Incidental music

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• Hymn

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• Choral music

• Lied

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• Art song

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• Parody music

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• Atonal music

  Atonality in its broadest sense describes music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality in this sense usually describes compositions written from about 1908 to the present day where a hierarchy of pitches focusing on a single, central tone is not used and the notes of the chromatic scale...