Crossword-Solution: TONALITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “TONALITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Arrangement of color values | 1 answer |
| Character determined by key, in music | 1 answer |
| Color scheme | 1 answer |
| In music, a key. | 1 answer |
| Key characteristic? | 1 answer |
| Musical quality | 4 answers |
| speech pattern | 12 answers |
| Musical key | 13 answers |
| tone of voice | 14 answers |
| sonority | 15 answers |
| timbre | 15 answers |
| Intonation. | 19 answers |
| Inflection | 24 answers |
| Melody | 48 answers |
| ACCENT ___ | 57 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with TONALITY (5)
Though the tonality is at first firmly established, yet as the movement becomes more agitated, the final tendency of the modulations also becomes uncertain, and for a few bars it would seem as if the key of F-sharp minor might be the point of destination.
The song seemed to be in the old Irish tonality and the singer seemed uncertain both of his words and of his voice.
Besides which it seems to me that the sentiment and spiritual tonality of the Psalm do not move in the masculinum.
Tonality is said to be present in a piece of music when every element in it is referred to, gets its significance from its relation to, a fundamental tone, the tonic.
The fundamental was imaged TOGETHER WITH every other note, and when a group of such references often appeared together, the feelings bound up with the single reference (interval-feelings) fused into a single feeling,-- the tonality-feeling.
Quotes with TONALITY (3)
When I was first aware that I had been laid low by the disease, I felt a need, among other things, to register a strong protest against the word "depression." Depression, most people know, used to be termed "melancholia," a word which appears in English as the year 1303 and crops up more than once in Chaucer, who in his usage seemed to be aware of its pathological nuances. "Melancholia" would still appear to be a far more apt and evocative word for the blacker forms of the di…
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1959–2015).