Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality...
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Dynamic tonality is a paradigm for tuning and timbre which generalizes the special relationship between just intonation, and the harmonic series to apply...
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a tonality diamond is a two-dimensional diagram of ratios in which one dimension is the Otonality and one the Utonality. Thus the n-limit tonality diamond...
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Level (music) (redirect from Tonality level)
A level, also "tonality level", Gerhard Kubik's "tonal step," "tonal block," and John Blacking's "root progression," is an important melodic and harmonic...
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Atonality (redirect from Post tonality)
study of tonality, which was later expanded into his doctoral thesis. Their music arose from what was described as the "crisis of tonality" between the...
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Progressive tonality is the music compositional practice whereby a piece of music does not finish in the key in which it began, but instead 'progresses'...
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In image editing, a curve is a remapping of image tonality, specified as a function from input level to output level, used as a way to emphasize colours...
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George Perle (redirect from Twelve-tone tonality)
Perle composed with a technique of his own devising called "twelve-tone tonality". This technique was different from, but related to, the twelve-tone technique...
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Function (music) (redirect from Nonfunctional tonality)
three triads were soon considered the most important chords of the major tonality, with the tonic in the center, the dominant above and the subdominant under...
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Twelve-tone music, seen as an extension of tonality to all keys (rather than to no key) Nonfunctional tonality or pandiatonicism Bitonality This disambiguation...
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Major and minor (redirect from Gender of tonalities)
changes unless structurally supported because the root and overall key and tonality remain unchanged. This is in contrast with, for instance, transposition...
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Common practice period (redirect from Common practice tonality)
tonality", or sometimes the "tonal system" (though whether tonality implies common-practice idioms is a question of debate). Common-practice tonality...
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Aeolian mode (redirect from Aeolian tonality)
is a list of some examples that are distinguishable from ordinary minor tonality, which also uses the melodic minor scale and the harmonic minor scale as...
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Vier Lieder (Schoenberg) (section Tonality)
sexuality. Schoenberg was inspired by Dehmel's poetry to explore new forms of tonality. The four songs are: Erwartung Jesus bettelt (Schenk mir deinen goldenen...
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Romantic period, composers explored dramatic chromatic alterations of tonality, such as extended chords and altered chords, which created new sound "colors...
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Post-tonal music theory (redirect from Post-tonality)
Post-tonal music theory is the set of theories put forward to describe music written outside of, or 'after', the tonal system of the common practice period...
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Der Ring des Nibelungen (section Tonality)
Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works...
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Yoruba (US: /ˈjɔːrəbə/, UK: /ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. Èdè Yorùbá, IPA: [jōrùbá]; Ajami: عَٜدَٜی يُواْرُبَا) is a language that is spoken in West Africa, primarily...
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chromatic scale sequence) to create a prelude in each major and minor tonality. The preludes were perhaps not intended to be played as a group, and may...
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Joseph Yasser (redirect from A Theory of Evolving Tonality)
institutions, Yasser is noted for his 1932 publication, A Theory of Evolving Tonality. He was active until his death at age 88 in 1981. Yasser was married but...
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period (1580–1750) saw the relative standardization of common-practice tonality, as well as the increasing importance of musical instruments, which grew...
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Tonality flux is Harry Partch's term for the kinds of subtle harmonic changes that can occur in a microtonal context from notes moving from one chord to...
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composer of sacred music. The Baroque saw the creation of common-practice tonality, an approach to writing music in which a song or piece is written in a...
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that of a modernist, albeit one who still utilized and sometimes revered tonality and lush orchestration. Strauss is noted for his pioneering subtleties...
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Distinctive feature (section Tonality)
In linguistics, a distinctive feature is the most basic unit of phonological structure that distinguishes one sound from another within a language. For...
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833 cents scale (redirect from The Tonality of the Golden Section)
tunings). Other music theorists such as Walter O'Connell, in his 1993 "The Tonality of the Golden Section", and Lorne Temes in 1970, appear to have also created...
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tonalities (D♭, the lowered second degree – in the first theme). The coda returns to the material of the development section but with stable tonality...
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the fourth bar. As a result, parts are constantly singing in different tonality (key) simultaneously (in G and in A). As a traditional style, sutartines...
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than just these seven notes. Chromaticism is in contrast or addition to tonality or diatonicism and modality (the major and minor, or "white key", scales)...
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Eastern, Oriental, medieval Eastern Orthodox and standard Western European tonalities and modes. Bulgarian folk music has a distinctive sound and uses a wide...
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