Atonality and Tonality

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Atonality noun - The absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system.

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Tonality is an antonym for atonality.

Tonality noun - Any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music.

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Atonality is an antonym for tonality.

Nearby Word: tonal

Like postmodernist literature, postmodernist music often likes to blur the boundary between tonality and atonality (dissonance), high art (classical) and low art (pop, rock music), between performer, composer and listener (chance music, conceptual music, etc...), and between musical forms.

Source: Postmodernism

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