Usage examples (9)

• But Chansons d'Édith Piaf has its exquisite moments, the first tune alone, "L'accordéoniste," providing a six-minute journey from atonalism to cabaret to swing.
• The textbook line is that contemporary European jazzers found their own identity apart from the American motherlode in a severe "free" atonalism (saxophonist Evan...
• Actually, there was a time when Ter Veldhuis, 58, dabbled with atonalism, but he said he
• His foursquare rhythms would be deadening even if he could bring himself to permit melody to heighten his unleavened academic atonalism.