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Tonality   /toʊnˈæləti/   Listen
noun
Tonality  n.  (Mus.) 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. "The predominance of the tonic as the link which connects all the tones of a piece, we may, with Fétis, term the principle of tonality."






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"Tonality" Quotes from Famous Books



... never ceased for six days was no longer heard, though the air continued to hum with the vibrations of the diabolical tone. The black friar knelt beside the dying one, and drawing an ivory crucifix from his habit held it to Mendoza's face. Baruch, aroused by the cessation of the torturing tonality, opened his eyes, which were as black as blood, saw the symbol of Christianity, and with a final effort forced from ...
— Melomaniacs • James Huneker



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