Sentence examples for basic tonal material from inspiring English sources
Noise is used as basic tonal material in electronic music.
The tonal material used in African musical traditions varies considerably from region to region.
It builds intelligently across a vast range of styles and tonal material.
Sounds ripple and echo around the tonal material, but there is nothing as traditional as a buildup or a breakdown — most of "Amok" simply kicks in and goes.
Polyphony took shape in terms of tonal material [21].
The period when primeval shape of musical notation appeared, along with advances in tonal material, texture, and rhythm.
A systematic organization of tonal materials also was gradually accomplished, resulting in the eight church modes.
Such gestures are a departure from Cage, who generally allowed tonal materials only as meaningless flotsam and jetsam, and from his ally Morton Feldman, who treated them as melancholy relics.
Like Feldman, Skempton's early music is often very static and usually chordal, but, unlike Feldman, he applied his outlook to tonal as well as non-tonal materials, and like the minimalists Riley and Reich, delighted in repetition and slowly changing patterns and processes – usually with a slight but crucial kink in the system.
