Tonalities

What Subramaniam suggests using the popularity of Indian film music as an example is that with a method and concept, it will allow for non-westerners to create western compositions, and western musicians to use other tonalities.

But it can also be edgy — even anomalous — utilizing a variety of tonalities, materials and prints.

In reality, Robusti was capable of spending hours to perfect the portrayal of a garment’s hem, the tonalities of flesh, the position of St. John the Baptist’s hand.

So the artist added subtle tonalities in charcoal to give his subjects dimensionality after the layers of paint dried.

The DX-7 was known for its recognizable bright tonalities that was partly due to an overachieving sampling rate of 57 kHz.

There has also been the fact that the composer did not follow sonata form strictly, relying instead on juxtaposing blocks of tonalities and thematic groups.

The Rococo palette is softer and paler than the rich primary colors and dark tonalities favored in Baroque tastes.

This leads to greater volume and longer sustain but compromises the subtle tonalities of the Spanish sound.