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  • noun Plural form of atonalist.

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Examples

  • I never thought of anti-atonalists as actively "selling" their position, but it makes sense; it takes just as much energy to deny something's worth as to proclaim it.

    Hub helmer headlines crix confab Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • With the advent of recording technology the music of the atonalists can be obtained and listened to with a frequency that Schoenberg probably never dreamed of.

    Hub helmer headlines crix confab Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • I never thought of anti-atonalists as actively "selling" their position, but it makes sense; it takes just as much energy to deny something's worth as to proclaim it.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Crawford has too much recently published about her to focus a dissertation on (gotta find room to work!); working on the other between-war American atonalists.

    Odometer Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • If by a woman, Miriam Gideon or Ruth Crawford both atonalists, of course?

    Archive 2009-04-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • If by a woman, Miriam Gideon or Ruth Crawford both atonalists, of course?

    American Voices Lisa Hirsch 2009

  • Paperno was no slouch when it came to contemporary music; he had played Shostakovich for Shostakovich, he was friends with Shchedrin, and he knew brilliant Ukranian atonalists I had never heard of.

    Out of Time Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • Paperno was no slouch when it came to contemporary music; he had played Shostakovich for Shostakovich, he was friends with Shchedrin, and he knew brilliant Ukranian atonalists I had never heard of.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • Closer to our own time are atonalists like Elliot Carter and Milton Babbitt, experimentalists like Harry Partch and Edgard Varèse, and tonally inclined composers like John Adams and John Corigliano who mix all sorts of textures, pitch arrangements and forms.

    A Sound Portrait Erich Eichman 2007

  • We have also the world famous European atonalists Schonberg and Krenek, the neo-Classic masters Stravinsky and Hindemith.

    Whatever Happened to "Classical" Music? Part II The Daily Growler 2006

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