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First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
Pierre Schaeffer

Meaning of "tonality" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TONALITY

tonality  [təʊˈnælɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TONALITY

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
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Tonality 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.

WHAT DOES TONALITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tonality

Tonality is a musical system in which pitches or chords are arranged so as to induce a hierarchy of perceived stabilities and attractions. The pitch or chord with the greatest stability is called the tonic. Tonality was the predominant musical system in the European tradition of classical music from the late 1500s until early in the 20th century. The term tonalité originated with Alexandre-Étienne Choron and was borrowed by François-Joseph Fétis in 1840. According to Carl Dahlhaus, however, the term tonalité was only coined by Castil-Blaze in 1821. Although Fétis used it as a general term for a system of musical organization and spoke of types de tonalités rather than a single system, today the term is most often used to refer to major–minor tonality, the system of musical organization of the common practice period. Major-minor tonality is also called harmonic tonality, diatonic tonality, common practice tonality, functional tonality, or just tonality.

Definition of tonality in the English dictionary

The definition of tonality in the dictionary is the actual or implied presence of a musical key in a composition. Other definition of tonality is the overall scheme of colours and tones in a painting.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TONALITY


additionality
əˌdɪʃəˈnælɪtɪ
banality
bəˈnælɪtɪ
cardinality
ˌkɑːdɪˈnælɪtɪ
carnality
kɑːˈnælɪtɪ
commonality
ˌkɒməˈnælɪtɪ
constitutionality
ˌkɒnstɪˌtjuːʃəˈnælɪtɪ
criminality
ˌkrɪmɪˈnælɪtɪ
emotionality
ɪˌməʊʃəˈnælɪtɪ
externality
ˌɛkstɜːˈnælɪtɪ
finality
faɪˈnælɪtɪ
internationality
ˌɪntəˌnæʃəˈnælɪtɪ
irrationality
ɪˌræʃəˈnælɪtɪ
marginality
ˌmɑːdʒɪˈnælɪtɪ
nationality
ˌnæʃəˈnælɪtɪ
originality
əˌrɪdʒɪˈnælɪtɪ
penality
pɪˈnælɪtɪ
personality
ˌpɜːsəˈnælɪtɪ
proportionality
prəˌpɔːʃəˈnælɪtɪ
rationality
ˌræʃəˈnælɪtɪ
venality
viːˈnælɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TONALITY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE TONALITY

ability
air quality
augmented reality
confidentiality
equality
functionality
homosexuality
hospitality
in reality
inequality
locality
low-quality
morality
mortality
municipality
quality
reality
sexuality
speciality
spirituality
vitality

Synonyms and antonyms of tonality in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tonality» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TONALITY

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

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tonalidad
570 millions of speakers

English

tonality
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रागिनी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نغمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тональность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tonalidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বনতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tonalité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tonality
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tonalität
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

調性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

색조
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tonality
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

âm giai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒலிகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रंगीत शालीनता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

renk uyumu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tonalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tonalność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тональність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tonalitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τονικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tonaliteit
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tonality
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tonalitet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tonality

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TONALITY»

The term «tonality» is regularly used and occupies the 70.039 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TONALITY» OVER TIME

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

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3 QUOTES WITH «TONALITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tonality.
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Conrad Hall
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
2
Arto Lindsay
We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play.
3
Pierre Schaeffer
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TONALITY»

Discover the use of tonality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tonality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond
Along the way, the book explores six methodological criteria that help in building, testing, and evaluating a plausible theory of tonality or, indeed, any other musical phenomenon: accuracy, scope, fruitfulness, consistency, simplicity, and ...
Matthew Brown, 2005
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Twelve-tone Tonality
In this classic work, George Perle argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements.
George Perle, 1977
3
Tonality and Transformation
This is a study in the analysis of tonal music.
Steven Rings, 2011
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Debussy and the Veil of Tonality: Essays on His Music
This new book on Debussy's music comprises analytical studies of individual works not widely examined previously, including the Fantaisie for piano and orchestra, La Damoiselle Clue, Nuages, and Gigues among them.
Mark DeVoto, 2004
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The Music of Béla Bartók: A Study of Tonality and ...
Elliott Antokoletz here demonstrates that the remarkable continuity of style in Bartók's evolution is founded upon an all-encompassing system of pitch relations in which one can draw together the diverse pitch formations in his music under ...
Elliott Antokoletz, 1984
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Tonality as Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four ...
"Tonality as Drama is not a textbook - rather, it is an innovative analytical study meant to inspire changes in the study and performance of tonal opera.
Edward David Latham, 2008
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Towards Tonality: Aspects of Baroque Music Theory
This collection of essays is based on lectures presented during the conference "Historical Theory, Performance, and Meaning in Baroque Music," organized by the International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory in Ghent, Belgium.
Peter Dejans, 2007
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Music and Twentieth-Century Tonality: Harmonic Progression ...
This book explores the web of pitch relations that generates the musical language of non-serialized twelve-tone music and supplies both the analytical materials and methods necessary for analyses of a vast proportion of the 20th century ...
Paolo Susanni, Elliott Antokoletz, 2012
9
Hugo Wolf's Lieder and Extensions of Tonality
Study of the harmonic language of the late 19c based on songs by Hugo Wolf.
Deborah J. Stein, 1991
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Tonality in Austronesian Languages
This volume represents a collaborative effort of nine scholars of Chinese religion, history, and thought to begin addressing this question.
Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Jerold A. Edmondson, Kenneth Gregerson, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TONALITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tonality is used in the context of the following news items.
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Recensione Tonality 1.2, la fotocamera in bianco e nero
Tonality può essere scaricata come software stand alone ed esiste in due versioni. La “normale”, da 14,99 euro (grazie ad una operazione sconto, prezzo intero ... «Macity, Jul 15»
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MacPhun sees the world in black and white with Tonality Pro 1.2
But Tonality Pro, like MacPhun's other Mac-only photo-editing apps, does it differently. It gives you dozens of possible treatments for your images that you might ... «TechRadar, Jun 15»
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Macphun Tonality Pro 1.2 : mise à jour d'importance
Tonality Pro, qui est déjà passé en français, bénéficie d'une mise à jour, certes pas majeure, mais amenant, outre la prise en charge de nouveaux fichiers Raw, ... «Le monde de la photo, Jun 15»
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Tonality 1.2 unterstützt Fotos-App, Force Touch und weitere RAWs
Die professionelle Bildbearbeitung Tonality bietet in Version 1.2 neue Funktionen für eine bessere Nachbearbeitung von Schwarz/Weiß-Fotos - die sich ... «MacTechNews.de, Jun 15»
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Ornette Coleman, Jazz Iconoclast, Dies At 85
Ornette Coleman, the American saxophonist and composer who liberated jazz from conventional harmony, tonality, structure and expectation, died early on ... «NPR, Jun 15»
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Get 10% Off Tonality Pro With ePHOTOzine
Tonality Pro is an award winning black and white image maker that can also be used as a plugin with Lightroom, Aperture and Photoshop. With powerful tools ... «ePHOTOzine, May 15»
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Three faculty members receive American Council of Learned …
The project explores the idea of tonality—the system of organizing sounds that ... “I'm essentially writing a kind of biography of musical tonality,” Christensen said ... «UChicago News, Apr 15»
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Robertson, St. Louis Symphony inflame and illuminate Debussy …
But there is every incentive—more than any other composer, Debussy preserved the relevance of tonality into the modern and contemporary eras, and also ... «New York Classical Review, Mar 15»
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Tonality Pro Review – Take Your Black and White Photography to …
Thus, the Tonality Pro app provides you with a powerful environment for all aspects of black and white photo editing and processing. Moreover, it does all this ... «Softpedia, Jan 15»
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Macphun Tonality Earns 'Best Of 2014' Honours
Every year, editors on the App Store pick their favourite apps of the year – and Macphun Tonality appears in the top apps listing this year. The honor represents ... «ePHOTOzine, Dec 14»

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