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tonality
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tonality \To*nal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. tonalit['e].] (Mus.) The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tonality is a musical system that arranges pitches or chords to induce a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, and attractions. The pitch or triadic chord with the greatest stability is called the tonic , and the root of the tonic chord is considered ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1824, from tonal + -ity .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music [syn: key ] [ant: atonality ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A comparison shows the painting to be executed with very much the tonality of the photograph, from exactly the same viewpoint. ▪ And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context music English) The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales. 2 (context music English) A sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre. 3 (context music English) The quality of all the tones in a composition ...
Usage examples of tonality.
In the existence of each of them we meet again, in various forms and tonalities, the same anti-Hegelian novelistic model, or the same antimodel: that of the deserter, the person who chooses not to confront the world anymore, to abandon the fight, to disappear.
A white amaurosis, apart from being etymologically a contradiction, would also be a neurological impossibility, since the brain, which would be unable to perceive the images, forms and colours of reality, would likewise be incapable, in a manner of speaking, of being covered in white, a continuous white, like a white painting without tonalities, the colours, forms and images that reality itself might present to someone with normal vision, however difficult it may be to speak, with any accuracy, of normal vision.
The monody and empyrical tonality of the ancients gave place to polyphony and harmonized melodies resting upon the relations of tones in key.
In the direction of the musically elaborative element we have the schools of the Netherlands and of Italy, in which absolutely everything of this kind was realized which modern art can show, saving perhaps the fugue, which involved questions of tonality belonging to a grade of taste and harmonic perception more advanced and refined than that as yet attained.
It should be noted in this connection also that not all scales present an equally good opportunity of having their tones used as a basis for tonality or key-feeling: neither the chromatic nor the whole-step scale possess the necessary characteristics for being used as tonality scales in the same sense that our major and minor scales are so used.
The characteristic compositions of Strawinsky and Ornstein, too, have no tonality, lack every vestige of a pure chord, and exhibit unanalyzable harmonies, and rhythms of a violent novelty, in the most amazing conjunctions.
Floyt could almost hear its eerie tonalities and deep, nearly subsonic hum.