pantonal, a.
(pænˈtəʊnəl)
[pan- + tonal a.]
Used as a synonym for ‘atonal’, in twelve-tone music; including all tonalities; hence panˈtonalism, pantoˈnality.
| 1958 R. R. Reti Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality iii. iii. 70 The question of how in the realm of pantonality the problem of consonance and dissonance is treated. Ibid., 73 The first example tending towards the pantonal, the second towards the atonal concept. 1961 Times 6 Dec. 17/6 It is true enough that a crowd of Muscovites do not sing pantonal fugues. 1963 Listener 31 Jan. 220/3 In some sections I have expanded this pantonality into harmonic structures which vertically include up to twenty-three notes. 1966 Ibid. 19 May 736/1 Schoenberg disliked the word ‘atonal’, and preferred the expression ‘pantonal’, inclusive of all tonalities. 1970 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. (ed. 2) 640/1 Pantonality, pantonal, the inclusion of all tonalities. The terms are sometimes used instead of atonality and atonal. |