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tonality - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A system or arrangement of seven tones built on a tonic key.
- noun The arrangement of all the tones and chords of a composition in relation to a tonic.
- noun The scheme or interrelation of the tones in a painting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music:
- noun The character or quality of tone.
- noun Same as
key , 7 . - noun In painting, the scheme of color of a picture; system of tones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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, or tonic, of the whole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun music The
system of seventones built on atonic key ; the 24major andminor scales . - noun music A
sound of specificpitch andquality ;timbre . - noun music The quality of all the tones in a
composition heard inrelation to the tonic. - noun The
interrelation of the tones in apainting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
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Examples
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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.
Secondhand Music 1997
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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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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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EMM has something similar, called tonality detection.
Tracking the News: A Smarter Way to Predict Riots and Wars 2008
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EMM has something similar, called tonality detection.
Tracking the News: A Smarter Way to Predict Riots and Wars 2008
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“I think that your tonality was a little flat,” someone said.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998
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“I think that your tonality was a little flat,” someone said.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998
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“I think that your tonality was a little flat,” someone said.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998
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“I think that your tonality was a little flat,” someone said.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Sean Covey 1998
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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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Words with the same meaning
- French pitch
- Klangfarbe
- arc lighting
- black and white
- chiaroscuro
- clang color
- classical pitch
- color
- coloring
- contrast
- decorative lighting
- depth
- direct lighting
- dominant
- dulcetness
- electric lighting
- enlightenment
- festoon lighting
- floodlighting
- fluorescent lighting
- gaslighting
- glow lighting
- height
- high pitch
- highlights
- illumination
- incandescent lighting
- indirect lighting
- irradiation
- key
- key signature
- keynote
- light and shade
- lighting
- low pitch
- major
- major key
- mediant
- mellifluence
- mellifluousness
- melodiousness
- melody
- minor
- musical quality
- musical sound
- musicality
- new philharmonic pitch
- note
- overhead lighting
- pedal point
- philharmonic pitch
- philosophical pitch
- pitch
- radiation
- register
- spot lighting
- stage lighting
- standard pitch
- strip lighting
- subdominant
- submediant
- subtonic
- supertonic
- sweetness
- timbre
- tone
- tone color
- tone quality
- tonic
- tonic key
- tune
- tunefulness
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- duality
- extraterritoriality
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- formality
- frugality
- generality
- geniality
- hospitality
- impersonality
- irrationality
- legality
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- locality
- mentality
- modality
- morality
- mortality
- municipality
- musicality
- nationality
- neutrality
- normality
- partiality
- practicality
- sexuality
- spirituality
- theatricality
- totality
- triviality
- universality
- unreality
- vitality
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