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- adverb In an
atonal manner; withouttone .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without tonality
Etymologies
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Examples
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The same way that he copes with everything – by atonally howling the lyrics at the top of his voice.
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Notice that there aren't any Yoko Ono songs in there – even Yoko Ono knows that a lifetime of solitude on a desert island is bad enough without having to hear a woman atonally shrieking Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow) four times a day as well.
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The classical composer of 1800 who somehow heard the world atonally, arhythmically, and to the accompaniment of falling trash cans and who then wrote a symphony in thirty movements on this basis -- this composer is innovating, all right.
Creativity, convention, and tradition Daniel Little 2009
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The classical composer of 1800 who somehow heard the world atonally, arhythmically, and to the accompaniment of falling trash cans and who then wrote a symphony in thirty movements on this basis -- this composer is innovating, all right.
Archive 2009-04-01 Daniel Little 2009
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They were hammered drunk, and played this song on a cheap boombox OVER AND OVER AGAIN, singing loudly, and quite atonally, with their Russian accents.
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Composers have been writing atonally — bye-bye, Western harmony — since Schoenberg in 1909.
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Going deaf listening to his adenoids rattle atonally.
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The song blends into something atonally sweet but unattended as I pass another shallow wash coming in from the right.
127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004
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The song blends into something atonally sweet but unattended as I pass another shallow wash coming in from the right.
127 Hours Aron Ralston 2004
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The song blends into something atonally sweet but unattended as I pass another shallow wash coming in from the right.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004
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