'Tonality' definitions:
Definition of 'tonality'
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Definition of 'Tonality'
From: GCIDE
- Tonality \To*nal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. tonalit['e].] (Mus.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- The predominance of the tonic as the link which connects all the tones of a piece, we may, with F['e]tis, term the principle of tonality. --Helmholtz. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tonality'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arc lighting,
- black and white,
- chiaroscuro,
- clang color,
- classical pitch,
- color,
- coloring,
- contrast,
- decorative lighting,
- depth,
- direct lighting,
- dominant,
- dulcetness,
- electric lighting,
- enlightenment,
- festoon lighting,
- floodlighting,
- fluorescent lighting,
- French pitch,
- gaslighting,
- glow lighting,
- height,
- high pitch,
- highlights,
- illumination,
- incandescent lighting,
- indirect lighting,
- irradiation,
- key,
- key signature,
- keynote,
- Klangfarbe,
- light and shade,
- lighting,
- low pitch,
- major,
- major key,
- mediant,
- mellifluence,
- mellifluousness,
- melodiousness,
- melody,
- minor,
- musical quality,
- musical sound,
- musicality,
- new philharmonic pitch,
- note,
- overhead lighting,
- pedal point,
- philharmonic pitch,
- philosophical pitch,
- pitch,
- radiation,
- register,
- spot lighting,
- stage lighting,
- standard pitch,
- strip lighting,
- subdominant,
- submediant,
- subtonic,
- supertonic,
- sweetness,
- timbre,
- tone,
- tone color,
- tone quality,
- tonic,
- tonic key,
- tune,
- tunefulness