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Old 02-20-2012, 09:15 PM   #15 (permalink)
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atonality - a term that makes no sense but somehow managed to become standardised through much use before anyone could argue the concept.
"Atonality" means the piece does not have tonal center, there's no root note. Generally speaking, a music piece (with a tonal center) has a key (a root note A to G#), a scale/mode (Major, minor etc), a chord progression (e.g. I - IV - V etc), and a melody (and the notes in the melody generally corresponds to the notes in the chord) and form how sections of the piece or song is arranged (art music: ABAB folk:AABB or pop music: ABACAB i.e. verse chorus verse bridge verse chorus). I'm not familiar with atonal music, I don't listen to it. So I'm guessing it doesn't have some of those characteristics of tonal music, how much I don't know.
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