Directory of Atonality Resources

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Composers who compose atonal music, which is defined by the "Oxford Companion to Music" as music with the absence of a key. Schonberg was one of the first composers to do this.

Subcategories

• Berg, Alban Maria Johannes
• Berg, Gunnar
• Cage, John
• Ohana, Maurice
• Schoenberg, Arnold
• Webern, Anton von

Resources in This Category

• Atonality, Information, and the Politics of Perception

  http://www.thinkingapplied.com/tonality_folder/tonality.htm
  The psychological basis of atonality.

• Symmetrical Melodies and Scales Yahoo Group

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SymmetricalMelodiesAndScales/
  Includes MIDI files of symmetrical 13-note all-interval-class/all-contour melodies, which are a conceptual basis for a new conception of tonality that transcends the archaic tonal/atonal opposition.

 

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