pieces with significant atonality

[aewanko]

Anyone have the kinds of pieces?



Edit: sorry for the confusion. fixed.

[mike_lang]

At the risk of the wrath of the modernists, who tend to be rather keen on the following composer:

KURTÁG

[retrouvailles]

Kurtág doesn't always fall under that realm. Some of his music can be quite nice to listen to. His Játekók can be a bit hard to listen to at times because of all the clusters, but this is only a small fraction of his very varied output. Listen to his "Quasi una Fantasia" for piano and orchestra. It isn't anywhere as dissonant as the solo pieces.

Well, anyways, on topic, this should get the original poster started:

https://poonhill.com/Scores/S054%20-%20Wild%20Mens%20Dance.pdf

It also depends on what you mean by "ear-splittingly dissonant".

[jaypiano]

Leo Ornstein, Sorabji, Elliott Carter, Michael Finnissy, Brian Ferneyhough, Iannis Xenakis,
Olga Neuwirth, Pierre Boulez (sometimes), Stockhausen (sometimes), Luigi Nono (sometimes),
Charles Wuorinen (often), ........

[ctrastevere]

Sorabji

Um...

[Bob]

Beginning band or beginning orchestra music?  It's written nice and tonal, but performed with a lot of dissonance.

Ear-splittling though?  I would say some of the computer music I've heard.  Just having a harsh timbre.  I don't have names of pieces, but it was... something more than just dissonant.  Static, white noise sounds.  Things like that. 

I find that slight out-of-tuneness harsher than nice chromatic-note dissonance.

[indutrial]

Is there a point to this thread?

It would be nice to actually discuss some of these composers and their works rather then simply lining them up under some blanket negative description like "ear-splitting."

Dissonance is part of the world of sound, hence it is part of music. Live with it. This is not much different than a group of painters identifying works that use squiggly lines and incongruent shapes instead of straight lines and accurately-defined polygons. Whoop-dee-do.