How To Use Tonality In A Sentence
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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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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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There are a lot of siennas, rich reds and browns, in its tonality, something that Megan absolutely adores.
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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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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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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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Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.
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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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Look at its Corot-esque, grey tonality and its fleeting brushwork.
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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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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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subtleties of harmonic change and tonality
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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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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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Beyond rhythm, Dave Brubeck challenged the public's ear with polytonality, or playing in multiple keys simultaneously.
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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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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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Language varies in terms of pitch, tonality, intonation, and pronunciation.
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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 larger canvases in the series ‘The Sky is Crying’ are predominantly dark in tonality.
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A similar sensitivity to tonality permeates his music today.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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The fleet finale, lasting less than two minutes, is a wonder, with harmony and tonality largely in shreds.
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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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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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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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Our modes and tonality, diverse ingredients and style unite in a tapestry of stitches belonging to different needles.
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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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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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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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Walton, who in early days dabbled in atonality, eventually settled for neo-romanticism and his Viola Concerto is a most elegiac composition.
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The chordal bitonality is constantly there - one thinks of Bartók and Mikrokosmos - and the dramatic interest (something Martinu is actually strong on) is maintained.
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The author Maynard Solomon wrote a paper alleging that Ives had backdated his scores in an effort to establish his p;recedence in the race toward atonality.
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'Giverny' is one of only two known paintings from this period - a small-scale but richly varied landscape within the context of its wintry tonality.
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Well, Schoenberg was the progenitor of what is called atonality, which meant simply that he abandoned most of the harmonies that had been in use for centuries and devised new harmonies of his own, which were sometimes quite frightening to hear and, in other cases, had a sort of a weird impressionistic beauty to them.
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There are many ways to create and release tension in music, and tonality is one way to do that, according to specific principles, with harmony.
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He also writes music - exploring the farthest reaches of tonality and texture - for the two tenor saxes, bass and drums of his own band.
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Butcher is famed for recreating, in vivid tonality and detail, the threatened Florida Everglades wilderness swamps, with their dense foliage and moss-draped cypress trees.
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Webern makes the move to free atonality at roughly the same time Schoenberg does and with very much the same result: a long creative silence.
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Colors were a bit flat, but overall had a nice tonality to them - deep browns and blacks, a bit shadowy in interior scenes, but nothing to get hung up about.
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This process could not go on indefinitely, and in 1908 Schoenberg made the break into atonality, abandoning the attempt to fit atonal harmonies into tonal forms.
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In the ‘Rubaiyat’, the lightness of the flowers is emphasised by the dark green shade of the leaves, while their colouring relates to the rather dark tonality employed in the miniatures.
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The only musical instrument he uses is the tambura (a simple stringed instrument), and this only to provide sruti (a drone sound furnishing a basic tonality).
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Many of Ives "compositions were ground breaking and anticipated 20th century musical techniques such as polytonality, atonality, 12 tone formations, polymetres, and polyrhythms.
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You start to understand why, even given late-Romantic levels of dissonance, atonality so bothered the d'Indys of the world — dissonance was OK as long as the movement from key center to key center remained purposeful and perceptible, but lose that modulation, and things start to seem random.
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A final chapter deals with Bach's use of tonality and modulation.
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The tonality of the piece and the printed signature result from the scale or mode the composer has used during composition.
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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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In the work's outer sections, Nielsen uses dark, misty scoring and uncertain tonality to indicate the castle's incorporeal presence.
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The idiom is essentially tonal though dissonance, bitonality, and, occasionally, polytonality are liberally used.
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A quick transition to the major tonality provides sunshine.
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It is ambient and it is thought-provoking on even the most rudimentary level, with expression seldom falling into obviousness - either in terms of lyrics, melody or tonality.
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The foggy tonality of the painting shifts the association to older and more chaste modern textile designs.
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Atonality isn't exactly setting the world on fire these days, what with all these whippersnappers and their feel-good postminimalism.
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Qinyuan Pottery Xun has its own features and styles in tone color , interval and tonality.
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He uses shadowy ghostings of pedal steel or slide blues tonality, though there are no bottlenecks in sight.
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Hindemith, the antidisestablishmentarian, held that mere custom could not account for the vast riches of tonality; unlike his contemporaries, he believed that its possibilities had not been exhausted.
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Abandoning the preconceived notions of tonality, and immersed within a musical state of dissonance, Coltrane's music became a communicative attempt at reaching a higher plane.
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What few of us do, and what atonality causes in us that we so resist, is to react physically to music.
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So, it seemed to me that in the macrocosmic aspect, the controlling factor was tonality, or pitch polarity.
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The dominant in a given key or tonality.
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In this paper, I choose 13 'vanward' pieces during this period and make some study and analysis on harmony, scale, tonality, texture, structure and so on.
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It has elements of traditional folksong with some gentle ventures into atonality.
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Once students can associate the syllables, they would need additional practice recognizing the tonality or meter of familiar music.
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Around the turn of the century, composers began to experiment with atonality, dissonance and primitive rhythms.
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EMM has something similar, called tonality detection.
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Conventional tonality, classical rhythmic structures and developmental discourse were all replaced in favor of much different techniques.
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And he takes a travelling rug with him - another of those fussy bag-and-baggage objects which assert the novel's tonality.
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This 35-minute symphony in one movement could hardly be more serious, and it finds the composer embracing tonality and convention in a manner that would have been unthinkable to him twenty years earlier.
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Then there's Bartok's stretched tonality, the expressive dissonances that result only partly from his use of scales and modes from eastern European folk music, the downright virtuosity of the writing, especially for piano.
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My fingers seem to naturally fit into that five flat pattern, and the tonality is especially pleasing to me, rich and full, with just a hint of melancholy.
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Some critics even suggested that the pervasive blue-violet tonality typical of impressionism was symptomatic of some kind of visual disorder suffered by the artists.
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This third phase of tonal theory argued in favour of a natural basis for major - minor tonality in the overtones of the harmonic series.
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Its semi-finished state and near monochrome, cold blue tonality indicate that it is a surviving design for the relief.
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Venerella suddenly realised the smudges were fingerprints; the ink on the prints was exactly the same colour and tonality as most of the writing.
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Tonality and atonality (as syntaxes) may be anathema to one another, but the relationship between consonance and dissonance in tonal music is a defining characteristic of tonality.
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The liner notes talk about his adaptation of ‘twelve-tone technique’ to tonality, but this is rot, in my opinion.
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The image has a washed-out, filtered tonality offset by Hong's striking - if not disturbing - hand-painted washes of blood-red ink.
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As Schoenberg said, atonality is rejected not because it is ugly, but because it is misunderstood.
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He uses shadowy ghostings of pedal steel or slide blues tonality, though there are no bottlenecks in sight.
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I compared him with his colleague Milhaud, whose deeply biting satire and occasional ventures into atonality took him in other directions, in a worldly sense making his music astringent.
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All forms that we have ever known ... have always been conceived in tonality, that is, in the sense of a tonal magnetic center, with subsidiary tonal relationships.
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Rochford also writes music - exploring the farthest reaches of tonality and texture - for the two tenor saxes, bass and drums of his own band Polar Bear.
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Displayed predominantly in gridded series, the photographs were printed slightly dark, so that the whites have a grayish tonality.
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By the late 1940s, he was already employing modern classical ideas such as polytonality and dissonance, and working in unusual time signatures to create a distinctive jazz sound.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Torke's music was a synthesis of aggressive neo-classicism and minimalist influences, firmly rooted in tonality.
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He just wants metronomes, randomness, atonality, doubletime kick drums and clicks.
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Here, Enescu seems to be pushing Debussy's and Ravel's piano music into hyperspace, and not just with titles such as ‘Carillon nocturne,’ an eyebrow-raising yet gorgeous exercise in polytonality.
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Call me a philistine, but I have small patience for Samuel Beckett, can tolerate only small doses of serial atonality, and am bored numb by recitative.
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“I think that your tonality was a little flat,” someone said.
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(Which, interestingly, would mean that the reaction against atonality is less about the intrinsic properties of tonal harmonies and more about it’s ability to create the illusion of rhythmic symmetry.)
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In most A/V publications, they will tell you to stick with one brand and line of speakers so that the tonality will be the same across the entire soundstage.
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Esenvalds loves to send sopranos into orbit over deep harmonies enriched with added ninths or spiced with soft bitonality.
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Moreover, the pictures employ a lush tonality and fussy delight in detail, not the austere formal economy associated with modernist photographic aesthetics.
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This restatement of the Mother's opening chord provides the vehicle for a sudden shift of tonality to B-flat major and Edward's final answer at the anacrusis to measures 44 and following.
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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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It was Dave Brubeck -- a man who could not read sheet music and who was nearly barred from graduating the College of the Pacific music school in 1942 because of it -- who reinvented the genre with his signature style of polyrhythms, odd time signatures, and polytonality.
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I build with the most primitive materials - with the triad, with one specific tonality.
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After all, you have tonality in modal music; you have tonality in folk music that has nothing to do with the triadic system.
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This article explores the characters of harmony of Bartok's compositions, and emphasizes on the relationship between the tonality and the application of harmony.
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The musculature and tonality of the men in the lower right-hand corner are reminiscent of the bearded figure in Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne.
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Bartok was a radical, even in the early piano music he was experimenting with conventional harmonies and tonality.
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He does not like atonality and caused a big stir when he created an alter-ego for himself, Van den Budenmeyer, as a newly discovered classical composer from a few centuries ago.
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The result, "L," strains to remain both likable (read: appealing to music fans) and suitably contemporary, careering between definite statements of tangled and very earnest-sounding chords, snatches of singing melody and headlong flinging of notes up and down the staff, without ever abandoning its adherence to tonality.
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The tonality of the piece and the printed signature result from the scale or mode the composer has used during composition.
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Despite brief experiments with twelve-tone writing in the 1940s and 1950s, her music rarely ventures beyond extended tonality, emphasizing coloristic harmony and diatonic dissonance.
Marion Eug��nie Bauer.
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In music, atonality or the abandonment of rules of tonality, was the counterpart of cubism and surrealism in art and the functionalism of Bauhaus.
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Her seminal musical works use what are called extended vocal techniques, such as overtone and throat singing, yodeling, keening, percussive sounds, and micro-tonality.
