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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