Definitions for tonality

tonality to·nal·i·ty

Spelling: [toh-nal-i-tee]
IPA: /toʊˈnæl ɪ ti/

Tonality is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 198 anagrams from letters in tonality (ailnotty).

Definitions for tonality

noun

  1. Music. the sum of relations, melodic and harmonic, existing between the tones of a scale or musical system. a particular scale or system of tones; a key.
  2. (in painting, graphics, etc.) the system of tones or tints, or the color scheme, of a picture.
  3. the quality of tones.

Origin of tonality

First recorded in 1830-40; tonal + -ity

Examples for tonality

In the Dorian mode our sensations of tonality are more confused.

Yet it was in one tonality; there was no harmony, no melody.

But the difficulty is to prove the mode or first tonality of these gamuts.

The confusion which this plan produces in the sense of tonality can readily be imagined.

The episode you quote moves evidently in the tonality of G minor.

Regarding the tonality of these scales there is not very much to be said.

They also forget that his most important aid in this is the feeling of tonality.

For by this principle of tonality, melody and harmony as we know them became possible.

The tonality of the music of the ancients was wholly artificial and unreal.

It is a moaning and wailing theme, accompanied by harmonies shifting in tonality.

Word Value for tonality
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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