| The psychocultural ground of Schoenberg's atonalism and its complex procedures was the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire. |
| 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. |
| It was intellectuals who kept the spotlight on atonalism long after the public got alienated from it. |
| Less favorable are the writings of the Sydney critics Curt and Maria Prerauer, who believed in Schoenbergian atonalism and serialism as the way to the future. |
| Creston explored a variety of musical techniques and compositional styles, including atonalism. |
| He founded a school of cacophony which resulted in atonalism, and then, like his friend Picasso in art, left his school behind. |
