See Also: Northeast Passage(encyclopedia)
Northeast Passage, the(dictionary)
atonality(encyclopedia)
Northeast(dictionary)
Northeast(tourism)
passage(1)(dictionary)
passage(2)(dictionary)
Le Passage(tourism)
passage(dictionary)
PASSAGE(law)

Northeast Passage, the (oh) and atonality (sh)


Northeast Passage, the (oh)



a way by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, going along the northern coasts of Europe and Asia. It was discovered by the Swedish explorer Nils Nordenskj?ld in 1878-79
-see also Northwest Passage, the

atonality (sh)




In Music, the absence of functional harmony as a primary structural element.

Probably originally a pejorative term applied to Music of extreme chromaticism, it has become the most widely used descriptive term for 20th-century Music whose connection with tonality is difficult to hear. Arnold Schoenberg and his students Alban Berg and Anton Webern are regarded as the seminal atonal composers; the serialism of their later work is often distinguished from their earlier "free atonality."