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Definitions for Tonality
toʊˈnæl ɪ titonal·i·ty

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. key, tonalitynoun

    any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music

Wiktionary

  1. tonalitynoun

    The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.

  2. tonalitynoun

    A sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre.

  3. tonalitynoun

    The quality of all the tones in a composition heard in relation to the tonic.

  4. tonalitynoun

    The interrelation of the tones in a painting.

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  1. tonality

    Tonality is a system in music where a specific note, known as the tonic, is identified as the root or central pitch around which other notes, scales, keys, and chords are organized, creating a hierarchical structure. This concept, which is prevalent in Western classical music, aids in defining the sense of resolution or completion and establishing a piece’s primary key or 'home' sound.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tonalitynoun

    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

Wikidata

  1. Tonality

    Tonality is a system/language of music in which specific hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key "center"—the tonic triad; that is, on hierarchical relationships between the triads. The term tonalité originated with Alexandre-Étienne Choron and was borrowed by François-Joseph Fétis in 1840. 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, and of Western-influenced popular music throughout much of the world today.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tonality in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Tonality in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Tonality in a Sentence

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    It seems to me that our American colleagues should now be somewhat distracted from the instructive tonality that they have been spreading over the years in relation to other countries, take a look in the mirror and then describe everything that they saw there in statements, like those they addressed to many countries of the world, we presume that, in carrying out measures to curb looting and other illegal actions, the authorities should not violate the rights of Americans to peaceful protest.

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