“Walton, who in early days dabbled in atonality, eventually settled for neo-romanticism and his Viola Concerto is a most elegiac composition.”

“He just wants metronomes, randomness, atonality, doubletime kick drums and clicks.”

“Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.”

“The grievous error he and his atonalist cohorts made was to dictate the path of new music to the exclusion of all else.”

“It goes without saying that Cage is an atonalist the fullest sense of the word.”

“There was also no piece of music, from medieval chansons to the most contemporary atonalist, that he didn't have in his vast collection of records and tapes.”

“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.”

“It was intellectuals who kept the spotlight on atonalism long after the public got alienated from it.”