Look up: tonality

1. 
   Tonality
   In music, tonality is a sense of key orientation in relation to form, for example the step pattern of a dance as expressed by corresponding changes of direction from a tonic or 'home' key to a related key. Most popular and folk music worldwide recognizes an underlying tonality or reference pitch against which the movement of a melody can be clearly heard. The opposite of tonality is atonality.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php
   
   
2. 
   Tonality
   relationship to A keynote or pivotal tone for A harmonic system
   Found on http://www.guitartools.co.uk/guitar_and_
   
   
3. 
   Tonality
   To·nal'i·ty noun [ Confer French tonalité .] (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 Fétis, term the pr ...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/67
   
   
4. 
   Tonality
   `Tonality` is a system of music in which certain hierarchical pitch relationships are based on a key `center` or tonic. The term `tonalité` originated with Alexandre Choron (1810) and was borrowed by François-Joseph Fétis in 1840 (Reti, 1958; Simms 1975, 119; Judd, 1998; Dahlhaus 1990). Although Fétis used it as a general term for a system of musical organization and spoke of `types de tonalités` rather than a single system, today the term is mos...
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonality
   
   
5. 
   Tonality
   • (n.) 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.
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
6. 
   tonality
   in music, principle of organizing musical compositions around a central note, the tonic. Generally, any Western or non-Western music periodically ... [15 related articles]
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/60
   
   
7. 
   tonality
   tonality 1. A system or an arrangement of seven tones built on a tonic key. 2. The arrangement of all the tones and chords of a composition in relation to a tonic. 3. The scheme or interrelation of the tones in a painting. 4. The relationship between the notes and chords of a passage or work that tends to establish a central note or harmony as its focal ...
   Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf
   
   
8. 
   tonality
   difference between the tone level and the level of the masking noise in the critical band around the tone NOTE - The tonality is expressed in decibels.
   Found on http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/
   
   
9. 
   tonality
   tonality (tōnăl'itē) , 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 ...
   Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A08490