Usually means: Absence of traditional harmonic center.
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▸ noun:  The school of atonal musical composition

Similar:
tonalist, reductivism, formalism, compositionist, compositionalist, antiformalism, Schenkerian, anticlassicism, monadist, classicalism, more...

Opposite:
tonality, harmony, melodic

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Similar:
tonalist, reductivism, formalism, compositionist, compositionalist, antiformalism, Schenkerian, anticlassicism, monadist, classicalism, more...

Opposite:
tonality, harmony, melodic



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