How To Use Tonal In A Sentence
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Lambert isn't against atonalism, and admires Berg a great deal, but he's against any sort of dogmatism, and the atonalists had become dogmatic even by then.
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Eschewing schools and musical fashions, he wrote a great deal of music which is seldom heard, exploring bitonalites and partly delving into the realm of atonality.
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There are, true, a few tonal changes: the jokes are jokier, the touches of malice heavier, and she revels more obviously than before in the playfulness she brings to her performances.
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One reason for his relative obscurity has been the general unavailability of his music: his works remained unpublished during his lifetime and, apart from some ‘easy’ tonal compositions, largely unperformed.
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Rounds are no longer written in modern musical styles, and remain untouched by developments in chromatic harmony, atonality, jazz idioms, serial structures and folk modes.
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Arabic influence may have some part in the genesis of the songs, although the tonality of the Cantigas (mainly Dorian and Mixolydian modes) and basic structure are European; the virelai serves as the basic form, already in use with the Latin conductus, and divided into refrain – mudanza – vuelta – refrain (AA-bb-aa-AA, as in N.º 361).
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Mr. Weber is not a moralist and does not claim that, by preferring Tchaikovsky to, say, the current-day atonalist Charles Wuorinen, we are philistines or reactionaries.
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. Ansel Adams
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‘Mäander’ is an incredible, multi-layered sound world of 4 or 5 layers of clarinets that is atonal, arrhythmic, ominous, and funereal.
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Lenero balances tonal subtleties with his right-angled shapes.
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Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece.
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When you consider that between Spanish, English and Arabic, well over half of the planet doesn't speak a tonal language, that puts Chinese at a serious competative disadvantage.
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The team from Nicholas and Co, of Malvern, completed the final tuning of the organ's 1,000 pipes, with the ‘tonal finishing’.
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Your teachers were all baritones and even your tenor voice has a distinct baritonal touch to it.
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In this respect he forms the link between Wagner and Schoenberg, who was soon to complete the destruction of classical tonal harmony.
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Then we look for basic ability to sight-read tonal music i.e., in the classical style of Bach, Brahms or traditional folk song.
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It was at this time that he divided the scale into 43 microtones - there are 12 semitone intervals in a traditional chromatic scale - and began inventing instruments that could play his new microtonal music.
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The problem is a lack of tonal variety.
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These are cut by intrusions of late Cretaceous-early Tertiary (Laramide) age, ranging from tonalite to granodiorite in composition.
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Next month he undertakes the role of Siegmund a baritonal tenor role sung here last year by Plácido Domingo in Robert Lepage's new Metropolitan Opera production of Die Walkűre.
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I would probably "ground" the audience in tonal conventional music sounds during the real-world part of Zann and move them into atonal "out-there" sounds when that window opens (if I am recalling the story correctly).
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His compositional palette incorporates atonal and nontonal elements, but within a primarily tonal framework.
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Even in the atonal phase, before he adopted serialism, he presented obstacles for his listeners.
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Little concerned to adopt the tonal idioms of opera for the sake of dramatic expression was Nicolas Bernier.
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The treatments, however, differ startlingly, Flos campi (with its bitonal opening) owing less to traditional counterpoint and more to a vision of simultaneous planes of sound.
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There are a lot of siennas, rich reds and browns, in its tonality, something that Megan absolutely adores.
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My argument is with "the rich, seemingly effortless baritonal heldentenor of Hans Hopf.
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Greaves achieves considerable intensity on this tiny scale through his mastery of infinitely subtle tonal gradations, often in black and brown or gray hues that evoke the palette of old photographs.
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The tailoring is classic and structured and the subtle pinstripes and tonal coloured checks feature soft detailing.
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The string playing was sinewy, and tonally integrated, a lovely sound which would not disgrace a professional orchestra; particularly pleasing, bearing in mind that this one includes even first year students.
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It sounded a bit like a tonal American symphony written by a Russian who knows his Britten.
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On the other hand, if large amounts of well-preserved authentic paint are obscured, it is usually worthwhile revealing them and regaining the tonality of the original colours.
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And in case you missed it--and in the traditional media's habit of going monotonal when things like Obama's speech happen, you can certainly be forgiven if you did--this past monday Darcy Burner unveiled the Responsible Plan to end the war in Iraq PDF.
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Strangulated squeaks, beeps and atonal, dying samba rhythms scuttered into life.
Simon Boccanegra; 63rd Aldeburgh festival
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The student begins to understand the origins of key and tonality, rather than memorizing the order of flats and sharps.
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His fondness for chromaticism was such that Schoenberg suspected he would soon join the ranks of the atonalists, but for Reger chromaticism was a means of expanding the resources of tonality, not a harbinger of its imminent collapse.
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From double mercerized golf shirts in elegant tonal patterns to luxurious Tencel/cotton twills, this collection allows those in sizes up to 6XL and 6XL TALL a chance to get a real selection in this higher-caliber product.
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The scrutiny of the three Swiss branches of the Israeli banks is at an early stage and has not reached the level of that of Credit Suisse, which received a target letter from the Justice Department in July, or of HSBC Holdings, a major European bank, and Basler Kantonalbank, a Swiss cantonal bank, said the people briefed on the matter.
Exclusive: U.S. tax-evasion probe turns to Israeli banks
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The book could not have come at a worse time for Sarkozy, whose ruling right-of-centre UMP party is facing an onslaught by the extreme-right Front National in cantonal elections today.
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There are a vast number of languages that are known as tone languages or tonal languages.
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It is dominated by variably foliated, medium-grained, even-textured to porphyritic biotite hornblende tonalite and quartz diorite.
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Copper's style consists of a firmly tonal framework into which rogue elements of chromaticism, wrong notes (in tonal terms), bitonality are mixed in a rather naïve manner.
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Overall, the tonal balance, flattening of forms and coolness of colouring projects a feeling of utter limpidity.
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a tertian tonal system
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Following the Roman conquest the settlement was made into the cantonal capital of the region and was enclosed within a series of perimeter walls defining an irregular octagon in plan.
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Women's participation in political institutions also shows inequality: On the communal, cantonal, and federal levels, women represent one-third of candidates and only one-quarter of those elected.
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The serialists / atonalists wrapped themselves in quasi-mathematical systems at the expense of the subjective, though they insisted that the works were meant to be expressive.
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Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.
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Putting that aside and simply listening to the sound itself, one hears a voice of remarkable purity and tonal beauty along with a command of style and color that any singer would kill for.
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The melody flows or soars like the song of a bird, because it is the free expression, not of musical fantasy, as such (the unconscious play of tonal fancy), but the flow of _melody_, _song_, the soaring of spirit in some one particular direction, floating upon buoyant pinions, and in directions well conceived and sure.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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In general, the strain intensity is commonly considerably higher in the granodiorite dykes than in the tonalitic wall-rock gneisses, which probably reflects strain localization into the dykes.
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Project of a new system of arithmetic, weight, measure, and coins, proposed to be called the tonal system, with sixteen to the base.
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The tonal range of the earlier embraces the very light and very dark.
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Subtle tonal variations are evident in bands of pavers that form a grid pattern.
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His pieces are too monotonous in rhythm and weak in melody to be really interesting, and his experiments in tonality are indecisive.
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If the proposal passes, it could start supplying new textbooks in dialects next year, says Ivo Berther, a cantonal official.
Swiss Effort to Save a Language Opens a Rift
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Permian and Triassic plutonic complexes comprise monzonite, granite, granodiorite or tonalite with minor gabbro and diorite.
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The Adagio section has some lush, fluorescent sounds, in which Schoenberg flirts with major tonalities and then destroys them.
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It always seemed to me that a goot fuddler must be a man of sentiment, but ye are the exception, Tonal ', that proves the rule.
The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
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An EX Mode links all 18 drawbars for a full 13 tonal harmonics and up to five variable percussion harmonics on the upper manual, with two software drawbars available on the lower.
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Look at its Corot-esque, grey tonality and its fleeting brushwork.
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He manages to portray the sensitive man under the sadistic mask by tonal inflections and body language, admirably.
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Even the government, with its tonal backtrack on race-based policies, has acknowledged that.
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Gershwin was not a jazz musician; his music is not jazz, but his inherent sensitivity to African-American music allowed him to create music that was intelligently and rewardingly coloured by its textures and tonalities.
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres at New York's Aeolian Hall
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You can tell a loud yawner to shut up, and she will yawn with more tonal precaution, turning her yawn into a softer, more weightless expulsion of breath.
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Aspects of his style are indebted to Manet and Sickert, the former in the alla prima succulence of paint application, the latter in muted, at times almost murky, close tonality in the depiction of crowds.
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It is important to remember that there are two ways to change colour saturation or tonal density.
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Tonal mists begird the senses like thick, expanding fog, as the sparse calls of exotic birds and invisible creatures enhances the presence of this tenebrous abode of tranquility.
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A fair portion of contemporary poetry over-relies on self-reflexive irony, tonal detachment, and an often irritating allusive erudition.
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Durey's use of bi- and polytonality is less strident and upfront than Milhaud's, and he mixes it with a plangent lyricism which, despite Durey's avowed intention to forget Ravel, is surely influenced by the latter's quartet of 1903.
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They match it – in instrumentation, key tonality, chord progression, tempo, genre, voice quality, regional influences, extent of vamping and vocal harmony, and a hundred other variables based on the Music Genome Project – and create a radio station based solely around that music.
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It also is the least atonal-sounding movement and will likely appeal even to those of fairly conservative tastes.
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Nield essayed the daunting, high lying solo flute line with brilliance and a lustrous tonal palette.
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subtleties of harmonic change and tonality
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The highly unusual interplay of materials affords rich tonal contrasts and skillfully integrates the solidity of the carved wooden structure with the intricacy of the inscribed inlays.
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Burmese tonal languages
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The gorgeous tonal colors of this music have rarely glistened so brightly!
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But Chansons d'Édith Piaf has its exquisite moments, the first tune alone, "L'accordéoniste," providing a six-minute journey from atonalism to cabaret to swing.
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Eschewing the brilliant primaries of his still lifes of the 1920s, he limits himself to only a few colours, creating a tonal harmony closer perhaps to the work of fellow Iona painter George Houston than to the other colourists.
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The Chamber Symphony from 1967 is definitely a massive leap forward and here one can sense the deep atonal overtones that lie behind the heart of the music.
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Rubens's northern inheritance, which included painting on panels rather than canvas, brought into play a cooler range of colours, including bluer fleshtones and, generally, a softer overall tonality.
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Seventies designs, in contrast, were monochromatic and tonally organised, texts rationalised and regular.
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Fifty-five years after his death, Anton Webern still leads listeners through a musical underworld where even dodecaphonic and atonal rules simply don't apply.
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Hmong is monosyllabic and tonal, meaning that it consists mainly of one-syllable words and that the tone of a word affects meaning.
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This change is attested in Kamti Tai, a tonal and isolating language spoken in Myanmar.
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Dori's airhorn had a decidedly different tone than Devon's, and the resulting sound was a bray that was both loud and atonal.
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Studies of tonality have shown that listeners agree on the keynote of a musical excerpt and that the listeners in turn agree with the composer.
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His Keatsian Choral Symphony took many years to become established, and the austere bitonality of the Fugal Concerto and the Double Concerto for two violins puzzled even his admirers.
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Yet I have to say that its rigorous and intransigent atonal style with a preponderance of chromatic note clusters and major seventh and minor ninth intervals now seems outworn, its initial impact long dissipated.
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It's difficult to say what the current development could mean in the long term, but many people are overwhelmed by Zug's rapid development from a farming town into a global village," says Barbara Gysel , president of the Social Democrats in the canton and member of the cantonal parliament.
Swiss Region's Boom Breeds Discontent
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California fog provides a unifying tonalist palette, especially in the dry season when the hills are dun colored.
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With its range of tonalities and mobilities, Niedecker's work explodes the standard cliches of minimalism as quiet or modest.
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People shout to be heard over the din, loud mufflerless trucks rumble by on the street, dogs bark, a mysterious polytonal chittering in the background sounds like a great horde of rats.
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It clearly looks like it fits in tonally with X-Men: The Last Stand, which was embarrassing to watch.
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Beyond this the EVB3 also incorporates three tube overdrives with different tonal characteristics, an equalizer, a wah wah and a reverberation effect.
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The first half ended with the Ives Sonata No. 4, an unruly pastiche of hymns, marches and folk songs in a polytonal texture, which simply stopped mid-phrase.
Virtuoso violinist Hilary Hahn holds her audience rapt but adds some irritants
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But the other main musical issue is that in Indian music, you have this very complicated system, or complex system, I should say, of ornamentation that, again in the West, it's kind of glossed over by being referred to as microtonal or quarter tones, and it's much more complex than that.
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Beyond rhythm, Dave Brubeck challenged the public's ear with polytonality, or playing in multiple keys simultaneously.
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In the A minor she adroitly captures the profundities of the first movement with subtle tonal shadings, a seemingly perfect balancing of inner voices with the main line, and a fine sense for selecting her tempos.
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Like the photogram they were highly valued because of the absolute impersonality achieved in the tonal rendering through some mechanistic agency.
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This very ordinary subject is transformed by its subtlety of tonality; for Levitan had become a master of rendering the gradations of light as the sky darkens at dusk and moonlight establishes itself.
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Your teachers were all baritones and even your tenor voice has a distinct baritonal touch to it…
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At the very end of the piece, in a very contemporary strategy, the perfect fourth yields to a tritone, C-#, thereby obscuring an unambiguous closure in an enriched tonality of D major.
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Switzerland was still controlled by cantonal oligarchies who would cede very little of their sovereignty to the Federal Diet or Federal Directory.
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Language varies in terms of pitch, tonality, intonation, and pronunciation.
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As if the tonal mess weren't enough, the movie is riddled with plot holes that wreak increasing confusion.
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The organ of today is devotional, churchly, vital and filled with tonal charm.
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Prefiguring Expressionist chiaroscuro in their tonal brilliance, they achieve the seemingly impossible brief of ensnaring the transitory temperament of meteorological effects.
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He founded a school of cacophony which resulted in atonalism, and then, like his friend Picasso in art, left his school behind.
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The violins thirds quiveringly descend from the climax to a low F and the final quatrain returns to narration, over the fiddle's sustained bitonal notes.
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Examining the implications of submediant superimpositions as two keys helps illuminate structures in these pieces that are hidden when viewed through a single tonality.
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The drawings have a Photo-Realist literalness, and a dense, satiny gloss accenting edges and shadows in a masterful counterpoint of tonal values.
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Unfortunately they don't export to the US, but their Syrah Gran Reserva and Cosecha Otoñal, a late harvest wine made with pink muscatel grapes, are almost worth the trip to Chile on their own.
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I don't believe I have ever heard this arduous role sung with such lyrical beauty, tonal suavity.
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The larger canvases in the series ‘The Sky is Crying’ are predominantly dark in tonality.
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Not one to experiment in the emerging environment of atonal and neo-classical music, his old-fashioned compositions were swept aside well before his death.
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A similar sensitivity to tonality permeates his music today.
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The core of his argument concerns the relationships of keys to each other, the establishment of a tonal centre, the sequence of tonic, dominant, subdominant.
Music and Sentiment by Charles Rosen
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The horizontal bands of sky and sea take on the rich tonal consistencies of a Rothko abstraction.
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Here was obviously a great future talent for atonal and dodecaphonic scores.
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Wagner, Mahler and Sibelius all used tonality and key centres to powerful ends, and the blaze of A major must have meant a great deal to Messiaen.
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But influential East Coast critics were not kind to this gorgeous music that seemed so out of step with postwar atonalism.
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The majority always turn an unfavorable attitude towards atonal composition.
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When he finished, he bounced on his toes and laughed a flat, atonal laugh.
MINUTES TO BURN
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This is one of those few works in which Rodrigo chose to set aside conventional tonality; the results are not difficult for the average listener to enjoy, however.
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This study has confirmed that indeed, he did develop numerous innovative techniques before his European counterparts, including polytonality, tone-clusters, atonality and polyrhythms, and many others.
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Subsequent sections flesh out this theory of prose's stylistic attunement to the 'tonality of bourgeois existence'.
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The men echoed the women, making for a complex dovetailed sound with shifting tonality and a surprise ending - the final high shimmering chord constructed from string harmonics leaves some mysticism in the air.
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Location: sarnia the tonal characteristics of marshall mg's have been described as unkind by many a player
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MEDITERRANEAN KIWI said ... please excuse me for forgetting to mention that the commentators know their greek well: the terms KLEPHT and EXOHIKO are common greek words whose meanings are clear. as for that word TRADITIONAL, clearly salmon klephtiko doesn't fit into the tradition: where on earth would an arcadian find salmon? and if an arcadian of the foregone klepht era ever managed to get one, i wonder whether they would ever think to cook it klepht style? no, they couldnt possibly have put it in their head to do so - it just wouldnt be TRADITIONAL (les kai kollousan sto noima tis lexeis) if i were an arcadian in the late 1800's and i were given a gift of salmon, i would definitely have cooked it klepht style, because i wouldnt have wanted even the NEIGHBOURS to find out what delicacy i was cooking ... what on earth is the traditonal method of cooking salmon in arcadia anyway???
Recipe for Salmon "Kleftiko" (Σολομός Κλέφτικος) and Kleftiko: Its Modern Meaning
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The implied connection between ‘cadence’ and falling is most explicitly realized in music where a melodic line descends conclusively to the modal final or tonal tonic.
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You knew how to find just the right dreamlike quality for the music, whose harmonic language is neither tonal, nor modal, nor truly chromatic, but a little of all three at the same time.
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There are enormous intrusions into many of these terrains; layered anorthosites, dyke swarms of basalts, and complexes of tonalite or diorite intrusions also occur.
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The Violin Concerto starts off, for instance, with dissonant sustained chords auguring a foray into some atonal world of austerity and gray shadings.
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Our genetic evidence from Drosophila and previous in vitro studies of mammalian Atonal homolog 1 (Atoh1, also called Math1 or Hath1) suggest an anti-oncogenic function for the Atonal group of proneural basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors.
Intervallic cell
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The cursive rhythms and hot tonality of hot nudes of the 1920s recall Delacroix, Limited and even conventional in its Mediterranean genre, Smith's best work has great formal authority.
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The groundwork of the songs rely on basic beats with a few tonal melodies interacting.
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It is not fortuitous that the key is D minor, a tonality traditionally associated with quest, especially by the Viennese classics, and perhaps by the High Baroque masters as well.
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The section ends almost whimsically with the band fixating upon a repeated bop riff and then finishing with an extended atonal blast.
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The song flowed straight ahead, without any polytonal progressions.
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Four dual-oscillator SEM modules each with its own filters and envelopes are joined together along with a simple analog mixer and 49-note keyboard to give you a polyphonic/polytonal Obie-beast!
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Crashing chords pound out from the piano line while the clarinet speaks in a tonal, coolly cerebral mode.
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I have some flat negatives that really need a tonal boost.
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Cantonal police units and a nominal confederate police, initially aided by an international contingent, should maintain public order and ensure peaceful relations between diverse cantons.
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She falls into Hatch's lap, literally, as he and his sarcastic partner Deedee the monotonal Kelly Overton investigate Elise's shooting of an intruder in her house.
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Rather, they constitute an inexplicable wave of energy which the Toltecs called the tonal and the nagual.
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The psychocultural ground of Schoenberg's atonalism and its complex procedures was the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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The chromaticised appoggiaturas in the melismata iron out the bitonality of the creaky accompaniment into Phrygian E minor, as the final stanza returns from recollection to the table here and now.
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Its provocative themes were smothered by a talky libretto that alternated between earnest exposition and sitcom jokes, set in smoothly tonal, insipid musical language.
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Satie was in advance of his time with his love of bitonality, polytonality and non-triadic harmony to name but a few of his gravity-breaking techniques.
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The focus throughout Part 3 is on tonality as a framework for generating coherence.
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Even the fast numbers have a bitter bitonality, and the final one is a wordless requiem.
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As usual in his Neapolitan operas, there are also splendid opportunities for rival tenors - the dark, baritonal villain Antenore and the light, florid tenore di grazia Ilo - to pit their vocal skills against each other.
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Eighteenthcentury composers, to be sure, put great stock in distinctions among tonalities.
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Prosecutors also are investigating several smaller cantonal banks in Switzerland, according to people familiar with the matter.
Offshore Banks Subject of Grand Jury Probes
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In fact, it reminds me very much of Schoenberg's freely atonal music of roughly twenty years previous.
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Leaving aside the microtonal differences resulting from natural resonance I have constructed 11 modes based on the interaction of 2 harmonic series.
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Brecht's words, juxtaposed against Weill's music, with its atonal harmonies and angular lines, venomously satirized the state of affairs.
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The performances can be a little hoarse - a certain tonal refulgence is lacking here - but they don't get in the way of the music.
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The Mass in C has a tonal plan based on mediant and submediant.
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The fleet finale, lasting less than two minutes, is a wonder, with harmony and tonality largely in shreds.
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His dazzling virtuosity and sweeping tonal palette made the music truly live.
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In music, melody and tonality became old-fashioned, and the twelve tone row and atonality reigned supreme in ‘serious’ composition.
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It is a tonal Mon-Khmer language with strong Chinese lexical influences.
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Add to that the fact that I love Massenet because his music is tonal and well harmonised, and you have some idea of my style.
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She manages beautifully subtle shifts in tempo without crossing over into the soupy, and she applies a large palette of tonal color tastefully.
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The V-neck style also has extensive tonal stitch detail.
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I had wondered what sound worlds, tonal colours and rhythms Hiorthøy might proffer.
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The tonal range of the earlier embraces the very light and very dark.
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The lighting too is questionable, reduced in some rooms to levels which, while they might suit the tonality of Picasso, can kill the often subtle colours of Matisse.
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Charles Wuorinen is directing the festival, and listeners who are stuck in the musical politics of the relatively recent past or who think that Mr. Wuorinen's music lies on the severe, atonal side, might assume that this year's festival would tilt toward what Milton Babbitt semijokingly called maximalism.
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Characteristically the paintings are grey in tonality, which together with their dusty-looking surfaces and the skeletal proportions of the figures often conveys a ghostly feeling.
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The Pro Q really gives some interesting tonal variations to the sounds generated by the preamp but it does smack of overkill.
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Her sculptural designs incorporate softly rounded shapes and matt enamels with gentle tonal variations that possess a subtle simplicity.
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Dissonance emerges through highly structured chord strata and haunting tonalities and atonalities working with and then against one another.
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Little concerned to adopt the tonal idioms of opera for the sake of dramatic expression was Nicolas Bernier.
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All that stayed with me after Keane was an unhappy impression of all-abiding tonal uniformity in the hush-tone vespers of dialogues, unhandsome, shallow mise-en-scène, and rigidly adhered-to aesthetic tenets.
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The rest will make you want to slit your wrists or take an Advil at too much atonalist sound distortion.
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The tonal range of the earlier embraces the very light and very dark.
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Our modes and tonality, diverse ingredients and style unite in a tapestry of stitches belonging to different needles.
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City" is sometimes described as atonal, but perhaps "supertonal" might be a better term, it seems to exist in every key and every tempo at the same: great, towering, unresolved dissonances the size of the Chrysler building are constructed right in front of you and then tumble to the ground "watch out for flying glass!
The Jazz Scene: Birthdays and Mermaids
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One of the cleanest and most interesting re-appropriations I've seen recently with the notion of tonal achieving increasingly good results across the board.
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Therefore, it is actually rather inaccurate to use the word conservative here; if we compare for example Standard Cantonese (SC) with Standard Mandarin (SM), then the number of tones in each would be, starting from the first attested protolanguage, Old Chinese (as far as we know, nontonal):
Fun with Old Chinese rhymes
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Kiaer's idiosyncratic palette is filled with strong tonal contrasts, which add to the push-pull effect.
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Some critics were turned off by Williams' bombastic, proclamatory emceeing, which often made no pretense of rhythmic consistency or tonal variety.
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he composes atonally
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The Swiss are involved in political decision-making throughout the year on the local, cantonal, and federal level.
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Its been gone for about four days now since those two late nights, and makes the occasional cameo appearance as some sort of flutey, reedy, multi-tonal effort reminiscent of The Diva.
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Spectralism is an interesting case in this scheme: a definite reliance on scientific analysis, but retaining connections of vocabulary and sonic effect with post-serialist atonality — not, in its current form, enough of a break.
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It seamed that between extratonal and neo-tonal codes there were nothing but divarications.
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In this diocese the cantonal districts do not bear their geographical names, as in all other dioceses, but the name of a saint which becomes the patron of the deanery: the Vichy deanery, for instance, is called the deanery of St-Raphael.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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You'll need, for instance, to come to grips with the devilishly complicated Thai tonal system (even my ultra compact phrase book devotes several pages to it).
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But both composers weave melodic material and unusual tonal colors in a way that is accessible, and worthy of repeated listening.
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It is purely his craftsmanship that gives the range, tone and tonal nuances the musicians have found unmatched for 350 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the voices and sometimes tonal percussion leave you in no doubt about their West African roots, the horns echo African military bands and European / American brass bands.
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The trick to looking good in top-to-toe brights is to break them up with accessories with tonal similarities.
The Sun
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At the very end of the piece, in a very contemporary strategy, the perfect fourth yields to a tritone, C-#, thereby obscuring an unambiguous closure in an enriched tonality of D major.
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Her beautiful tonal shadings made the 1912 cycle Coleccion de Tonadillas Escritas en Estilo Antiguo by Enrique Granados a musical delight.
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A free-flowing fantasia, it uses bitonal harmonic clashes in its depiction of man's yearning to transcend nature and create the amoral figure of the Superman, the being of the future who is ‘beyond good and evil’.
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The negative reaction began to gather when Mr. Reed was named "the most overrated lyricist of all time" by the music website Flavorwire, and almost simultaneously a Village Voice online critic who heard a "Lulu" preview cited its "grinding atonality that veers on amusicality" and "relentless misogyny.
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