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It's very dissonant, but is it atonal?

I hear keys in it (i.e., certain keys more in control than others) when I listen, but maybe that's just me. Didn't some theorist write a long time ago that even when we listen to atonal music (or, even more incredibly, 12-tone music), most of us as listeners (and I'm certainly one) will try to impose a key structure on it as we listen, even though the music itself is deliberately written to orient the listener AWAY from any sense of key structure. (There are some exceptions, such as the Berg Violin Concerto of course.) I guess I just never hear Bartok as being atonal in the sense that the composers of the Second Vienna School are atonal in some of their best known works.



Edits: 08/23/14

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