Examples Of Tonal And Atonal Music

[aMUSEd]

This seems to hover between tonality and atonality - but whatever it is a gorgeous piece

Yeah and it seems to me that after WWII the influence of the atonal composers can be found all over the place.

Jeanne Lee is one of my alltime favourite jazz vocalists - so talented (especially love her work on Blase with Archie Shepp)

[stanlea]

What about free jazz ? Some sounds tonal then moves to atonal (at least it seems), some are definitively atonal.

[rp314]

What about free jazz ? Some sounds tonal then moves to atonal (at least it seems), some are definitively atonal.

For quite a few Free means exactly that.

Sometimes, out:



Others, more in the tradition:



Quite often as you and others have pointed out they even move from one realm to the other within one work.

[Oberheim 8000]

Krysztof Penderecki
Symphony No 3

(There is Passacaglia, it was used in film Shutter Island)

Polymorfia

If you never listen this, try listen full composition.
Maybe similar to Threnody, but for me Polymorphia is much better.


Giacinto Scelsi (his compositions are like dark ambient)
Elohim


UAXUCTUM

[rp314]

Three examples of Schoenberg's journey from his early twenties Late Romantic period through the beginnings of the dodecaphonic period in his 40s.

Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) Op 4 (1899)



Five Pieces for Orchestra, Opus 16, #3 (1909)



Waltz from 5 Piano Pieces, Opus 23 (1920/23)

[jancivil]

What about free jazz ? Some sounds tonal then moves to atonal (at least it seems), some are definitively atonal.

For quite a few Free means exactly that.

Sometimes, out:

Others, more in the tradition:

Quite often as you and others have pointed out they even move from one realm to the other within one work.

Yeah, I was hearing some Sonny Sharrock and some Blood Ulmer, and they'll go total blues and back out.

[Sparky77]

Arnold Schoenberg was widely considered the originator of Atonal music.
Here is a good example of it (and a strangely beautiful piece):

[rp314]