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atonal

Music having no established key
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It goes without saying that Cage is an atonalist the fullest sense of the word.
In musica bohemica ET slovaca the reception of John Cage's music in the Czech lands and Slovakia
Meanwhile, he repeatedly identifies Schoenberg and his pupils Webern and Alban Berg with the demonic atonalist composer Adrian Leverkuhn in Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus, who proposes to "take back" Beethoven's Ode to Joy once and for all.
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Whether we want to be serialists, atonalists, diatonicists, minimalists, maximalists, microtonalists, fractalists, or quasianarchists (even John Cage chose to use the I Ching), before we get down to work there are decisions to be made and questions to be answered.
Riemannian variations on a theme by Milton Babbitt

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