Saariaho’s "Graal théâtre" (Grail Theatre) featured violinist Samantha Bennett, co-artistic director of ensembleNewSRQ. It ...

Because of the ambiguity of key that results, many regard the Tristan chord as heralding the atonality employed by 20th (and 21st) century composers. The tritone features prominently in Michael ...

Polytonality Two or more tonal centers functioning at the same time within a musical composition. Atonality Music with no tonal center Serialism The process of putting pitches into a ...

The theory held that instruments can play together in different keys without becoming tuneless or exchanging the heat of the blues for a frigid atonality. (As the critic Robert Palmer pointed out ...

“I think my subconscious was hoping I would write a joke, say it out loud, and then hear it back,” she tells Them. “But it ...

students will explore and develop competencies in hearing, understanding and applying concepts of multi-timbrel transcription; chromaticism; microtonal intonation; polyrythm; extended modulations; ...

As part of Radio 3's Breaking Free season, Tom Service considers how to listen to the Second Viennese School, which developed from early expressionist ventures into atonality. Show more Breaking ...

A study of twentieth century music theory via a compositional approach relative to tertial, quartal, and secundal vertical sonorities, and linear combinations featuring modal and synthetic scale ...

Welcome to the raw, dark world of Alban Berg’s groundbreaking expressionist opera, Wozzeck.

I grew up listening to metal as a child, and the dissonances and atonality of much of that music prepped my ears to love ...

Schoenberg’s “Six Little Pieces for Piano,” Op. 19, from 1911, take free atonality a step further. Each is a wisp of memory, a hint of emotion, the smear of a theme — all six pieces are ...

Among Berg's works are some enriching pieces to get to grips with and in most of them, behind the atonality, are glimpses of the more conventional worlds of Mahler and Richard Strauss. Berg is the ...