TONALITY

tōnălˈĭtē, in music, quality by which all tones of a composition are heard in relation to a central tone called the keynote or tonic. In music that has harmony the terms key and tonality are practically synonymous, embracing a hierarchy of constituent chords, and a hierarchy of related keys. Some relationship to a tonic is characteristic of all music except that in which it is deliberately avoided (see atonality and serial music). The term tonality is also used in contrast to modality (see mode).

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books on: Tonality  - 2219 results

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Tonality and Atonality in Sixteenth-Century Music
Book by Edward E. Lowinsky, Igor Stravinsky; University of California Press, 1961
Subjects: Music--Theory--16th-17th Centuries, Tonality
Tonality and Atonality in Sixteenth-Century Music EDWARD E. LOWINSKY Tonality and Atonality in Sixteenth-Century Music With a Foreword...modern -- eighteenth-century major and minor mode -- "tonality," of the devices that support the great suspension bridge...
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Tonality in Modern Music
Book by Rudolph Reti; Collier, 1962
Subjects: Composition (Music), Music--Theory--20th Century
...the test of his concept of pantonality. RUDOLPH RETI TONALITY IN MODERN MUSIC COLLIER BOOKS NEW YORK, N. Y. Tonality in Modern Music originally appeared under the title Tonality, Atonality, Pantonality This Collier Books edition...
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Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form
Book by Susan McClary; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects: Blues (Music)--History And Criticism, Music--Social Aspects, Postmodernism, Tonality
...alk. paper) 1. Music and society. 2. Tonality. 3. Blues (Music) History and criticism...Blues 32 3. What Was Tonality? 63 4. The Refuge of...to focusing on formal procedures and tonality. For it had seemed when I was writing...
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Bartok's Chamber Music
Book by János Kárpáti; Pendragon Press, 1994
Subjects: Bartok, Bela--1881-1945--Chamber music, Chamber music--20th century--History and criticism
...169 6. Tonality and Polytonality--The Phenomenon of Mistuning...thirds it is not Brahmss kind of strong tonality which appears, but the veiled tonality characteristic of Wagner. At the same time...
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Music Here and Now
Book by Ernst KŘenek, Barthold Fles; W. W. Norton, 1939
Subjects: Music--20th Century--History And Criticism
...5. RISE AND DECLINE OF TONALITY 115...in stripping this triad harmony and tonality of the fetishism so often in evidence...contradict the hitherto reigning laws of tonality. He is not satisfied, either, merely...
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journal articles on: Tonality  - 247 results

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An Exploratory Investigation of Responses Elicited by Music Varying in Tempo, Tonality, and Texture
Journal article by James J. Kellaris; Journal of Consumer Psychology, Vol. 2, 1993
Subjects: Consumption (Economics)--Psychological Aspects--Periodicals
...Responses Elicited by Music Varying in Tempo, Tonality, and Texture James J. Kellaris...orthogonal manipulations of musical tempo, tonality, and texture. Three dimensions (pleasure...pleasure and arousal, and main effects of tonality on pleasure and surprise. Texture moderated...
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Exploring How Instruction in Style Affects Writing Quality
Journal article by Kim Sydow Campbell, Charlotte Brammer, Nicole Ervin; Business Communication Quarterly, Vol. 62, 1999
Subjects: Business communication--Technique, Letter writing--Technique, Tonality--Analysis
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The African Matrix in Jazz Harmonic Practices
Journal article by Gerhard Kubik; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 25, 2005
Subjects: African American music--Criticism and interpretation, African American music--Evaluation, African Americans--Criticism and interpretation, African Americans--Evaluation, African Americans--Music, Jazz music--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz music--Evaluation, Jazz--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--Evaluation
...own concepts, strongly rooted in blues tonality. From my viewpoint, as someone who has...of partials-derived systems, 3. blues tonality, 4. the concept of flexible pitch areas...of bourdon, the strongly centralized tonality, the blue notes, the often declamatory...
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Locating the Seri on the Musical Map of Indian North America
Journal article by Thomas Jr. Vennum; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: Culture--Mexico, Ethnomusicology--Research, Mexican native peoples, Mexico, Music--Mexico, Native Americans (Mexico)
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Social Disruption and Its Effects on Music: an Empirical Analysis
Journal article by Karen A. Cerulo; Social Forces, Vol. 62, 1984
Subjects: Social Problems, Social Service
...quantifiable analysis: melody, phrase structure, tonality, dynamics, rhythm, medium of expression...Melody Phrase Structure Tonality Dynamics Rhythm Medium of Expression...construction. Two of the variables, tonality and medium of expression, did not vary...
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magazine articles on: Tonality  - 185 results

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Secondhand Music: The Chance Harmonies of Everyday Sounds May Mean More Than We Think
Magazine article by Toby Lester; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, April 1997
Subjects: Music--Analysis, Musical intervals and scales--Analysis, Sound--Analysis, Sounds--Analysis, Tonality--Analysis
...known . . . have always been conceived in tonality, that is, in the sense of a tonal magnetic...interval there is-the absolute negation of tonality. And it is this interval . . . that the...busy signal is an unsettling negation of tonality. We know that, and thats why we hang...
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Music's Missing Magic: We Expect Nothing Less from Music Than That It Give Meaning to Our Lives. and for Centuries, Western Classical Music Did Just That. but in the 20th Century Many Composers Turned in a New and Less Satisfying Direction, and It's Unclear Whether Music Will Ever Regain What Was Lost
Magazine article by Miles Hoffman; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 29, Spring 2005
...defined major and minor keys is called tonality, or "tonal harmony," and music written...indeed take about a thousand years for tonality to evolve, and to find general acceptance...to put it another way, the origins of tonality lie not in a set of inventions and decisions...
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Atonality and Beyond: The Century When Composers and Audiences Parted Company
Magazine article by Sudip Bose; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Autumn 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Book)--Book reviews
...music, of course, is a progression from tonality to atonality, from consonance to dissonance...siecle Vienna, herald the break with tonality in varying degrees. Mahler died in 1911...Salome, which premiered in 1905, bends tonality in an even more daring way. At the end...
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When Music Resists Meaning: The Major Writings of Herbert Brun
Magazine article by Douglas Dutton; American Music Teacher, Vol. 54, October 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, When Music Resists Meaning: The Major Writings of Herbert Brun (Book)--Book reviews
...How does music fit into the social and political structure? What is the necessity of hierarchies of tonality? Why tonality? Why stop with tonality? What of sound itself?. Herbert Brun was vitally interested in these questions. He studied composition...
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Curves
Magazine article by Russell A. Rohde; PSA Journal, Vol. 64, August 1998
Subjects: Image processing--Digital techniques, Photography--Processing
...digital image analysis was done by examining the quality and tonality (color range) of pixels by studying their numerical distribution...circle at the point on the Curves graph corresponding to the tonality. With the curve anchored tightly about this point, the circled...
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Composers Advance into Past; Re-embrace Tonality, but Timidly
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 28, 2003
Composers advance into past; Re-embrace tonality, but timidly. Byline: T.L. Ponick, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON...and the Estonian Arvo Part. The minimalists had returned to tonality, but just barely, by employing short tonal motifs that they...
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NSO, Midori in Many Moods
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 13, 2007
Subjects: Concerts--Concert reviews
...Midori. The concert opened with Fines 1947 "Toccata concertante." An often flashy amalgam of modernist sensibilities and acidic tonality, the rondolike "Toccata" is an interesting piece by an American composer who was a contemporary of Leonard Bernsteins but whose...
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Weill's Music Rises Anew; BSO's Alsop Conducts Top-Notch LP
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 27, 2005
...the Nazis before World War II. The reintroduction of this rich lode of inventive compositions - which often employ extended tonality experiments instead of serialism - into the modern repertoire sheds light on a classical scene that is proving not nearly as...
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Mirror Works: A Flirty Job. but Someone Has to Do It
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), August 12, 2004
...signals, and things they expect to happen, dont. I put a lot of stress on teaching them how to use the correct body language, the tonality of their speech and how to come across as being confident. Is confidence important in flirting? Definitely. Confidence...
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Chris Robinson Goes the 'Distance'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 29, 2004
...Stacey, who co-produced and played an attic-full of guitars and keyboards on 2002s "New Earth Mud," is a specialist of space and tonality. Hes like a pointillist painter with a knack for choosing just-right musical dots and details. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Stacey...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tonality  - 22 results

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Tonality
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TONALITY tonal ite, in music, quality by which all tones of...tonic. In music that has harmony the terms key and tonality are practically synonymous, embracing a hierarchy of...avoided (see atonality and serial music ). The term tonality is also used in contrast to modality (see mode...
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Atonality
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...composer has deliberately rejected the principle of tonality . Tonality is a form of musical organization that involves a...were present in their music. The abandonment of tonality in the early 20th cent. by Schoenberg , Berg...
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Schoenberg, Arnold
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...name Schonberg. He revolutionized modern music by abandoning tonality and developing a twelve-tone, "serial" technique of composition...Garten, to poems of Stefan George , he completely abandoned tonality (see atonality ). His use of Sprechstimme, halfway between...
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Tonic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TONIC in music: see harmony ; key ; scale ; tonality . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Harmony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...During the 18th cent. the concept of tonality , with the major and minor modes as its...composers developed freer concepts of tonality; Liszt, Wagner, and Richard Strauss greatly...in the 20th cent., some have discarded tonality in favor of music that is composed in...
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