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ton·al
/ ˈtōnl/
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adj.
of or relating to the tone of music, color, or writing:
his ear for tonal color
the poem's tonal lapses.
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of or relating to music written using conventional keys and harmony.
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Phonet.
(of a language) expressing semantic differences by varying the intonation given to words or syllables of a similar sound.
DERIVATIVES:
ton·al·ly
adv.
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Tonality and paranoia: a reply to Boros. (response to article by James Boros in Contemporary Music Review, vol. 6, p. 1)
Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...1) which denounces the "New Tonality" issue of Contemporary Music Review...Regional Editor," which begins the "New Tonality" issue of CMR: The regional editorial...issue, the postmodern resurgence of tonality, is a case at hand, for it is something...
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Getting outside the tonality while staying inside the melody [Keyboard technique, part II]
Magazine article from: Canadian Musician; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...dissonant note or passage to re-establish the tonality and/or foreshadow another trip outside the tonality. By exaggerating the familiar elements...accompaniment you might venture outside the tonality by using substitutions, i.e. four or...
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Tonality as drama; closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2009; 483 words
; 9781574412499 Tonality as drama; closure and interruption...operas to understand why the use of tonality continued while composers of other genres...s The Tender Land, and argues that tonality was used for dramatic effect. ([c...
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Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond. By...for music theorists: does functional tonality emerge from the characteristics of scales, or do scales result from functional tonality? Schenker believed the latter, and...
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The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality.
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...The Second Practice of Nineteenth- Century Tonality, William Kinderman and Harald Krebs have put...varied group of compositions are ambiguous tonality, tonal pairing, directional tonality, and the substitution, fusion, or interlocking...
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Getting outside the tonality while staying inside the melody [Keyboard technique: part I]
Magazine article from: Canadian Musician; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...progression. Stepping slightly outside of the tonality in the melody makes for a more unique...prominent in the tune, when you do leave the tonality it seems as if you haven't or that...that is familiar, reestablishing the tonality, but keeping the movement relatively...
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[A] Tonalities vinyl enhanced tile flooring combines the original, more natural look of an earlier era with today's most recent technological assets.(Tools of the Trade)
Magazine article from: Buildings; 5/1/2006; 400 words
; [A] Tonalities vinyl enhanced tile flooring combines the original, more natural look...a healthy dose of color and style, with 16 colors to choose from. Tonalities vinyl enhanced tile flooring by LG Floors/Distributed by Innovision...
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Towards tonality; aspects of Baroque music theory.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 532 words
; 9789058675873 Towards tonality; aspects of Baroque music theory. Ed. by Peter Dejans. Leuven...and Petronio Franceschini in the context of the transition towards tonality from the Renaissance to the Baroque Period. Others address the...
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LG Floors' new Tonalities tiles use through-color chip designs.(Resilient Gallery)
Magazine article from: National Floor Trends; 6/1/2006; 343 words
; LG Floors introduces Tonalities vinyl enhanced tile flooring for commercial use. Tonalities is offered in 3mm gauge, 18" by 18" tiles featuring 16 through-color chip designs. The product is durable, wear-resistant and antibacterial, according...
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Legalities, Tonalities.(analysis of testimony from Monica Lewinsky regarding relationship with President)(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: Newsweek; 9/28/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...pumpkin papers." The dress was Lewinsky's pumpkin paper. Clinton's fate will be determined not only by legalities but by tonalities--by the depth of the country's embarrassment and uneasiness about having that man at the center of civic life. Hence...
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tonality
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tonality , in music, quality by which all tones...music that has harmony the terms key and tonality are practically synonymous, embracing...atonality and serial music ). The term tonality is also used in contrast to modality...
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progressive tonality
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
progressive tonality. Beginning a symphonic movt. in one key and ending it in another, as in certain works of Nielsen and Mahler .
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atonality
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...deliberately rejected the principle of tonality . Tonality is a form of musical organization that...completely obscured whatever basic tonalities were present in their music. The abandonment of tonality in the early 20th cent. by Schoenberg...
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Music, Classical
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...music has its origins in the system of tonality developed in the Medieval Church. That...until the twentieth century when Western tonality, through popular music, essentially...tension and release means that Western tonality, unlike all other known musical systems...
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Sallinen, Aulis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...world. His music is characterized by its tonality and melody; indeed, Sallinen has sometimes...1960s, and at various times focused on tonality or atonality. His String Quartet No...uses a strict twelve-note technique or tonality, while his Concerto for Chamber Orchestra...
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