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Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
E. L. Doctorow

Meaning of "tonalities" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TONALITIES

tonalities  [təʊˈnælətɪz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TONALITIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tonalities is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TONALITIES


contrarieties
ˌkɒntrəˈraɪətɪz
liberties
ˈlɪbətɪz
mediocrities
ˌmiːdɪˈɒkrətɪz
multi-utilities
ˌmʌltɪjuːˈtɪlətɪz
obscurities
əbˈskjʊərətɪz
properties
ˈprɒpətɪz
responsibilities
rɪˌspɒnsɪˈbɪlətɪz
rubbities
ˈrʌbətɪz
sensibilities
ˌsɛnsɪˈbɪlətɪz
societies
səˈsaɪətɪz
solidarities
ˌsɒlɪˈdærətɪz
specialities
ˌspeʃɪˈælətɪz
spontaneities
ˌspɒntəˈneɪətɪz
technicalities
ˌtɛknɪˈkælətɪz
viscosities
vɪsˈkɒsətɪz
vitalities
vaɪˈtælətɪz
vivacities
vɪˈvæsətɪz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TONALITIES

ton
ton-up
ton-up boys
tonal
tonal music
tonal value
tonalite
tonalitive
tonality
tonally
tonant
Tonbridge
tondi
tondino
tondo
tone
tone arm
tone cluster
tone colour
tone control

WORDS THAT END LIKE TONALITIES

abilities
activities
amenities
authorities
capabilities
charities
cities
communities
disabilities
entities
facilities
humanities
minorities
opportunities
parties
possibilities
qualities
quantities
securities
universities
utilities

Synonyms and antonyms of tonalities in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tonalities» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TONALITIES

Find out the translation of tonalities to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tonalities from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tonalities» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

音调
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tonalidades
570 millions of speakers

English

tonalities
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tonalities
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النغمية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тональности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tonalidades
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tonalities
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tonalités
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tonalities
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tonalitäten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

調性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

음조
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tonalities
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sắc điệu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tonalities
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Tonalities
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

makamları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tonalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tonalności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тональності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tonalitati
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τονικότητες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tonaliteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tonalities
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tonalities
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tonalities

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TONALITIES»

The term «tonalities» is regularly used and occupies the 83.333 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TONALITIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tonalities

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QUOTES WITH «TONALITIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tonalities.
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E. L. Doctorow
Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TONALITIES»

Discover the use of tonalities in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tonalities and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Together in Harmony: Combining Orff Schulwerk and Music ...
In discrimination learning, students are taught "to audiate and later to read and write only music with familiar patterns in familiar or unfamiliar order in familiar tonalities and meters. In inference learning, students are presented with a ...
Diane M. Lange, 2005
2
The Clarinet in the Classical Period
Instruments in different nominal pitches made it easier to cope with difficulties encountered in both fingering and intonation when playing music written in various tonalities with a four-key clarinet. According to Roeser, the tonalities easiest to ...
Albert R. Rice, 2003
3
Tonal Space in the Music of Antonio Vivaldi
distributed their works among sixteen tonalities, while Giuseppe Torelli's ensemble oeuvre display his practical acquaintance with thirteen. An exceptional extension of the tonal range appears in 12 Concerti a quattro by Henricus Albicastro, ...
Bella Brover-Lubovsky, 2008
4
The Topos of Music: Geometric Logic of Concepts, Theory, and ...
With these settings, the set X of tonalities is defined by the 24-element set of 12 major tonalities C-major. D^-major,. . . B-major. and 12 minor tonalities C-rainor, D|,-minor,. . . B- minor. The cadence maps are given by 56 minimal cadential sets .
Guerino Mazzola, 2002
5
Felt Meanings of the World: A Metaphysics of Feeling
Section 10). 1. 8. Feeling-Tonalities of the World The next step in the development of the understanding of sensuous feelings and of the world as sensuously felt is to show that the qualitative- flows of the Fs feeling-sensations are correlated ...
Quentin Smith, 2010
6
Tonal Structures in Early Music
The principal roadblocks to mapping the route from polyphonic psalmody to Major / minor tonalities have been failures to make distinctions both logical and substantive. On the logical side, one should distinguish betweenan inherentproperty ...
Cristle Collins Judd, 2014
7
Mape with Pleasure 6
So, when a piece is written in the key of C, it can also be said that it is in the tonality of C. In the previous activity that we had, we did not only sing in one key or one tonality, but in 2 and 3. tonalities. When a melody is sung in 2 different tonalities ...
Palazo, Et Al
8
A Music Learning Theory for Newborn and Young Children
By the time children are engaged in stage three of preparatory audiation, and preferably sooner, they should be listening to songs in at least major, harmonic minor, Mixolydian, and Dorian tonalities and chants in at least usual duple, usual  ...
Edwin Gordon, 2003
9
Clarity by Comparison and Relationship: A Bedtime Reader for ...
Children in the group who heard songs in all four tonalities overall sang major tonal patterns with better intonation and more confidence than children comprising the remaining two groups. It may be concluded from the investigation that ...
Edwin E. Gordon, 2008
10
Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music
have determined what seems to me the predominant pitch of each bowl, but I doubt if these are the pitches Partch heard, since the tonalities do not always match. He did designate such found objects by pitch, though not in his score.
Ben Johnston, Bob Gilmore, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TONALITIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tonalities is used in the context of the following news items.
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Evan Parker/Alex von Schlippenbach: 3 Nights at Cafe Oto review …
... the second; and Thewes's long-tone purrs, supple runs and talkative, multiphonic sounds bring fresh tonalities and new conversational challenges to the third. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Firmenich Launches Sharing Innovation Collection 2015
Muscone Laevo: a soft musk reminiscent of sweet, elegant and warm animalic tonalities, building on Firmenich's unique legacy in musk tonalities. From its early ... «Food Ingredients First, Jul 15»
3
A critic's top Boston Grateful Dead shows
Sometimes it's from the combination of sounds I hear from the drums and the percussion. If I hear any interesting sounds or tonalities, I'll try to imitate them, and ... «Boston Globe, Jun 15»
4
June 24, 2015: DC Entertainment Announces SDCC Schedule
An impressive 19 panels will put the spotlight squarely on DC Comics' broad range of titles and tonalities, Vertigo's creator-driven, genre storytelling, and MAD's ... «Superman Super Site, Jun 15»
5
Matt Armor Still Rocks
... what he calls “the big truck-driving country” tonalities. “I like certain [genres of] country, and somebody wasn't hitting where I wanted to hit,” Armor elaborated. «Santa Barbara Independent, May 15»
6
Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld: Never Were the Way She Was
With its broad range of tonalities and textures, the saxophone offered an ideal aural palette for those looking to push the boundaries of classical music in the ... «PopMatters, May 15»
7
Michael Daugherty's 'Trail Of Tears Concerto'
His music is rich with cultural allusions and bears the stamp of classic modernism, with colliding tonalities and blocks of sound; at the same time, his melodies ... «WAMC, May 15»
8
See Jacob Lawrence's Migration Paintings At MoMA Starting …
Dickerman said, "It touches on different emotional tonalities between scenes of great tenderness and intimacy and scenes of terror and violence ... Throughout ... «Gothamist, Apr 15»
9
Unique PRS 9-string revealed and demoed
"It was meant to give the signature tonalities of a 1275 double neck but on a single neck. And it does." "There have been guitars coursed the other way, with the ... «MusicRadar.com, Feb 15»
10
"The Best Stories Become Canon" - Dan DiDio And Jim Lee At …
Jim Lee talked about how the books will have different tonalities, with a greater representation for women and racial diversity, saying “you can't publish the same ... «Bleeding Cool News, Feb 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tonalities [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tonalities>. May 2024 ».
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