atonal

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Most of the initial score’s lyrics were from the Episcopal hymnal and the songs were atonal.

From Seattle Times

Then the solo piano embarks on a sudden flurry of insistent strangeness, a sound unmistakably atonal in a brief 20-second burst.

From New York Times

Even today I’ll often read, for example, a composer’s program note explaining that a new chamber music piece written in a single 15-minute movement and an essentially atonal language is based on a five-note motif.

From New York Times

An Autechre track can be blissful or brutal, atonal or dulcet, pointillistic or enveloping, propulsive or hovering, minimal or maximal.

From New York Times

Especially when the smoke is accompanied by a deep atonal voice intoning, “To be human is to hide away.”

From New York Times