Definitions for tonalities

tonalities to·nal·i·ty

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

Tonalities is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 739 anagrams from letters in tonalities (aeiilnostt).

Definitions for tonalities

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 tonalities

First recorded in 1830-40; tonal + -ity

Examples for tonalities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for tonalities
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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