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- noun Plural form of
tonality .
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Examples
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Peter Schat proposed the "Tone Clock," a triad-based system which expands on the tonal ideas of Rameau, thus creating 12 distinct "tonalities".
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One, the 50 minutes of weird, alien "electronic tonalities" that constitute the music score.
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Beckmesser, a pedantic city clerk in medieval Nuremberg, is modeled on Eduard Hanslick, a conservative music critic who attacked Wagner's progressive tonalities.
Elisabeth Braw: Glyndebourne's Meistersinger: A Triumph Elisabeth Braw 2011
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Beckmesser, a pedantic city clerk in medieval Nuremberg, is modeled on Eduard Hanslick, a conservative music critic who attacked Wagner's progressive tonalities.
Elisabeth Braw: Glyndebourne's Meistersinger: A Triumph Elisabeth Braw 2011
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Beckmesser, a pedantic city clerk in medieval Nuremberg, is modeled on Eduard Hanslick, a conservative music critic who attacked Wagner's progressive tonalities.
Elisabeth Braw: Glyndebourne's Meistersinger: A Triumph Elisabeth Braw 2011
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One, the 50 minutes of weird, alien "electronic tonalities" that constitute the music score.
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Gershwin was not a jazz musician; his music is not jazz, but his inherent sensitivity to African-American music allowed him to create music that was intelligently and rewardingly coloured by its textures and tonalities.
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres at New York's Aeolian Hall 2011
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Tesknota , Polish for nostalgia, echoes with "tonalities of sadness and longing."
New Ways Of Portraying Lives Lyndall Gordon 2011
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Gershwin was not a jazz musician; his music is not jazz, but his inherent sensitivity to African-American music allowed him to create music that was intelligently and rewardingly coloured by its textures and tonalities.
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres at New York's Aeolian Hall 2011
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Beckmesser, a pedantic city clerk in medieval Nuremberg, is modeled on Eduard Hanslick, a conservative music critic who attacked Wagner's progressive tonalities.
Elisabeth Braw: Glyndebourne's Meistersinger: A Triumph Elisabeth Braw 2011
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