tonality

Example Sentences

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The instructive leap, though, comes in the show’s single representational oil painting, accompanied by three related drawings that focus on tonality, line and color.

From Los Angeles Times

Bond markets, perhaps more engrossed in the technical analysis of policy, were not as smitten by the chair’s tonality; inflation expectations reflected by bond yields and currency rates moved more modestly.

From Reuters

So what we did was getting away as much as we could, while respecting the melody and the tempo of the song and the tonality of most of the songs.

From Seattle Times

I had a teenage attraction to difficulty, and I was becoming more interested in complex tonalities.

From New York Times

As for the sound, he added, “I honestly had no expectation for the tonal aspects of the instrument. Since there’s no precedent for the tonality it would sound like whatever it did.”

From New York Times