Atonality

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feminine noun (music / composition / aesthetics)

Definition

The property or character of a musical system or composition of being atonal; the conscious and structural absence of a traditional key, of functional hierarchy among scale degrees, and of a stable polar center (the tonic). In 20th-century avant-garde musical aesthetics, atonality represents the state of total emancipation of dissonance, granting each chromatic note perfectly equal architectural weight.

Bilingual Equivalents

  • Atonality
  • Non-tonality

Grammatical & Source Details

Inflection Type Feminine noun, singular only, taking standard academic genitive endings in structural musicology analysis.
Formation Neologistic loanword from French 'atonalité' or German 'Atonalität', built on the adjective base 'atonal'.
Spelling / Pronunciation [a.to.na.li.ˈta.te]
Source Lexicon of Advanced Musicology, Harmonic Systems, and Avant-Garde Theory

Contextual Usage Examples

RO: Această atonalitate extinsă din actul al treilea al operei creează o atmosferă psihologică de claustrofobie claustrofobă.

EN: This extended atonality in the third act of the opera creates a claustrophobic psychological atmosphere.

RO: Analizând partitura, muzicologul a remarcat o atonalitate pură, obținută prin evitarea sistematică a acordurilor perfecte.

EN: Analyzing the score, the musicologist noted a pure atonality, achieved by systematically avoiding perfect chords.

RO: Spre deosebire de politonalism, această atonalitate respinge complet ideea existenței oricărei chei muzicale.

EN: Unlike polytonalism, this atonality completely rejects the idea of the existence of any musical key.

Idioms & Phrases

Atonalitate de tranziție / Transitional atonality

RO: Fază compozițională târzie în opera unor compozitori romantici (cum ar fi Liszt sau Mahler) unde armonia tradițională se dizolvă treptat.

EN: A late compositional phase in the work of some Romantic composers (such as Liszt or Mahler) where traditional harmony gradually dissolves.

Atonalitate organizată / Organized atonality / dodecaphony

RO: Structură muzicală liberă de tonalitate, dar guvernată de regulile matematice și matematice riguroase ale tehnicii celor douăsprezece sunete.

EN: A musical structure free of tonality but governed by the rigorous mathematical rules of the twelve-tone technique.

Principiul de atonalitate / Principle of atonality

RO: Normă estetică modernă ce interzice repetarea sau accentuarea unui sunet într-un mod care ar putea sugera o tonică falsă.

EN: A modern aesthetic norm forbidding the repetition or emphasis of a note in a way that might suggest a false tonic.

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