Associations to the word «Tonality»

Wiktionary

TONALITY, noun. (music) The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.
TONALITY, noun. (music) A sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre.
TONALITY, noun. (music) The quality of all the tones in a composition heard in relation to the tonic.
TONALITY, noun. The interrelation of the tones in a painting.

Dictionary definition

TONALITY, noun. Any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne