism of their later work is often distinguished from their earlier "free atonality
The notes of an octave are played independently without a key center
Atonality music avoids any key or mode by making free use of all twelve notes of the chromatic scale Since all twelve notes are given equal importance, there is no pull towards any central tonic
the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system
avoidance of a tonic note and of tonal relationships in music
The absence of a key or tonal center in a musical composition
a piece of music is considered atonal when it does not rely on a specific key
a group of tones where none dominate resulting in the absence of a tonal center
Lacking a tonal center
The absence of any feeling of tonality
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