Antedating of "Atonal"

[Fred Shapiro]

atonal (OED 1922)

1911 _Musical Times_ 1 Dec. 777  Not only these soft 'atonal'
harmonies, but also the harsher whole-tone scales and aggregates ...
appear in several parts of 'Boris Godounov'.

Fred Shapiro


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