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The 30 pages that link to Atonality, each with the reason it gives.

• ModernismRelated: Composers used it to challenge the harmonic expectations inherited from tonal music.

• SerialismNarrower topic: Serialism emerged as one way to organize music outside traditional tonality.

• Arnold SchoenbergRelated: Schoenberg became one of atonality’s foremost pioneers.

• ChromaticismCompared with: Chromaticism can enrich tonal music without abolishing the tonal center that atonality rejects.

• Chord progressionCompared with: It challenges the key-centered expectations that guide many chord progressions.

• HarmonyCompared with: It rejects the tonal hierarchy that underlies many conventional accounts of harmony.

• Tonal musicCompared with: It rejects the central pitch hierarchy that defines tonal music.

• Alban BergNarrower topic: Berg used atonal writing while preserving expressive gestures and traces of tonal orientation.

• Second Viennese SchoolNarrower topic: The school’s early music made atonality a defining compositional approach.

• Tonic (music)Compared with: It rejects the stable pitch hierarchy that gives the tonic its conventional role.

• Anton WebernNarrower topic: Webern’s mature works often abandon the tonal hierarchy inherited from earlier music.

• DissonanceCompared with: Atonal music weakens the tonal expectations that traditionally assign dissonance its direction.

• Jazz harmonyCompared with: Jazz can stretch tonal centers without necessarily abandoning tonal reference altogether.

• Chromatic scaleRelated: Atonal music often draws freely on the chromatic scale’s full pitch collection.

• Key signatureCompared with: Atonal music often lacks the tonal hierarchy that conventional key signatures summarize.

• Pierrot LunaireRelated: The cycle avoids a stable tonal home, intensifying its shifting moods.

• Musical modernismBroader topic: It marks one radical response to the weakening of major-minor tonality.

• PolytonalityCompared with: Polytonality retains multiple centers, whereas atonality avoids a stable tonal hierarchy.

• ModulationCompared with: Modulation depends on tonal centers, whereas atonal music does not rely on them.

• WozzeckRelated: Berg’s dissonant language portrays Wozzeck’s unstable world without relying on conventional tonal resolution.

• Entartete MusikBroader topic: Nazi critics treated its departure from familiar tonality as evidence of cultural decay.

• Ferruccio BusoniCompared with: Busoni sought expanded musical freedom without adopting atonality as a settled system.

• Tone rowRelated: Rows offer an alternative pitch organization to tonal hierarchy.

• Common practice periodCompared with: Atonality rejects the tonal hierarchy that defined common-practice harmony.

• Alexander ScriabinCompared with: Scriabin's late music approaches weakened tonality without following the same path as later atonal composers.

• Major and minorCompared with: Atonal music departs from the key-centered framework in which major and minor operate.

• 20th-century classical musicRelated: It became a defining option for composers seeking alternatives to traditional tonality.

• Expressionist musicRelated: The absence of a stable key helps convey the style’s psychological uncertainty.

• Music of Star WarsCompared with: The franchise’s signature themes rely on memorable tonal melodies rather than sustained atonality.

• Neue MusikRelated: It removes the tonal hierarchy that many Neue Musik works sought to escape.