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	The Classical Atonality Dictonary Page on Classic Cat
		While music without a tonal center had been written previously, for example Franz Liszt's Bagatelle sans tonalité of 1885, it is with the 20th century that the term atonality began to be applied to pieces, particularly those written by Arnold Schoenberg and The Second Viennese School.
		Their music arose from what was described as the crisis of tonality between the late 19th century and early 20th century in classical music.
		Atonal music continues to be composed, and many atonal composers of the late 20th century are still alive and active.
	www.classiccat.net /dictionary/atonality.htm (1938 words)

	Atonality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Atonality in a general sense describes music that departs from the system of tonal hierarchies that are said to characterized the sound of classical European music from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
		The word "atonality" emerged as a pejorative term to describe and to condemn music in which chordss were organized seemingly with no apparent coherence.
		Atonal music continues to be composed, and many atonal composers of the late 20th century are still alive and active.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Atonality (1452 words)

	Music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Music is a natural intuitive phenomenon operating in the three worlds of time, pitch, energy, and under the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody.
		The definition of music as sound with particular characteristics is taken as a given by psychoacoustics, and is a common one in musicology and performance.
		Music history itself is the (distinct) subfield of musicology and history, which studies the history of music theory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music (3000 words)

	Atonality -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Atonality usually describes compositions written from about 1900 to the present day, where the hierarchy of tonal centers is not used as the primary way to organize a work.
		This, combined with the parameterization of Messiaen, would be taken as the inspiration for (20th century music that uses of a definite order of notes as a thematic basis for a musical composition) serialism.
		Schoenberg, whose music is generally used to define the term, was vehemently opposed to it, arguing that "atonal" meant "without tone." For some, the term continues to carry negative connotations.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/at/atonality.htm (1006 words)

	atonal - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		- with no key: describes music in which the notes are not related by any mode or key.
		Atonality, in music, the absence of the system of harmonic relationships called tonality.
		In tonal music, which makes use of diatonic scales, one...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /atonal.html (88 words)

	AllRefer.com - atonality (Music: Theory, Forms, And Instruments) - Encyclopedia
		Tonality is a form of musical organization that involves a clear distinction between consonance and dissonance, a definite classification of harmonic results as more and less dissonant, and arrangement of tones in a scale that contains common harmonic and melodic functions and goal points.
		The gradual rejection of this principle has been apparent since the later 19th cent., when greatly increased use of chromatic harmonies in the music of Liszt, Wagner, and Richard Strauss and the use of nonfunctional harmonies in the music of Debussy almost completely obscured whatever basic tonalities were present in their music.
		Atonality is also used by some to designate all music that has discarded the earlier principle of tonality, whether organized in some other way or not.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/atonalit.html (430 words)

	NewMusicBox
		Never mind that this would be a silly old mistake, the old canard that atonal music is inhuman, "mathematical," or even (as Leonard Bernstein seemed to say in his Harvard lectures) a violation of the laws of nature.
		Atonal music doesn't go in for lovely mimicry of nature, as even Wagner did, though he was the most revolutionary composer of the 19th century.
		Atonal music, I suspect, came into the world far more unexpected (far more naked) than abstract art—though from writing this I've learned that the connections between these two key 20th-century artistic trends run deeper than I at first suspected.
	www.newmusicbox.org /page.nmbx?id=32nw01 (2112 words)

	NewMusicbox
		Music of the classical period, we say (and granted, these are stereotypes, but there's truth in them), is elegant and balanced.
		Free atonal harmony, if I follow this line of thought, might really be a heavily chromatic kind of tonal writing, leaving 12-tone harmony as something very different—though its historical descent suggests, once more, that the angst associated with free atonal music isn't all that far away.
		I'd love to ask Boulez—since he thinks atonal music depicts new emotions—what he thinks happened to the old ones, the love, let's say, of a husband for his wife, or a mother for her child.
	www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=3921 (4455 words)

	Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Atonality - Dissonance
		Atonality is the absence of tonality, which is the musical framework of major and minor keys, with chords and harmonies that are built on the notes of major and minor scales and that follow each other according to certain established principles.
		Atonal music, in other words, is music that isn't written in a key and that doesn't follow the rules of tonal harmony as practiced since about 1600.
		The “twelvetone” atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951) tends to be quite strongly and consistently dissonant, and a difficult pill for many to swallow, but Schoenberg's pupil Alban Berg (1885–1935) mixed atonality and dissonance with traditional harmonies and melodies to create a richly expressive personal style.
	www.cso.org /main.taf?p=1,1,4,1 (1109 words)

	The Music Chamber - Atonalism
		Whereas tonal music features one pitch (the tonic) that is more important than all the others, atonal music treats all notes as though they were of equal strength.
		Historically, Western music had been steadily progressing towards complete atonalism ever since the Romantic Period.
		An important figure in 20th century music is Arnold Schoenberg, who developed the twelve-tone system for composing atonal music.
	library.thinkquest.org /27110/noframes/periods/atonalism.html (405 words)

	Skytopia: World's most unanswered music questions
		The perfect fourth in medieval music is said to have been heard back then as a consonance, which was replaced with the third in the Renaissance.
		Is the appreciation of completely atonal music down to the rhythm, texture, timbre, dynamics, and patterns in the piece, and without tonality/harmony.
		Music theory and Art aesthetics - Article supporting the idea that music can be rated and evaluated objectively, outside of human opinion.
	www.skytopia.com /project/articles/musicq.html (1773 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for atonal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was the first Italian composer of atonal music, and after 1940 he increasingly used the twelve-tone...
		Probably originally a pejorative term applied to music of extreme chromaticism, it has become the most widely used descriptive term for 20th-century music whose connection with tonality is difficult to hear.
		Arnold Schoenberg's atonal influence on new music appears to be waning.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=atonal (697 words)

	233ass
		Atonality is one of the more important aspects of twentieth century music, and it is a major factor that distinguishes much of this century from any other music in teh Western tradition.
		The pitch aspect of atonal music requires a new vocabulary if the analysis of this music is ever to be more descriptive.
		It is recognized that atonal music often achieves a certain degree of unity through the recurrent use of a new kind of motive.
	www.sfsu.edu /~music/csg/420/420pc-sets.html (1312 words)

	What Is "The Matrix"?
		Music that does not use this fundamentally tonal distinction between chromatic scale members that are enharmonically the same is easier to analyze without the confusion of this system.
		The analysis of music based on parsing melodies and chords into these small collections of pitch classes is useful in non-functional music where no serial process is involved, and also it can be useful in analyzing the construction of a particular tone row and the atonal results of its use in a complex work.
		Consistently atonal treatment of the row requires that no notes be doubled at the octave, tonal melodic or harmonic elements (intervals) are to be avoided, and no note should be sustained to the point where it becomes a focal pitch.
	www.robertkelleyphd.com /12-tone.htm (3502 words)

	Tonality, Modality and Atonality
		Arguably, music in major and minor keys is also modal, but due to the need to separate these categories, it is best to reserve the term "modality" for music that uses other modes.
		Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), who believed that music was evolving necessarily and inevitably toward pantonality, where all tones are equalized in importance, tried to rush to what he believed to be its inexorable outcome and claim priority of the new "discovery" before Josef Hauer (1883-1959).
		Composers of atonal music try to avoid all reminders of tonal music, evading major and minor chords (tertian chords in general), scales, keys, dominant functions, regular rhythms, repetition, etc. This means that atonality is psychoacoustical; i.e., it depends, at least partly, upon individual sensibilities and subjectivity.
	solomonsmusic.net /tonality.htm (1105 words)

	Classical Music: Killed by the State by Gary North
		In a recent article on the looming demise of classical music records – we still call the CD-music industry the "record" industry – the author predicted that 2004 will be the final year for the industry.
		Atonal music is to music what subsidized art is to art.
		Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos.
	www.lewrockwell.com /north/north240.html (1605 words)

	Atonal Music and the Message of Sin - WELS.net
		I was wondering whether anyone in the synod had ever experimented with using the atonal music of Arnold Schoenberg or Anton Webern as a way to present the Law message (using the form, for example, as background music for the confession of sins).
		For churches, however, the dilemma was particularly acute because, while all kinds of music can be used in worship by choirs or organists or other instrumentalists as long as it is broken to word and sacrament, at the central locus of the people's song a folk idiom is required or the people can't sing.
		You mentioned "the lack of music to accompany the 'Law' part of our basic Law and Gospel message." Law is proclaimed bluntly in stanzas 2-3, yet the music that carries this law message is the same as the music for the gospel in other stanzas.
	www.wels.net /cgi-bin/site.pl?1518&cuTopic_topicID=65&cuItem_itemID=11707 (1211 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for atonality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He adopted atonality and later the twelve-tone technique of Schoenberg, although he tempered it with the lyric...
		, in music, quality by which all tones of a composition are heard in relation to a central tone called the keynote or tonic.
		In music that has harmony the terms key and tonality are practically synonymous, embracing a hierarchy of constituent chords, and a hierarchy of related keys.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=atonality (721 words)

	classical music - andante - more than meets the ear
		Atonal music isn't random; it has chords that have to sound a certain way, just as chords in tonal music do.
		But how do you know what that sound is? You have to play atonal music to learn that, and each atonal piece might have variants of its own, which might take a while to learn.
		Berg once wrote an essay called "Why Schoenberg's Music is Difficult to Understand." As an example, he used a fairly early work, Schoenberg's first string quartet, which isn't atonal at all — it's in D minor.
	www.andante.com /magazine/article.cfm?id=14540 (1695 words)

	MTO 9.2: Cramer, The Altered Octave as a Harmonic Unit in Early Atonal Music of Schoenberg and Webern
		The nineteenth-century theory of the Klang--which viewed the distinct tones of musical chords as reifications of the normally inaudible partials of a single complex tone--captured the sense that a triad could be perceived as a whole or as a collection of individual tones.
		Atonal expressionist harmony rarely features the triads of tonality, and its voices should not be expected to combine with the clarity found in common-practice tonality.
		Thus, in both common-practice and early atonal music, major and minor thirds frequently appear in parallel motion; and altered octaves often appear in parallel motion in early atonal music.
	www.societymusictheory.org /mto/issues/mto.03.9.2/mto.03.9.2.cramer.html (5804 words)

	Epinions.com - Atonality and the Avant Garde
		"Music is defined as that which is pleasant to the ear, noise as that which is painful.
		But I believe the point of the original author was this: though 20th century music is by and large "painful" it's still music and still brings a certain amount of fulfillment to the listener.
		His music, despite sound different (and being atonal, of coarse) is really remeniscent of Brahms in terms of melodic treatment.
	www.epinions.com /inst-review-5397-21A26E64-3A2F442D-prod2 (1043 words)

	Atonal music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Thumbtack Smoothie Electronic music producer /composer from San Francisco creating textured digi-dementia experimental electronic / IDM soundscapes surreal robotic lullaby textures atonal washes of delirium fractured melodies of all shapes and sizes.
		Ubieta, Enrique Innovator of the school of harmony "Bimodalism," which represents a contemporary alternative to atonal styles of composition.
		Symmetrical Melodies and Scales Yahoo Group Includes MIDI files of symmetrical 13-note all-interval-class/all-contour melodies, which are a conceptual basis for a new conception of tonality that transcends the archaic tonal/atonal opposition.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Atonal_music.html (434 words)

	Interview 13: Michael ATONAL Vick
		Although his music education began with the classics on the piano, he quickly discovered and pursued his passion for the guitar, and the rest is history in the making.
		In addition to recording music, Michael also gives master classes, performs at charity events and various live gigs, such as Bass Fight, is an activist for stem cell research, and is heavily involved in the promotion and organization of the annual NYC Fretless Guitar Festival.
		Atonal music basically has no specific key and tends to have a very Chromatic sense with irregular rhythms.
	web.mac.com /katchoolik/iWeb/katchoolik/Interviews/BDF213CA-1F7F-4A80-8A27-F5AAE01A120F.html (4301 words)

	Greg Sandow -- Schoenberg retrospective review
		(See my music page for proof that I've changed.) There was a historical myth that we all more or less believed -- that atonal music was an inevitable evolution from the chromatic harmony of the late 10th century, and that 12-tone music was an inevitable evolution from atonal music.
		Music, once a living art, gets reduced to mere structures of notes, and this method of analysis then spreads to the classical tradition, so even Beethoven is talked about that way.
		The view Babbitt and Wuorinen take of this music is so old-fashioned it's almost sweet, the only problem being that they still make their assertions as if there was no question of challenging them, as if the rest of the world hadn't moved to a new understanding.
	www.gregsandow.com /schoen.htm (4166 words)

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		If we play C and F#, for example, that ratio is 17 to 24, and has rarely (or never) been an interval found in any widely known scale, because it is considered dissonant, whereas the C and F interval is considered consonant with its 4 to 3 ratio.
		General human evolution has provided us with voices that are acoustically musical, and with ear receptors that are appreciative of, or attracted to, acoustically-musical sounds (i.e., not noisy).
		All those same capacities [regarding being able to distinguish noise from "musical" sound] also served to allow the development of musical systems to arise and evolve wherever there were curious people with time to play or experiment with the stimuli around them.
	www.greenwych.ca /atonal.htm (1133 words)

	[smt-list] Music and syntax
		Even the concept of "tonality" is not "a music", but an analytical way invented among other categories by musicologists, to characterize, and with difficulty even today, a special organization of tones.
		Indeed, this way to be focused on harmonic fixed sounds, the tones, is a quite particularity of the occidental music before 1945, from Guido d'Arezzo to the dodecaphonic Principle, and is even a strong reduction of how to understand the musical phenomena.
		So, debatting about "atonal and tonal music" is quite chocking, because it reduces a lot of music from different geographical origin, different time, and from different composers, to an unique organization of harmonic fixed tones, forgetting all the other categories.
	www.societymusictheory.org:16080 /pipermail/smt-talk/2004-June/002056.html (1033 words)

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