atonality

They represent an early example of atonality in the composer's work.

And words like atonality mean different things to different people these days.

If atonality was now in some sense the truth, he preferred illusion.

These works are precursors of atonality and amazing for the times in which they were written.

"The score has a little bit of everything - jazz, country and atonality," he said.

His music now broke all ties with the past and leapt into the free fall of atonality.

The codification of atonality, however, was not simply one more step in an evolutionary process.

They come before abstraction, atonality, anomie and the cult of difficulty.

Berg's Sonata, a student work written before he embraced atonality, is not often heard.

His early music suggests that he was there with Schoenberg in the warm-up for atonality.

Atonality and polytonality are among the techniques used in his later works.

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

However, he found the atonality of serialized music to run counter to his desire to reach a wide audience.

For no matter how well or badly one responds to its committed atonality, the power and economy of this music are irrefutable.

The music, which skirts atonality, is fervid, ironic and agitated.

In the 1960s his music shifted toward atonality, however he never abandoned tonality.

In his later years, he even relied on atonality and tried his hand at 12-note composition"

It may be described as a metanarrative to justify atonality.

In the years before his death his style drifted towards atonality and modernism.

But because realism and the preservation of Chinese music remained official policy, experimental efforts like atonality were criticized.

I didn't throw over the expressionistic aspects of atonality.

But he did not follow Schoenberg into atonality.

At times, the work seemed a deft pardoy of academic atonality.

(Strange how history can so quickly turn defiant atonality like this into a period piece.)

With atonality so much in the air, it was inevitable that some composer would find a way to turn it into a method.