tonality Meaning & Definition

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Meaning of tonality In English

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  • The changes to which the recurrence of melodic elements was subjected again constitute an exact correlation to 'floating tonality'.

  • There has been a wonderful history of written documents calling for the expansion of the sonic domain of music beyond the classical notions of tonality.

  • In one respect, however, the two strophes are musically unlike: tonality and harmonic direction.

  • It is not only in the question of tonality that music theorists have come to treat the eighteenth century more holistically than their historical counterparts.

  • Experimental evaluations have been undertaken with about sixty jazz standards in different tonalities.

  • Such an assumption over-simplifies, since to accept it would imply that diatonic, stable tonality inescapably expresses decisive, positive moods.

  • The tendency to posit links between separate, often distant numbers does not affect tonality alone.

  • His mature works, state the liner notes, give primacy to melody in the context of extended tonality.

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