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UK
/təʊnˈælɪti/
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[ US /toʊˈnæɫəti/ ]
[ US /toʊˈnæɫəti/ ]
NOUN
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
How To Use tonality In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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.
- 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). Archive 2009-07-01
- There are a lot of siennas, rich reds and browns, in its tonality, something that Megan absolutely adores.
- 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.
- The student begins to understand the origins of key and tonality, rather than memorizing the order of flats and sharps.
- 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.
- 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.
- Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.
- His pieces are too monotonous in rhythm and weak in melody to be really interesting, and his experiments in tonality are indecisive.