Style of music disturbing to animals (9)

I believe the answer is:

atonalism

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'style of music' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'disturbing to animals' is the wordplay.
'disturbing' indicates an anagram (I've seen this in other clues).
'to'+'animals'='toanimals'
'toanimals' is an anagram of 'ATONALISM'.

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I've seen this clue in The Times.

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