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atonement
atonement Sin destroys the relationship between God and people, and atonement is the means by which a
reconciliation is effected. In the OT,
sacrifices and
offerings are prescribed and were well developed in the post-exilic period with a view to removing the barrier caused by sin which cut a person off from God's favour. Sacrifices were appointed by a merciful God for the restoration of fellowship which an individual by his own personal act was incapable of achieving. In the time of the
Maccabees animal sacrifices were thought to be supplemented by the atoning value of suffering. In the stories of Maccabean martyrs their sufferings are held to be an atonement not only for the sufferers but also for others. So the youngest of the seven brothers appeals to God that through him and his brothers the wrath of the Almighty which has fallen on the nation may be brought to an end (2 Macc. 7: 38).
In the NT atonement is connected with the
life,
death, and
resurrection of Jesus and he may have understood his coming death in atonement terms (Mark 10: 45). In Paul's letter to the Romans the source of God's mercy in reconciling mankind was Jesus Christ (Rom. 3: 25) and in the letter to the Hebrews the notion of sacrifice is employed; the defilement of
sin is cleansed by the blood of a sinless victim. The
blood of Christ's obedient and offered life is sprinkled on our sinful consciences so that we can then draw near to God with a similar obedience.
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Atonality and beyond.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 1/1/2008; ; 471 words
; ...music is a progression from tonality to atonality. There is no historical evidence for...irritated. There is nothing grating about atonality, but thinking makes it so. Any culture can easily assimilate atonality, but it may take time. STEPHEN SILVER...
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Atonality and beyond: the century when composers and audiences parted company.(Book review)
Magazine article from: American Scholar; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...resides in the human ear's initial reluctance to assimilate atonality--the free use of those musical intervals that jar the senses...Western music, of course, is a progression from tonality to atonality, from consonance to dissonance. The apex of tonal music...
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A composer returns to the limelight Music
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 1/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...follow Arnold Schnberg down the path to atonality. Most of them, in effect, suffered...and a second time because they resisted atonality, which eventually gained the stylistic...A hard man to please, he condemned atonality yet also panned Schreker and much of...
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Lifelines
Magazine article from: Musical Times; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...of `Schoenberg's evolution toward atonality', Simms notes that `Schoenberg based...hindsight of many, predictably) lead to atonality. This was the essence of Schoenberg...centre - a procedure incorrectly called "atonality".' This attempt at a full-scale...
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Pierrot le diseur
Magazine article from: Musical Times; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...discussion of the 'primal' nature of both atonality and speaksinging, he directly addresses...Sprechstimme combined with the revolution of atonality would have been 'too violent' for Schoenberg...fear of transition, from tonality to atonality and from singing to speaking. Peter...
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Heartfelt music of the condemned
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/4/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...eschews the iciness and abstraction of atonality for a more emotional and concrete musical...the millions of individual deaths." Atonality arose as an assault on bourgeois sensibilities...help but wonder if, in the long run, atonality wasn't the language of middle-class...
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The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg 1908-1923. (Composers).
Magazine article from: Notes; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a brief introduction to the term "atonality," individual chapters focus on groups...ambiguity in the book is the status of "atonality" as a concept. At several points...preceded and followed, as he writes, "atonality was n
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Early Modernism: Literature, Music, and Painting in Europe, 1900-1916.
Magazine article from: Notes; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...modernism and argues that expressionism, abstraction, and atonality define the inward turn to subjectivism, intuition, and the...modernism slightly from Paris to German cultural centers claiming atonality, expressionism, and Dada politics as originating east of...
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Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture.
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...1912. Ethan Haimo opens with "Schoenberg and the Origins of Atonality." Haimo's insightful analysis of the Harmonielehre (Vienna...s nonfunctional treatment of harmony logically leads to atonality through the use of chord progressions that do not follow functional...
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Songs from numbered days. (minimalist music)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/13/1988; 700+ words
; ...search by "serious" composers for something new unearthed atonality, a harsh new musical democracy in which all notes are equal...when eastern influence in the arts was strongest, that atonality gave ground to minimalism. Music and art began to reflect...
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atonality
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
atonality , in music, systematic avoidance of...twelve-tone music (see serial music ). Atonality is also used by some to designate all...G. Perle, Serial Composition and Atonality (3d ed. 1972); A. Forte, The Structure...
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atonal
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
atonal. Not in any key, hence atonality. Schoenberg preferred the term...denoting synthesis of all keys. Atonality is usually applied where there is...independently, unrelated to a key centre. Atonality is foreshadowed in the mus. of...
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Seeger, Ruth Porter Crawford
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...and symphonies. His later and more complex works exhibited atonality, a method of musical composition that rejects the principles...Rudhyar and Cowell encouraged Seeger's leanings toward atonality. Seeger developed a professional relationship with Cowell...
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Music
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...definite key; dodecaphony. 2. the music so written. Also atonality . —atonalist , n. — atonal, atonalistic...employing the twelvetone scale. Also called dodecatonality , atonality . —dodecaphonist , n. —dodecaphonic...
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Alban Berg
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Later Berg himself taught privately in Vienna. He adopted atonality and later the twelve-tone technique of Schoenberg, although...chner; Berlin, 1925), written in a free atonal style (see atonality ) with occasional intrusions of tonality, aroused strenuous...
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