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What does atonality mean?

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Noun
  1. (music) A style of music that is written without a key.
  2. (music) A passage written without a key.
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The move towards atonality is here not far away, but a hint of the 7th is still detectable.
He just wants metronomes, randomness, atonality, doubletime kick drums and clicks.
The first article, published in March 2000, was on atonality by a scholar at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
In the Troisième, it is the Intermezzo fantomatique, a disembodied dance at the outer limits of atonality.
It has elements of traditional folksong with some gentle ventures into atonality.
Moving easily between tonality and atonality, the music is undoubtedly of our time, yet can be viewed as a historical continuation from Bartók.

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