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Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about

Post-tonal music theory is the set of theories put forward to describe music written outside of, or 'after', the tonal system of the common practice period

Understanding Post-Tonal Music. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-293624-X. Samson, Jim. 1977. Music in Transition: A Study of Tonal Expansion and Atonality

exclusively for use in tonal contexts while tonal center or pitch center may be used in post-tonal and atonal music: "For purposes of non-tonal centric music,

Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s when American artists began to paint landscape forms with an overall tone of colored atmosphere

scale) is a set of twelve pitches (more completely, pitch classes) used in tonal music, with notes separated by the interval of a semitone. Chromatic instruments

ISBN 978-1-4422-3262-4. "Principles of Pitch Organization in Scriabin's Early Post-tonal Period: The Piano Miniatures". Vasilis Kallis, Music Theory Online, Vol

Schenkerian analysis is a method of analyzing tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935). The goal is to demonstrate the organic

contemporaries were also working to establish serialism as a form of post-tonal thinking. Twelve-tone technique orders the twelve notes of the chromatic

In music, a simultaneity is more than one complete musical texture occurring at the same time, rather than in succession. This first appeared in the music