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tonality


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tonality  \To*nal"i*ty\,  n.  [Cf.  F.  tonalit['e].]  (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 
  F['e]tis,  term  the  principle  of  tonality.  --Helmholtz. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  tonality 
  n  :  any  of  24  major  or  minor  diatonic  scales  that  provide  the 
  tonal  framework  for  a  piece  of  music  [syn:  {key}]  [ant:  {atonality}] 




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