Atonal music lacks a key center (it doesn't have a clear range of notes) and treats all notes the same while avoiding melodies that may it sound tonal. Atonal music is also known as 12-Tone Serialism.
An example of atonal music is Bill Evans' Time Remembered.
Kurt Weill
In the 1930s, he struggled with his work. Berg was denounced for having studied Jewish composer Arnold Schoenberg.
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Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer born into a Jewish family. He created the famous Twelve-Tone Technique, which refers to music using twelve classes of pitch.
Due to the rising Nazi violence, he fled Germany and spent the remainder of his life in the United States.
Wind Quintet is one of his best works. It was one of his earliest compositions to use the Twelve-Tone Technique.
He had no choice but to leave Germany. After traveling to Paris and London, Weill settled down in New York with his wife. Arguably his best work was Threepenny Opera.
It premiered on Broadway, but closed after 13 performances.
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Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-American composer born into a Jewish family. He created the famous Twelve-Tone Technique, which refers to music using twelve classes of pitch.
Due to the rising Nazi violence, he fled Germany and spent the remainder of his life in the United States.
Wind Quintet is one of his best works. It was one of his earliest compositions to use the Twelve-Tone Technique.
Kurt Weill was a Jewish German composer. He was denounced for his populist views and criticized by Nazis who would interfere with his stage works.
Weill had no choice but to flee Germany. He traveled to France and Great Britain before settling down with his wife in the United States.
His greatest work is the Threepenny Opera, which closed after
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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]
