Associations to the word «Atonality»

Wiktionary

ATONALITY, noun. (uncountable) (music) A style of music that is written without a key.
ATONALITY, noun. (countable) (music) A passage written without a key.

Dictionary definition

ATONALITY, noun. The absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope