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tonality::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | key |
| Type of | musical notation |
| Has types | major key, major mode, home key, minor mode, tonic key, minor key |
| Derivation | tonal |
Examples of tonality
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The theory's basic tenets can be viewed as a way of defining tonality in music.
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Music notation was created to accommodate tonality and facilitate interpretation.
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Conflicts are magnified by music wavering between homey tonality and atonal chaos.
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The regulated verse forms also prescribed patterns based upon linguistic tonality.
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Human music may echo these phenomena using patterns, repetition and tonality.
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If you're looking for the same tonality as the book, you will find glimpses.
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This numbering lets us see the job a chord is doing in the current key and tonality.
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In the harmonic kind, tonality is produced through the V-Ichord progression.
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There was never any attempt by Schoenberg or any of his students to badmouth tonality.
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- Key: any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- (tonal) tonic: employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words; "Chinese is a tonal language"
- (tonal) having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation to one tone such as a keynote or tonic
- 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 to be the key of a piece or song. Thus a piece in which the tonic chord is C major is said to be "in the key of C"...
- (Tonal (mythology)) Tonal is a concept within the study of Mesoamerican religion, myth, folklore and anthropology. ...
- The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales; A sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre; The quality of all the tones in a composition heard in relation to the tonic; The interrelation of the tones in a painting
- (tonal) a hierarchy of pitches which functionally support or reference one pitch as the focal point or primary center, called the tonic. ...
- (Tonal) Based on traditional western harmonic structure, as in tonal music, the vast majority of music heard in America and Europe is tonal, see Atonal.
- (Tonal) Music with a key. Chord are hardly ever dissonant.
