atonalist


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a·ton·a·list

 (ā-tō′nə-lĭst)
n.
One who composes atonal music.
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atonalist

(eɪˈtəʊnəlɪst)
n
a composer who composes without knowingly or being aware of alluding to a particular tone or scale
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It goes without saying that Cage is an atonalist the fullest sense of the word.
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These men wrote powerful and influential music, and they also form a spectrum of musical possibilities: Schoenberg, the often dissonant and forbidding atonalist; Stravinsky, who started as a Russian Romantic, turned neoprimitive, turned neoclassicist, and finally took up Schoenberg's technique after that rival was safely dead; Bartok, with his Hungarian folk accent and a style that embraced consonance and dissonance, tonality and atonality; and Webern, who made Sehoenberg's 12-tone system more systematic still.
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There was also no piece of music, from medieval chansons to the most contemporary atonalist, that he didn't have in his vast collection of records and tapes.
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