Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

atonalism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: atonal-ism
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The school of atonal musical composition

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"No matter how melodramatic the story behind the music might be, most audiences won't buy atonalism; Arnold Schoenberg could have been devoured by escaped circus tigers while he was finishing the Variations for Orchestra and it would still get booed off the stage."
"As a young composer, he wandered for years in the desert of atonalism and then, following the example of John Cage, he detoured through the wilderness of music based on an aesthetic of randomness and anarchy."

Etymology

From atonal + -ism.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: atonal

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

atonalisms (plural)

Synonyms

atonality

Questions

What does atonalism mean?: The school of atonal musical composition
Where does atonalism come from?: From atonal + -ism.

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