tonality

Example Sentences

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“It’s a change of tonality without a change of policy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

Uncompromising and innovative, he devised the 12-tone method, a musical structure that broke with the traditional rules of tonality and composition.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025

“This time, however, we did it the wrong way. We lacked sensitivity around an incredibly serious tragedy, and our tonality was completely inappropriate. We are so sorry.”

From Seattle Times • May 23, 2023

But this production imbues modern vernacular in its tonality, and in a way that the audience understands.

From Salon • May 18, 2023

Of all his impressionable Viennese pupils, none embraced this dismantling of tonality quite as enthusiastically as Arnold Schoenberg.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall