(Seriously, every Spanish-English dictionary I have says "atonal" is the same in both languages. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
His teeth clacked together in a kind of atonal rhythm. From Wordnik.com. [The Kaisho]
GROSS: Now, Babbitt wrote atonal music, among other things. From Wordnik.com. ['On Sondheim:' The Musical-Theater Legend At 80] Reference
The sound was raw and atonal, a primal wail, passionately pagan. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Test]
CROWLEY: Donna, I mean, was there sort of an atonal effect of this?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2002] Reference
He wrote serial music, twelve-tone, atonal music which is also spectacular. From Wordnik.com. [Copland: Early Music From America's Composer] Reference
Then she gritted her teeth and commenced a most distressing and atonal song. From Wordnik.com. [Cachalot]
Here was obviously a great future talent for atonal and dodecaphonic scores. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
Strangulated squeaks, beeps and atonal, dying samba rhythms scuttered into life. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Boccanegra; 63rd Aldeburgh festival] Reference
Critics at Salzburg Festival were unhappy that it wasn't an avant-garde atonal piece. From Wordnik.com. [How Is This "Objectionable?"] Reference
The musical background was now complex, atonal, impossible for the Tigery to appreciate. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
Blasting a painfully atonal fanfare, he announces the arrival of the First Lady of Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [WORST LADY?] Reference
But youve said that you didnt really like the atonal music that was emphasized at Harvard. From Wordnik.com. [Between Albums, Rivers Cuomo Digs Up Solo Work] Reference
But you've said that you didn't really like the atonal music that was emphasized at Harvard. From Wordnik.com. [Home Recordings From Weezer Frontman] Reference
The musical settings range from accessible and direct to atonal, abstract and highly coloristic. From Wordnik.com. [It's a Still Life That Runs Deep] Reference
From the sounds of atonal song, Rebus knew the marchers were upstairs, probably emptying the place. From Wordnik.com. [Mortal Causes]
Their cruel song rippled down the ocean, serenaded the auxiliaries with atonal sounds of mortality. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
Flatlines — — — - playing heavy time, to the tune of the next widow's atonal silent weep. From Wordnik.com. [The August Heartbreak Suite of Sorrow's Poems] Reference
I can write atonal, rough, tough stuff that they might like and think, wow, he's really far out, dude. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Paul McCartney's Choral Piece] Reference
There was silence, and then a cascade of descending notes and a surprising atonal chord from the stereo. From Wordnik.com. [A Dance at the Slaughterhouse.html]
The voice was talking a language I didn't understand at all that went up and down the scale like atonal music. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
Dreaming up uses for bricks and newspapers is not exactly on a par with, say, inventing cubism or atonal music. From Wordnik.com. [When Is a Brick Not a Brick?] Reference
But her father, Alberto Bruni-Tedeschi, is a composer of atonal music; her mother, Marisa, is a concert pianist. From Wordnik.com. [La Dolce Carla] Reference
Violins scraped and whined, tympani thudded like the beats of a dying heart, flutes played weird, atonal melodies. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
The melody that rose from the duar was light and ethereal, alien, atonal, and yet full of almost familiar rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Gate]
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