The term atonality describes music that does not conform to the system of tonal hierarchies that characterized classical European music between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
German-born American composer who created a revolutionary kind of opera of sharp social satire.
Atonality
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Austrian composer who wrote atonal and 12-tone compositions that remined true to late 19th century Romanticism. He composed orchestral music, chamber nusic, songs, and two ground-breaking operas, Wozzeck (1925) and Lulu (1937)
The Fighting Temeraire
Austrian-American composer who created new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tine row. He was laso one of the most-influential teachers of the 20th century; among his most-significant pupils was Alban Berg.
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
