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How to Listen to (and Enjoy!) Atonal Music, Part 1

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Dissonance of Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense simply refers to a lack of a tonal center like G minor, for example. Other composers were experimenting with this kind of consonant atonality long before Schoenberg appeared on the scene. Mollar and Strauss wrote music with multiple tonalities at once, which often resulted in the music seeming like it had no tonality at all.

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