" Ligeti, " she sniffed, checking her makeup in her compact as we headed down in the lift, the hammering, atonal notes climbing and receding above us.

“蒂，” 她一边嗅着，一边在们乘电梯下楼时对着小镜子检查妆容， 那敲击般的无调性音符在们上方攀升又消退。

After encountering some of Schoenberg's atonal works, Richard Strauss, a fellow composer, declared that his peer should shovel snow, not write scores.

在接触过勋伯格的一些无调性作品后，同为作曲的理查德·施特劳斯宣称，他的同行应该去铲雪，而不是写乐谱。

We had to build the chord structure to come out of that beat because it's got to match circuits, atonal baselines.

们必须构建和弦结构，使其从那个节拍中脱颖而出，因为它们得与电路、无调性低音线相匹配。

Its absence signified the advent of what came to be known as " atonality" (though Schoenberg did not like the term).

它的志着后来被称为“无调性”的时代的到来（尽管勋伯格不喜欢这个术语）。

In his " free atonal" works no chord has special status; musical phrases do not resolve in satisfying cadences.

在他的“自由无调性” 作品中， 没有和弦具有特殊地位；乐句无法以令人满意的节奏来解决。

But atonality, whether free or serial, alienated listeners.

但无调性，无论是自由的还是序列的，都会疏远听众。