Tonality is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TONALITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the sum of relations between the tones or notes of a scale or key
• the character of a piece of music as determined by the key in which it is played or the relations between the notes of a scale or key
• the harmonic effect of being in a particular key
• the use of conventional keys and harmony as the basis of musical composition
• the colour scheme or range of tones used in a picture
• presence of a musical key in a composition
• 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.
• any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a system of tones

Words related to TONALITY

tonalities10

Words that contain TONALITY

atonality12 bitonality15 polytonality20 microtonality20

How to use TONALITY in a sentence

• The confusion which this plan produces in the sense of tonality can readily be imagined.
• The melodic form of the scale can then be taught, and both forms practised to give plenty of freedom in the new tonality.
• During the first few lessons in a new key it is certainly inadvisable to give exercises in the preceding ones, as the whole attention must be concentrated on the new tonality.
• For the last time, the old conceptions of tonality obtain in his music dramas.
• They also forget that his most important aid in this is the feeling of tonality.
• A mystic is Franck in his dominant moods, with a special sense and power for subtle harmonic process, ever groping in a spiritual discontent with defined tonality.
• The old manner in church music, that Bach often used, of closing a minor tonality with a major chord, was probably due to a regard for the mood of the congregation.
• In both composers, to carry on the comparison beyond the technical phase, is a certain reaching for the primeval, in feeling as in tonality.
• Independently of themes, the rough edge of tonality and the vigorous primitive rhythms are expressive of the Slav feeling.
• It marks, in its reaction, the excessive stress of tonality and of simple colors of harmony.
• But taking the vertical column alone, we shall have twenty-four special and distinct keys whose action and tonality will be entirely specific.
• The singer, with his instinct for the five-note scale, avoids the B-natural until the tonality shifts back to the original key.
• The B-natural found in the next-to-last measure is a passing tone, and does not affect the scale or tonality.
• In the last measure of the third line there is a modulation into the tonality of B-flat which carries through two measures.
• That quality which a melody takes on when the two tones which are foreign to the pentatonic scale of the same key or tonality are freely employed.

Similar words containing TONAL without suffix ity

tonal5 atonal6 bitonal9 tonally10 atonally11 cantonal10 ecotonal10 nontonal8 tonalite8 atonalism11 atonalist9 atonality12 baritonal11 polytonal14 semitonal11 tonalites9 tonalitic11 atonalisms12 atonalists10 bitonality15 microtonal14 tonalities10 tonalitive13 atonalities11 polytonally19 semitonally16 bitonalities14 microtonally19 polytonalism19 polytonalist17 polytonality20 microtonality20 polytonalisms20 polytonalists18 polytonalities19 crotonaldehyde24 microtonalities19 crotonaldehydes25

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