tonality
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6.8
- noun
- /toʊˈnælɪti/
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tonalidad
- The tonality of her voice conveyed a sense of calm and reassurance.
You will see these changes of tone, of tonality, of dynamic.
- You will see these changes of tone, of tonality, of dynamic.
- The drama is in the tonalities that you switch.
- Be mindful of your tonality because if you sound weak, you are weak.
- And then when I'm in business meetings now, I'm noticing emotions on people and facial expressions and tonality that I wasn't paying attention to.
- There is enough evidence to bury him because just off his voice alone in the tonality of his voice, yes.
- So I want to listen for the the pace that they speak at, the cadence, also the tonality.
- There aren't a lot that have the power and tonality.
- I don't really think about those as much as all those other tonalities.
- A downswing in tonality actually has an authoritative listening to it.
- And so in the same sense, when you're in the clothes, I use a ton of humor and that tonality to defuse hard conversations.
Examples
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About this time, too, she had a vision different in its overall feel and tonality from those she was accustomed to.
Fiction book (1994) -
He had a knack for intuiting the proper tonality of her speech and compensating instantly.
Fiction book (1999) -
The tonality in this area is really nice.
Academic text (1994) -
The focus is on texture and tonality rather than the subject itself.
Academic text (2006) -
However, the image lacks punch; the flowers' tonality is quite similar to the background.
Academic text (2010) -
Be mindful of your tonality because if you sound weak, you are weak.
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Therefore, it is important that the student be able to create the appropriate tonality through silent audiation to appropriately execute the singing of the scale.
Academic text (2012) -
Tonality is an essential part of the Craton's speech, but that's just the start of it.
Fiction book (1999) -
Interpreters who approach Lonergan through Method in Theology and his other later writings encounter a significantly different tonality of expression.
Academic text (2001) -
Because many students today lack the readiness to begin instruction on an instrument and because others need to apply their musicianship to the instrument, it is necessary for the teacher to teach all students to audiate a sense of tonality and a sense of meter while at the same time teaching instrumental technique.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
128
4.1
The pitch of a syllable that changes a word's meaning in languages like Mandarin
28
3.1
The way someone speaks that shows their feelings or mood
9
8.2
The special tone that makes voices or instruments sound different
How Tonal
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6.8
- Specialized
1
9.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tonality comes from the word tone, from an old Greek tonos meaning 'pitch', and it keeps the idea of a sound's character or mood. So when we speak of a warm tonality in a voice or a calm tonality in a speech, we mean the feeling or quality of the sound.