tonality
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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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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.
The image has a washed-out, filtered 'tonality' offset by Hong's striking - if not disturbing - hand-painted washes of blood-red ink.
In the work's outer sections, Nielsen uses dark, misty scoring and uncertain 'tonality' to indicate the castle's incorporeal presence.
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.
Moreover, the pictures employ a lush 'tonality' and fussy delight in detail, not the austere formal economy associated with modernist photographic aesthetics.
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.
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.
A final chapter deals with Bach's use of 'tonality' and modulation.
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.
Bartok was a radical, even in the early piano music he was experimenting with conventional harmonies and 'tonality' .
The foggy 'tonality' of the painting shifts the association to older and more chaste modern textile designs.
'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' .
This is one of those few works in which Rodrigo chose to set aside conventional 'tonality' ; the results are not difficult for the average listener to enjoy, however.
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.
the five canvases are predominantly blue in 'tonality'
After all, you have tonality in modal music; you have 'tonality' in folk music that has nothing to do with the triadic system.
Its semi-finished state and near monochrome, cold blue 'tonality' indicate that it is a surviving design for the relief.
In music, melody and 'tonality' became old-fashioned, and the twelve tone row and atonality reigned supreme in ‘serious’ composition.
these pieces are more dissonant than my earlier works, yet I did not give up 'tonality'
Look at its Corot-esque, grey 'tonality' and its fleeting brushwork.
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.
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' .
Conventional 'tonality' , classical rhythmic structures and developmental discourse were all replaced in favor of much different techniques.
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.
The men echoed the women, making for a complex dovetailed sound with shifting 'tonality' and a surprise ending - the final high shimmering chord constructed from string harmonics leaves some mysticism in the air.
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.
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.
Wagner, Mahler and Sibelius all used 'tonality' and key centres to powerful ends, and the blaze of A major must have meant a great deal to Messiaen.
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' .
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.
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