tonality

English

Etymology

From French tonalité.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ælɪti

Noun

tonality (countable and uncountable, plural tonalities)

1. (music) The system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.
2. (music) A sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre.
3. (music) The quality of all the tones in a composition heard in relation to the tonic.
4. The interrelation of the tones in a painting.

Translations

system of seven tones and tonic key

• Belarusian: тана́льнасць f (tanálʹnascʹ)
• Bulgarian: тона́лност (bg) f (tonálnost)
• Catalan: tonalitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 調性／调性 (zh) (diàoxìng)

• Danish: tonalitet c
• Finnish: tonaalisuus (fi)
• French: tonalité (fr) f
• Kazakh: тоналдық (tonaldyq), үндестілік (ündestılık)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tonalitet m

  Nynorsk: tonalitet m

• Occitan: tonalitat (oc) f
• Polish: tonalność (pl) f
• Portuguese: tonalidade (pt) f
• Russian: тона́льность (ru) f (tonálʹnostʹ)
• Swedish: tonalitet (sv) c
• Ukrainian: тона́льність (uk) f (tonálʹnistʹ)