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By which I mean Western music up to the early 20th century was not in a key, and that music in a key was regarded as strange and revolutionary. Here is an article about keys in music: http://www.studybass.com/lessons/harmony/keys-in-music.
In other words reverse the situation in OTL whereby Western music was usually in a key until the early 20th century.