Usually means: Absence of a key center.
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  1. atonality: Merriam-Webster
  2. atonality: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. atonality: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. atonality: Collins English Dictionary
  5. atonality: Vocabulary.com
  6. atonality: Wordnik
  7. atonality: Wiktionary
  8. atonality: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. atonality: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. atonality: Dictionary.com
  11. Atonality: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. atonality: Rhymezone
  13. atonality: FreeDictionary.org
  14. atonality: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. atonality: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. atonality: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (atonality)

▸ noun:  (uncountable, music) A style of music that is written without a key.
▸ noun:  (countable, music) A passage written without a key.

Similar:
abstract music, beatlessness, tonelessness, musiclessness, melodylessness, nonstyle, monophony, atonic, harsh noise, basslessness, more...

Opposite:
tonality, harmony, consonance

Types:
serialism, dissonance, aleatoric, indeterminacy, chance music, more...

Adjectives:
free, complete, modern, schoenbergian, early, chromatic, century, called, viennese, pure, strict

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Similar:
abstract music, beatlessness, tonelessness, musiclessness, melodylessness, nonstyle, monophony, atonic, harsh noise, basslessness, more...

Opposite:
tonality, harmony, consonance

Types:
serialism, dissonance, aleatoric, indeterminacy, chance music, more...

Adjectives:
free, complete, modern, schoenbergian, early, chromatic, century, called, viennese, pure, strict



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