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atonal, a. Mus.|əˈtəʊnəl, æ-, eɪ-|
[f. a- 14 + tonal a.]
Applied to a style of composition in which there is no conscious reference to any scale or tonic. So aˈtonalism n., aˈtonalist n. and a., atoˈnality n., aˈtonally adv.
1922A. E. Hull in Musical Opinion Oct. 48/1, I have been working for two years at a system of non-tonal harmony, which I had long been unable to christen. Now, after visiting no less than seven foreign countries I not only find that the thing is widely known as Atonality, but [etc.]. Ibid. 48/3 Keyboard chord-writing as well as linear, tonal as well as Atonal. 1923Mus. Assoc. Proc. 1922–3 67 We find the principle of polytonality or atonality superseding the old key system. 1928Daily Express 25 June 10/6 Eugene Goossens himself said recently that ‘modern music composition has come to an impasse in its trend towards laboratory atonalism’. 1929P. C. Buck Hist. Mus. iii. 34 Nor as a means of destroying the key-scale as the atonalists of today are using it. 1930Mus. Assoc. Proc. 97 To write atonally in a harmonic form at present is to produce a thought ‘heterodyne’. 1936Scrutiny V. 153 Atonalism would seem to be an adequate medium for the expression of certain precious, morbid, esoteric sensibilities. Ibid. The fact that the works of the most relentless of the atonalists, Webern, rarely last more than a minute or so..is surely significant. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz Amer. (1958) xxiii. 330 He can teach almost anything..from counterpoint to atonalist formations. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 4 July 372/3 What began as atonality is now called dodecaphony..or..serialism. 1958Listener 18 Dec. 1051/1 Schönberg who was also writing atonally in such a work as the Five Pieces for orchestra. 1963Ibid. 14 Feb. 313/3 Luigi Dallapiccola, an atonalist who has remained faithful to his country's abiding concern for melody. |