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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A backlash to atonal techno-pop or angst-ridden thrash-rock?
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Emma was experimenting with atonal motifs on a xylophone and Vicky had been given a doll but had pulled the arm off.
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Even in the atonal phase, before he adopted serialism, he presented obstacles for his listeners.
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If a fight takes place in this room, the strains of disorientating Nipponese atonal music can be clearly heard.
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In atonal music, the harmonic relationships may be very complex indeed, yet they are undoubtedly there.
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Not that he has set out to terrify his listeners with atonal atrocities.
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Schoenberg's atonal phrases need to be expressed and caressed as much as those of Brahms.
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We can therefore create whatever degree of atonal norm we wish, just through our knowledge of the nature of intervals.