Antonyms for tonality

Grammar : Noun

Spell : toh-nal-i-tee

Phonetic Transcription : toʊˈnæl ɪ ti

Definition of tonality

Origin : 1824; see tonal + -ity.

noun tone

Example sentences :

Yet it was in one tonality; there was no harmony, no melody.
Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker

The tonality of the music of the ancients was wholly artificial and unreal.
Extract from : « A Popular History of the Art of Music » by W. S. B. Mathews

Regarding the tonality of these scales there is not very much to be said.
Extract from : « The Modes of Ancient Greek Music » by David Binning Monro

The episode you quote moves evidently in the tonality of G minor.
Extract from : « Piano Playing » by Josef Hofmann

For by this principle of tonality, melody and harmony as we know them became possible.
Extract from : « The Galaxy, June 1877 » by Various

It is a moaning and wailing theme, accompanied by harmonies shifting in tonality.
Extract from : « Franz Liszt » by James Huneker

In the Dorian mode our sensations of tonality are more confused.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 1 » by Various

They also forget that his most important aid in this is the feeling of tonality.
Extract from : « The Head Voice and Other Problems » by D. A. Clippinger

But the difficulty is to prove the mode or first tonality of these gamuts.
Extract from : « Delsarte System of Oratory » by Various

The confusion which this plan produces in the sense of tonality can readily be imagined.
Extract from : « Music As A Language » by Ethel Home

Synonyms for tonality

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