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单词 atonal
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Definition of atonal in English:

atonal

adjective eɪˈtəʊn(ə)ləˈtəʊn(ə)l
Music
  • Not written in any key or mode.

    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

Derivatives

  • atonalism

  • noun
    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.
  • atonalist

  • 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.
  • atonality

  • 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.

Rhymes

Donal, hormonal, Monel, patronal, polytonal, tonal, zonal
 
 

Definition of atonal in US English:

atonal

adjective
Music
  • Not written in any key or mode.

    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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