tonality
ടോണാലിറ്റി
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In music, melody and tonality became old-fashioned, and the twelve tone row and atonality reigned supreme in ‘serious’ composition.
the character of a piece of music as determined by the key in which it is played or the relations between the notes of a scale or key.
Its semi-finished state and near monochrome, cold blue tonality indicate that it is a surviving design for the relief.
the color scheme or range of tones used in a picture.
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the five canvases are predominantly blue in 'tonality'
It is ambient and it is thought-provoking on even the most rudimentary level, with expression seldom falling into obviousness - either in terms of lyrics, melody or 'tonality' .
Butcher is famed for recreating, in vivid 'tonality' and detail, the threatened Florida Everglades wilderness swamps, with their dense foliage and moss-draped cypress trees.
Bartok was a radical, even in the early piano music he was experimenting with conventional harmonies and 'tonality' .
There are many ways to create and release tension in music, and 'tonality' is one way to do that, according to specific principles, with harmony.
A final chapter deals with Bach's use of 'tonality' and modulation.
Some critics even suggested that the pervasive blue-violet 'tonality' typical of impressionism was symptomatic of some kind of visual disorder suffered by the artists.
Its semi-finished state and near monochrome, cold blue 'tonality' indicate that it is a surviving design for the relief.
He also writes music - exploring the farthest reaches of 'tonality' and texture - for the two tenor saxes, bass and drums of his own band.
It is not fortuitous that the key is D minor, a 'tonality' traditionally associated with quest, especially by the Viennese classics, and perhaps by the High Baroque masters as well.
Characteristically the paintings are grey in 'tonality' , which together with their dusty-looking surfaces and the skeletal proportions of the figures often conveys a ghostly feeling.
Then there's Bartok's stretched 'tonality' , the expressive dissonances that result only partly from his use of scales and modes from eastern European folk music, the downright virtuosity of the writing, especially for piano.
the first bar would seem set to create a 'tonality' of C major
In the ‘Rubaiyat’, the lightness of the flowers is emphasised by the dark green shade of the leaves, while their colouring relates to the rather dark 'tonality' employed in the miniatures.
A similar sensitivity to 'tonality' permeates his music today.
The lighting too is questionable, reduced in some rooms to levels which, while they might suit the 'tonality' of Picasso, can kill the often subtle colours of Matisse.
This 35-minute symphony in one movement could hardly be more serious, and it finds the composer embracing 'tonality' and convention in a manner that would have been unthinkable to him twenty years earlier.
His pieces are too monotonous in rhythm and weak in melody to be really interesting, and his experiments in 'tonality' are indecisive.
The fleet finale, lasting less than two minutes, is a wonder, with harmony and 'tonality' largely in shreds.
Look at its Corot-esque, grey 'tonality' and its fleeting brushwork.
This very ordinary subject is transformed by its subtlety of 'tonality' ; for Levitan had become a master of rendering the gradations of light as the sky darkens at dusk and moonlight establishes itself.
'Giverny' is one of only two known paintings from this period - a small-scale but richly varied landscape within the context of its wintry 'tonality' .
In the work's outer sections, Nielsen uses dark, misty scoring and uncertain 'tonality' to indicate the castle's incorporeal presence.
The image has a washed-out, filtered 'tonality' offset by Hong's striking - if not disturbing - hand-painted washes of blood-red ink.
the first bar would seem set to create a 'tonality' of C major
Rubens's northern inheritance, which included painting on panels rather than canvas, brought into play a cooler range of colours, including bluer fleshtones and, generally, a softer overall 'tonality' .
Moreover, the pictures employ a lush 'tonality' and fussy delight in detail, not the austere formal economy associated with modernist photographic aesthetics.
Aspects of his style are indebted to Manet and Sickert, the former in the alla prima succulence of paint application, the latter in muted, at times almost murky, close 'tonality' in the depiction of crowds.
In music, melody and 'tonality' became old-fashioned, and the twelve tone row and atonality reigned supreme in ‘serious’ composition.
On the other hand, if large amounts of well-preserved authentic paint are obscured, it is usually worthwhile revealing them and regaining the 'tonality' of the original colours.
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