Main Entry:to�nal�i�ty Pronunciation:t*-*na-l*-t* Function:noun Inflected Form:plural -ties Date:1838
1 : tonal quality 2 a : KEY 7 b : the organization of all the tones and harmonies of a piece of music in relation to a tonic 3 : the arrangement or interrelation of the tones of a work of visual art Main Entry:1ton�ic Pronunciation:*t*-nik Function:adjective Etymology:Greek tonikos, from tonos tension, tone Date:1649 1 a : characterized by tonus *tonic contraction of muscle*; also : marked by prolonged muscular contraction *tonic convulsions* b : producing or adapted to produce healthy muscular condition and reaction of organs (as muscles) 2 a : increasing or restoring physical or mental tone : REFRESHING b : yielding a tonic substance 3 : relating to or based on the first tone of a scale *tonic harmony* 4 of a syllable : bearing a principal stress or accent 5 : of or relating to speech tones or to languages using them to distinguish words otherwise identical -ton�i�cal�ly \*t*-ni-k(*-)l*\ adverb Terrell D Lewis Music For A New Age http://angelfire.lycos.com/music5/hymnal http://stage.vitaminic.com/main/terrell_lewis/ http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/418/terrell_d_lewis.html http://www.freepraiseandworship.com/cgi-bin/files/list/5663.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darcy James Argue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 8:20 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN Tonality > > On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 07:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 11/15/2002 3:55:54 PM Pacific Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > << Yours ain't the definition of "tonality" I was taught. >> > > > > Correct: it's a definition of tonality as an over-arching > > organizational > > scheme in musical form. > > > > "Tonality"--the word--needs to cast a very wide net; it would include > > all > > music that employs a tonal center in ANY way. --David A. Lawrence > > So... let me get this straight. Your definition of tonality > encompasses every type of music made by every culture in the world > using every system of pitch organization ever conceived throughout all > of human history... *except* a comparatively small subset of works > written by certain 20th-century Western art music composers? > > I'm even open to the idea that what I just described might even be a > meaningful category -- but I think claiming that what all of these > musics have in common is "tonality" is flat-out absurd. > > - Darcy > > ----- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Boston MA > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
