Atonal and Dissonant

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Atonal adjective - Characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality.

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Dissonant and atonal are semantically related in noisy topic. In some cases you can use "Dissonant" instead an adjective "Atonal".

Dissonant adjective - Marked by or producing a harsh combination of sounds.

Usage example: a dissonant chorus of noises arose from the busy construction site

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Atonal and dissonant are semantically related in inharmonious topic. You can use "Atonal" instead an adjective "Dissonant".

Nearby Word: dissonance

As a result, some of the beats sound more atonal and dissonant.

Source: Music / Gang Starr
Its composers didn't follow the daring harmonic approach of Richard Wagner or Arnold Schoenberg and continued to compose "beautiful" music unlike their dissonant or even atonal contemporaries.

Source: Reconstruction
The piece tries to bring itself together back again at the end (with a repeat of the first melody), but utterly fails, resulting in an atonal, dissonant, and savage danse macabre ending.

Source: Dark Reprise

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