atonal
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characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality
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Because of their atonal music which uses tonal conventions harkening back to late romanticism citation and tragic libretti, Berg's masterworks Wozzeck and Lulu have stayed in the repertory and assumed increased popularity after his death.
Free atonality The twelve-tone technique was preceded by Schoenberg's freely atonal pieces of 1908–1923, which, though free, often have as an "integrative element.
It is typified by slowed-down atonal vocals with instrumentals that borrow heavily from the hip-hop scene and lyrics centered on illegal street racing and car culture.
Here, the Radiohead axman uses a warble of atonal guitar, a throb of Cliff Martinez-style ambience, and that familiar, eerie tangle of strings to chart the jagged ups and downs of an unstable mind.
They’re playing guitar solos, too, and those solos have that squiggly, atonal death-metal siren-scream thing going for them.
The bouncy "Out of Nowhere," comes via a show at the University of Cincinnati and centers on 's uncanny timing as his passages quickly vacillate between edgy and atonal to decidedly more fluid and melodic.