Crossword clues for atonal
atonal
- Unkeyed, as some compositions
- Really hard to hum along to
- Out of key
- Not exactly hummable
- Musically discordant
- Like some avant-garde music
- Like some 20th-century music
- Like some 20th century classical music
- Like Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire"
- Like many Schoenberg compositions
- Like Berg's opera "Wozzeck"
- Keyless, musically
- Hardly melodic
- Hard to hum, perhaps
- Discordant, as music
- Discordant to many an ear
- Tough on melodists
- Schoenberg's musical style
- Off the scale?
- Off the scale, in a way
- Not written in key
- Not written in any key
- Music employing chromatic pitches equally
- Modernist music descriptor
- Missing a key concept?
- Like Webern's music
- Like Webern's "Six Bagatelles"
- Like unkeyed music
- Like Stravinsky's later works
- Like some not-so-catchy melodies
- Like some Hindemith works
- Like some Alban Berg works
- Like Schoenberg's "Moses und Aron"
- Like Schönberg compositions
- Like much 20th-century music
- Like many Berg or Schoenberg pieces
- Like many an Anton Webern composition
- Like many a Schoenberg composition
- Like many a John Cage composition
- Like keyless music
- Like Alban Bergs music
- Lacking a mode in music
- Lacking a key, perhaps
- Lacking a key center, in music
- Keyless, in music
- Keyless, as some festival entries
- In no particular musical key
- Having no musical key
- Harsh-sounding, to some
- Hard to tap one's toe to
- Hard to hum, maybe
- Hard on the ears musically
- Far from dulcet
- Ear-jarring, musically
- Without a key, in music
- Lacking a key, musically
- Lacking a musical quality
- Like Schoenberg's music
- Not keyed
- Like Alban Berg's music
- Hardly melodious
- Like some music
- In no particular key
- Like much of Webern's work
- Hard-to-hum, say
- Unkeyed, musically
- Like some modern musical compositions
- Jarring, musically
- Lacking a musical key
- Discordant, musically
- Lacking a key, in music
- Keyless, as music
- Like Arnold Schoenberg's music
- Like Berg's "Wozzeck"
- Lacking a signature, say
- Missing a key?
- Like much Schoenberg music
- Not in any key
- Like much avant-garde music
- Like the opera "Wozzeck"
- Like some noise music
- Lacking in harmony
- Like many Second Viennese School works
- Hard-to-hum, in a way
- Describing some modern music
- Like a von Webern composition
- Like some Oriental music
- Having no key
- Like Berg's music
- Like some 20th-century compositions
- Like Schoenberg's works
- Unmelodic
- Lacking a keynote
- Dissonant
- Like Schönberg's "Pierrot Lunaire"
- Without a keynote
- Disregarding keys
- Composed without using keys
- Not written in a key
- Area with mostly lofty houses working without a key
- Like Schoenberg, obsessive about limits of tempo
- Without a musical key
- Like much modern music
- Musically keyless
- Like music without a key
- Without key, musically
- Unkeyed, in music
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context music English) Lacking a tonal center or key. 2 (context linguistics English) Not tonal, lacking tones.
WordNet
Usage examples of "atonal".
Onstage, he spoke with a British inflection, but Carter guessed from the atonal twang he heard leaking through that Mysterioso was a Cornhusker or a Hoosier.
The plotless story is rather like free verse, or abstract art, or atonal music.
Nobody stopped work to listen, though, because Onofre had always been a lousy piano player, even with two hands, and he still tunked out basically atonal numbers.
The necks of the squad wove a complex pavane, sauroid mouths opening and closing in a constant low atonal hiss that was almost a chant.
That pounding, frenetic, unmelodic heavy-metal rock was a collection of monotonous chords and even more monotonous atonal rims, so soul-less and mind-numbing that it might have been the music produced by a civilization of intelligent machines long after man had passed from the face of the earth.
From the ziggurats along the sides a stirring, almost atonal chant arose.
A small drum-frame was beaten, an atonal pipe wailed and the troop formed up with magical swiftness in ranks of three: baggage carts in the middle of the troop with the skurrai packbeasts behind.
The garden was loud with talk and laughter, with the atonal songs of Peir-Dadeni and the Kyre.
Some of them danced and cavorted now in the roadway, setting up a ragged, tuneless chanting, formless and atonal, like the droning of huge insects.
Folks coughed and sneezed through the announcements, the passing of the collection plate, and a solo sung by an atonal teenaged girl.
It bubbled with glottal stops and atonal whistles, and was beautiful enough, though few human audiences would have been able to discern a lullaby.
We passed a ramshackle green building which from the sounds of bells and atonal singing rising from an inner courtyard gave the impression of being a temple.
The noise hit me like a power hammer: thumping atonal music blasting away against wildly overamped screeching from some androgynous singer wailing the latest pop hit.
He noted that Sivdar, usually an atonal public speaker, now employed a voice that was cold but seductive.
He walked aimlessly for a few blocks, pausing to look at a window here, a holographic display there, a street vendor selling exquisite alien stone carvings, a psychic forecasting the fall of the Democracy, a street musician of an unknown race playing an atonal but haunting melody on a string instrument of strange design.