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| | Atonality - Open Encyclopedia |
 | | In the years that followed, atonality represented a challenge to many composers, and even those who did not prefer to write atonal music were influenced by it. | | | However composers such as Josef Matthias Hauer, Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, George Antheil and others wrote music which is described as atonal, and many more traditional composers "flirted with atonality", in the words of Leonard Bernstein. | | | Many composers began atonal music after the war, even if before they had pursued other styles, including Elliott Carter and Witold Lutoslawski. |
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| | NewMusicBox |
| | 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. | | | Both atonality and abstract art arose at the same time about a century ago, and, roughly speaking, arose among the same group of people—advanced European painters and composers who knew each other and thought they were moving more or less in parallel directions. | | | An atonal composition is made from the same things—the same 12 chromatic pitches, the same basic elements of rhythm (quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenths)—as a tonal work. |
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| | Each atonal work thus resides outside of the musical world of the canonical tonal works--in a kind of "other" musical world--while simultaneously relying on that tonal world for its effect. | | | Thus it may be that Schoenberg turned to atonality in order to disrupt tonal practice, but discovered in composing his atonal works a new musical environment that had structural possibilities of its own. | | | In addition (and to the extent one chooses to privilege the composer's hearing of his or her own music) it seems clear that as composers began working increasingly with atonality, they themselves would have tended to situate their own music more and more in the context of other atonal works. |
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| | Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Atonality - Dissonance |
| | 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. | | | The term atonal tells us what a piece isn't, but it doesn't tell us what it is. Many different styles and musical languages, whether harsh, lush, bland, intense, cool, ugly, or beautiful, can be accurately described as atonal. | | | Atonality figures prominently in the work of many twentieth-century composers. |
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| | TalkBass Forums - atonal music |
| | Bartok, as far as I know wasn't influenced by atonality at all - and is most famous for his systematic exploration of Hungarian folk music and its inclusion in his own music - his most famous pieces were composed, liek Copland's, about 20-30 years after the Viennese School's development of serialism. | | | Copland was no pioneer of atonality- but was a fan of Schoenberg when he was young - he is definitely most famous for his works which are very melodic and searching for an Amercian music - inlcuding elements of Jazz, the old West etc. | | | Hmm...well - Schoenberg is commonly credited with this - but he really developed "serialism" and the 12 tone row - in fact he hated the term "atonal" and refused to use it for his music - he preferrred the term "pantonal". |
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| | Epinions.com - Atonality and the Avant Garde |
| | While Schoenberg abandoned strict seriality in his later years (the piano concerto, for instance, hardly sounds atonal in some places, and the first movement opens in a waltz!), Webern would continue to develop strict 12-tone techniques, and eventually even tried to serialize other aspects of the music besides notes, including timbre, dynamics, and tempo. | | | That is, the contrapuntal developments of Schoenberg would have a direct influence on the compositional style of atonal and avant-garde writing -- counterpoint. | | | Though Berg frequently employed serial techniques (after all, he was a student of Schoenberg), it's very interesting because a lot of his music doesn't even sound atonal at all. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Atonal Music and Its Limits |
| | ...In spite of Schoenberg's claim that atonal music is "not devoid of gaiety or humor," a convincing atonal comic opera has yet to be written, and subjects of a noble or tragic character have not fared much better... | | | ...Schoenberg's first atonal pieces, composed after 1908, were written in a style which is commonly called "free" atonality... | | | ...More importantly, atonality has opened up new possibilities for musical expression by extending the range of human actions that music can imitate... |
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| | atonality - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library |
| | Atonality is also used by some to designate all music that has...Structure (1970); G. Perle, Serial Composition and Atonality (3d ed. | | | The communists of the early 20th century...fulfilling its emancipatory promise, atonality became just another dogma, an "official...economic relationships of a free society, atonality ignored the natural tonal relationships... | | | ...from the late classical through the romantic to the cusp of atonality and serial music. |
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| | His approach, like Perle's approach to Berg before him, is to infer, based on the superabundance of row charts and other pre-compositional calculations in the sketches for the twelve-tone works, that Schoenberg did not compose with pitch-class sets in his atonal music, since no similar materials have yet been discovered for those works. | | | Secondly, his discussion of Forte's segmentational criteria is based on an outdated article ("Sets and Nonsets in Schoenberg's Atonal Music" (1972)). | | | Most recently, he has turned again to more traditional Schenkerian techniques to explain the music of Porter and Gershwin, among others (in *The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era 1924-1950* (1995)). |
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| | NewMusicbox |
| | In your equation of atonality with abstraction, you made what appeared to me (and others) to be a sweeping statement against 90 years of 20th century post-tonally triadic musical thought and history. | | | I'm not the first to link abstraction in painting and atonality in music, as parallel historical trends. | | | Linking abstraction in the visual arts and atonality in music requires a fair amount of wishful thinking. |
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| | Classical Music F o r u m : Any composers here? |
| | I`ve composed for 9 years, and played the clarinet (my main instrument) for 10 years. | | | My compositions cover everything from complete diatonicism through to complete atonality. | | | On the contrary, even if you find something simple (simple as in small instrumentation) like Webern`s piano pieces ex. |
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| | atonality, serialism, free chance, indeterminacy, stochastics, clustering, eclecticism, collage, protocubism, ... |
| | Free atonality, serialism, free chance, indeterminacy, stochastics, clustering, eclecticism, collage, protocubism, neo-classicism, dada, neo-baroque, neo-romanticism, impressionism and expressionism all were touted in various quarters as the wave of the future. | | | atonality, serialism, free chance, indeterminacy, stochastics, clustering, eclecticism, collage, protocubism, neo-classicism, dada, neo-baroque, neo-romanticism, impressionism and expressionism, the future of modern music, james mchard | | | With this brave new book, James McHard pulls away all the negativity shrouding the word "modern" in the realm of classical music. |
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| | Tonality of Atonality |
| | Schoenberg never liked the term atonal; however, this is the term that has been since used to characterize his music. | | | It was the first step towards a style which has since been called the style of `atonality'. | | | Atonal music is a type of sound on a very high level; it defines a new musical timbre. |
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| | The Matrix |
| | Finally, the last few statements of the main theme are some of the most noteworthy thematic occurences I've ever heard, and its sudden atonality joined with the heroic theme is truly inspiring. | | | The Matrix takes an abrupt left turn from that perspective, using stark atonality to personify the twisted plot of this special-effects-loaded flick. | | | Davis continues his atonal style heard in all the other cues, but now with an added screaming chorus. |
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| | S A N F R A N C I S C O C L A S S I C A L V O I C E |
| | His 1992 Chamber Concerto No. 3 exhibits a technique melded from tonality, atonality, and even big-band jazz. | | | Only thirteen years after its premiere, Carter's "Penthode" has become a repertoire piece for larger new music ensembles and considered to be one of the masterpieces of our day. | | | Three of the works touched the disparate techniques of tonality, atonality, and jazz-influenced writing. |
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| | Gottfried von Einem -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Austrian composer whose operas and orchestral works combine Romantic elements with the more contemporary styles of jazz and atonality. | | | July 12, 1996, Oberndürnbach, Austria), created operas and orchestral works that combined the influence of the Romantic composers with the more contemporary styles of jazz and atonality. | | | His best-known works were operas that reflected the dark atmospheres of the stories that inspired them. |
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| | Bright Lights Film Journal Sexual Atonality |
| | Because it instinctively and suspiciously cast progressiveness, expressiveness, and experimentation in negative, binary terms, Schoenberg recoiled at the word “atonality”: “I find above all that the expression, ‘atonal music’, is most unfortunate — it is on par with calling flying the ‘art of not falling,’ or swimming the ‘art of not drowning.’” | | | The first obstacle remains, as it was for rule-driven Schoenberg, the problem of ill-educated, jaundiced audiences: they will not accept what is not comfortably established, and even good artists craft works intended only to flatter them (a spineless consonance) or affront them (a reactionary or unemancipated dissonance). | | | Atonal music, like God, is rejected because it is too complex; atonal sexuality is rejected because, like all devilish sexuality, it is understood too well. |
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| | atonality -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The reemergence of purely melodic-rhythmic forces as major determinants of musical form in the Expressionist works of Arnold Schoenberg and his school prior to World War I was a logical, perhaps inevitable consequence of the weakening of tonal centres in 19th-century post-Romantic music. | | | He is known especially for his passacaglia for orchestra, his chamber music, and various songs (Lieder). | | | Austrian composer of the 12-tone Viennese school (see atonality). |
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| | Tonality, Modality and Atonality |
| | Yet today his music is usually described as atonal. | | | Exactly what is atonal music if it has a tonic? | | | Webern was already writing 12-tone serial "atonal" music when he said this. |
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| | Music Section 4 |
| | With this, Schoenberg has put his foot firmly into atonality. | | | Atonal music, along with being the natural progression from the romantics, offered the means to do this. | | | Schoenberg's move into atonality has been called the most important event in music history second to the move to polyphony in the middle ages. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - atonality |
| | Other composers, such as the Austrians Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern, abandoned a sense of tonality altogether and began writing... | | | Coleman, Ornette, born in 1930, American saxophonist, who pioneered in the creation of atonal free-form jazz. | | | In tonal music, which makes use of diatonic scales, one... |
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| | The Muse at Sunset: Nihilism? Or apoapsis of rationalism? |
| | This is ironic when you consider that communist regimes always detested abstract music and persecuted its composers. | | | One of my positions was, and still is, that there is no truly 'atonal' music, merely music wherein the tonal associations are generated randomly or by some arbitrary process. | | | I held to the view that tonality in music was a function of the nature of our hearing apparatus and the natural physics of music, the overtone series, etc, that basically it was the 'natural state' for music. |
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| | Pat Metheny Group Listener Network |
| | There's other material he did as a guest artist that are also noteworthy, such as Dave Liebman's The Elements: Water, Kenny Garrett's Pursuance and Gary Thomas' 'Til We Have Faces..Feel free to email me for more info. | | | and i know not all of it is atonal but there are about 3 or 4 songs on there that have no tonal center. | | | Microtonal music will have tonic centers, but the intervals are smaller than a halftone. |
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| | Classical Music: theory of harmony schoenberg teacher? |
| | Forgive all the self references, but "I" am a pro jazz, lounge musician on multiple instruments. | | | He is an expert in alternative tunings - one of his ideas is that Schoenberg veered off into atonality because alternate tunings weren't practical in 1910, but this is where Schoenberg was pointing to in his Harmonielehre. | | | I am also very impressed with the late 19th century composers, R Strauss, Schoenbergs "Transfigured Night", Rachmananoff etc. I am not into atonality at this time. |
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| | Tonality and Atonality in Alban Berg's 'Four Songs', Op.2; Tucker, Gary (Assistant Professor, Department of Music, ... |
| | Tonality and Atonality in Alban Berg's 'Four Songs', Op.2; Tucker, Gary (Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, USA); Hardback; World Retail Store - English Books | | | English Books > The Arts > Music > Theory Of Music & Musicology > Elements Of Music (Eg Harmony, Melody, Etc) > Tonality and Atonality in Alban Berg's 'Four Songs', Op.2 | | | Alban Berg's "Four Songs", op.2 lies exactly at the boundary between "tonal" and "atonal" means of pitch organization, a boundary often taken as central to the understanding of 20th-century music. |
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| | Get "Music In Transition A Study Of ..." at your library |
| | Find book reviews of "Music In Transition A Study Of Tonal Expansion And Atonality 1900-1920" in Google. | | | Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality, 1900-1920 | | | Music In Transition A Study Of Tonal Expansion And Atonality 1900-1920 |
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| | Schoenberg and His Followers |
| | Learned by exchanging ideas and performing with friends | | | His major works were Lyric Suite for string quartet (1926), a Violin Concerto (1935), and two operas, Wozzeck and Lulu. | | | Atonality, which Schoenberg called "Emancipation of Dissonance," used dissonant chords without a sense of resolution. |
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| | Atonality |
| | Atonality in music composition exists when the establishment of a tonal center is deliberately avoided (not using the sets of whole-step/half-step patterns used in major and minor scales which puts music into keys) |
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| | Deviants |
| | Even those who are generally repulsed by atonal music may find it worthwhile. | | | The score release, like his other albums, is a home-made CDR with very professional packaging, which you can order from his website. | | | A blend of 2 styles characterizes the score - dark synth atonality, which is reminiscent of Alien3, and a more classical style, based on a string theme, which is quite excellent. |
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| | atonality |
| | Arnold Schoenberg was one of the first composers to explore atonality, from 1909, although Gustav Mahler experimented with it in many passages of his later symphonies. | | | Populist use of atonality can be found in film and television scores as background music for scenes of mystery or horror, although here it is only the dissonance (a small aspect of atonality) exploited for its ability to disturb. | | | This means that there is no pull towards any particular tonic note. |
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| | Blogger: Email Post to a Friend |
| | I'm reminded of when a Math professor at my old University wrote some atonal music based on some mathematical thingy he was working on. | | | Tonality simply feels more natural, but I am sometimes drawn to atonal music. | | | I just don't get much emotion or impact from most atonal music. |
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| | Essentials of Music - Glossary |
| | Atonal music moves from one level of dissonance to another, without areas of relaxation. | | | Statement of a melody in longer note values, often twice as slow as the original. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Structure of Atonal Music: Books |
| | Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern by George Perle | | | If one wants to truly understand the concept of atonal music, however, this book is not a good choice. | | | Close to a hundred years after the development of atonality there is still much bickering and fussing about the schools of thought on post-tonal language. |
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| | Music Course Listings |
| | A study of 20th century compositional techniques, including modal and whole-tone materials, quartal harmony, polychords, atonality, serialism and various rhythmic and metric procedures. | | | Laboratory teaching and selection of appropriate technical materials for all levels are included. |
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| | Atonality Music Web Links |
| | - Samuel Johnson Atonality We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. | | | -- Elvis Presley Atonality Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. | | | -- M. Reed Atonality "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. |
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| | Music 3812 |
| | Atonality, Serialism, and Recent Developments in Twentieth-Century Europe | | | Also, while this technique is closely compatible with atonality (since it treats |
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| | Andrés Gentry: The perils of atonality |
| | To me it just sounded like standard atonal foreigner Chinese, the sort of thing that comes out of my mouth all the time. | | | Posted by Andrés Gentry on 2004.04.12 at 03:22 AM in Humor | | | Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The perils of atonality: |
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - atonality |
| | Click here to search all of MSN Encarta | | | Search for "atonality" in all of MSN Encarta |
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