Andrew Stiller quoted Mark D. Lew:
>> MW shows 1922 as its [the word atonal] earliest documented written use of
>>"atonal". As the dictionary's prefatory material explains, this doesn't
>>necessarily mean the word wasn't in use well before that
and responded:
>Your dictionary is probably just following the NED, first edition,
>wh. gives the same citation. While I have noticed other occasions on
>wh. NED clearly gives too late a date for the origin of certain
>musical terms ("cotillon" comes immediately to mind), I suspect that
>we're dealing here with a word that originated in another language
>and was adopted by English relatively late. Certainly "atonal" would
>have been used first in German.
Ken Moore adds:
OED supplement has a quotation from A E Hull in 1922, saying that he had
visited seven countries to find this name for a harmonic system on which
he had been working for two years.
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