Atonality
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title:
Atonality
text:
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th-century to the present day, where a hierarchy of harmonies focusing on a single, central triad is not used, and the notes of the chromatic scale function independently of one another. More narrowly, the term atonality describes music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies that characterized European classical musi
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Music that lacks a tonal center or key
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonality
date created:
2002-03-23T17:06:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T00:15:39Z
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