1. (noun)key, tonality any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
Definitions of 'tonality'
Webster 1913 Dictionary
1. (noun)tonality 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 familyrelationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole