Sentence examples for tonality from inspiring English sources
The word 'tonality' is correct and usable in written English
Tonality is a term used to refer to the way music is composed or arranged in relation to a particular key or scale. For example: "The piece of music was composed in an upbeat, major tonality."
noun
The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.
The latter's harmonic idiom – often called atonal – also diverges strongly from Stravinsky's approach, which is essentially modal and hardly further removed from tonality than the work of his Parisian friends Debussy and Ravel.
Tap it, and a combination of non-linear adjustment and sharpening produces something that has the feel of being taken by a more expensive camera.And the technique known as high-dynamic range (HDR) imaging combines multiple images taken in rapid succession with different exposures to produce a single composite of extraordinary range of tonality.
Theodor Adorno, a left-wing sociologist and musician, wrote in 1949 that preserving tonality betrayed a fascist mentality.Under Stalin, Soviet art was rigorously policed to ensure that it reflected Soviet ideology.
But it was also a time when he was losing interest in tonality.
It was not just that he had decided tonality was dead; Schoenberg's 12-note serialism had already made dissonance routine.
Mr Ruscha is not reacting to anything tangible, rather he is picking up fragments of meaning from the ether, treating words like a jazz player riffing on a common melody, revealing the rich tonality of something we thought we knew.Edward Ruscha's work will be shown in the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, from June 7th-August 15th.
The key to his handling of large musical forms is a dramatic use of tonality over a long time span.
Richard Strauss's Elektra (1909) was one of the earliest works to make use of polytonality; in certain passages the instruments and voice parts are grouped into layers, each of which defines a different tonality, or key, although in this case all of the keys can also be interpreted as complicated aspects of the basic key.
This nontraditional harmonic tension is an aspect of the breakdown of normal Classical ways of establishing tonality, for which the 19th century (and Wagner in particular) is largely responsible.
In a comparable way, though in the context of a different style, some of the sonatas of Sergey Prokofiev use the outward formal divisions of the Classical sonata form but stress the interest of melody as such, leaving tonality still present in this case to play a decorative rather than a structural role.
One is an appeal to 'tonality' or essentially musical features such as pitch and rhythm (Scruton 1997, 1 79; Hamilton 2007, 40 65; Kania 2011a).
