Tonality

This tonality is determined by the relative importance of horizontal and vertical lines: the horizontals giving a calm, cold tonality to the basic plane while the verticals impart a calm, warm tonality.

Brahms considered giving up composition when it seemed that other composers' innovations in extended tonality would result in the rule of tonality being broken altogether.

He concludes that Debussy's achievement was the synthesis of monophonic based "melodic tonality" with harmonies, albeit different from those of "harmonic tonality".

However, he provides one example as a way to compose atonal pieces, a pre-twelve-tone technique piece by Anton Webern, which rigorously avoids anything that suggests tonality, to choose pitches that do not imply tonality.

A less obliging recording like Scott Walker’s mildly bonkers loses a little of its menace thanks to this unthreatening tonality.

Body language and tonality can tell you a lot about if a person is fibbing you or if they are being genuine.

It reminded me of an approach I’d developed in rehearsal, to draw on the Eastern European music I knew, its vocal way with musical phrases, its emotionality, its eerie tonality.

Musical structures such as melody, harmony, tonality, rhythm, meter and form are absorbed naturally through an easygoing pedagogical method that integrates hand drumming, singing, body percussion, air drumming and music from around the world.

The orchestra's strength in its string section was majestically on display, pushing Schoenberg's envelope of tonality, carrying the notes from wisps of aural mist to climactic ending, under the baton of Dirk Meyer.

Additionally, tunes are occasionally played in Eb or Bb to match the tonality of flat pipes.

A diagonal possesses a more-or-less warm (or cold) tonality, according to its inclination toward the horizontal or the vertical.

Al Handa writes, "In Television's case, Lloyd was the guitarist who affected the tonality of the music more often than not, and Verlaine and the rhythm section the ones who gave the ear its anchor and familiar musical elements.

Although Bartók claimed in his writings that his music was always tonal, he rarely uses the chords or scales of tonality, and so the descriptive resources of tonal theory are of limited use.

A vertical line corresponds with height, and offers no support; it possesses a luminous, warm tonality close to white and yellow.

Bebop musicians eliminated Western-style functional harmony in their music while retaining the strong central tonality of the blues as a basis for drawing upon various African matrices.

Brown, Final, 423–4; Warrack, Symphonies, 9. Tchaikovsky kept the musical conversation flowing by treating melody, tonality, rhythm and sound color as one integrated unit, rather than as separate elements.

Denoël, 1989, p. 156 The mixing of white with black leads to gray, which possesses no active force and whose tonality is near that of green.

For him, pulsation and tonality were not just cultural artifacts.

Frequent moments of Tristan-inspired tonality mark Debussy's early compositions.

Gallimard, 1991, p. 67-71 The subjective effect produced by a line depends on its orientation: a horizontal line corresponds with the ground on which man rests and moves; it possesses a dark and cold affective tonality similar to black or blue.