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 might be better for listeners and analysts alike to search for alternate notions of closure in atonal music.
With atonal or twelve-note music, the situation is quite different.
If we are to search for closure or something comparable in twelvenote or atonal music, it would be profitable to define what our expectations are.
Should we also grant the same license to atonal composers who employ alternative methods of achieving closure?
People in normal conversation speak in atonal cadences because to do otherwise would be personally tiresome as well as expose them to ridicule.
Though the atonal idiom prevails, the use of microtones and glissandi adds an intriguing richness to the language, again suggesting the theme of fading memory.
But the immediate effect of the music is not atonal.
When both parts are displayed together, the soundscape of the work is an unusual mixture of extremely low frequencies with atonal scratching.
