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Tonality

noun

Any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music. Synonym: key.

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... evidence of genius. Composers seem to forget that the singer must create the pitch of his instrument as well as its quality at the moment he uses it. They also forget that his most important aid in this is the feeling of tonality. When this is destroyed and the singer is forced to measure intervals abstractedly he is called upon to do something immeasurably more difficult than anything that is asked of the instrumentalist. Many modern composers have lost their heads and run amuck on the modern idiom, and ...

— The Head Voice and Other Problems - Practical Talks on Singing • D. A. Clippinger

Words linked to "Tonality" : major mode, atonality, tonal, musical notation, minor key, tonic key, minor mode, home key, major key