0 Atonal music is written in a way that is not based on any particular key.
1 (of music) not organized based on a particular note
It is a method that, in its most rigorously applied form, avoids tonality and had been originally developed as a criterion for atonal music.
Its nearly atonal effect results from a mesoloop that repeats in other registers and keys.
Nowhere does this book claim to set forth a general theory of atonal practice whether for purposes of analysis or composition.
Shall we consider other musical elements or admit that closure, as we define it in tonal music, is simply not possible in the atonal realm?
In some interpretations of post-tonal or atonal music, analysts often look first to pitchbased elements such as harmony, melody, and voice leading to identify closure.
These developments involved pupils in practical music-making, including composition and improvisation, often in a free and/or atonal idiom.
Furthermore, practical, creative work had no more associations with atonal music by that time than with any other musical area.
When both parts are displayed together, the soundscape of the work is an unusual mixture of extremely low frequencies with atonal scratching.