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  2. Tonality - Wikipedia

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    Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and / or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or the root of a triad with the greatest stability in a melody or in its harmony is called the tonic. In this context "stability" approximately means ...

  3. Category:Tonality - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Tonality" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  4. Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...

  5. Key (music) - Wikipedia

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    Methods that establish the key for a particular piece can be complicated to explain and vary over music history. [citation needed] However, the chords most often used in a piece in a particular key are those that contain the notes in the corresponding scale, and conventional progressions of these chords, particularly cadences, orient the listener around the tonic.

  6. Tonal memory - Wikipedia

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    The results of the test showed that many factors such as interference tone, degree of tonality, and tonal fitness of comparison tone showed to be a key factor in how listeners performed in the task. [9] Vispoel's research journal described an adaptable test that is for tonal memory. There are three phases that were created in order to get the ...

  7. Peter Westergaard's tonal theory - Wikipedia

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    Peter Westergaard's tonal theory is the theory of tonal music developed by Peter Westergaard and outlined in Westergaard's 1975 book An Introduction to Tonal Theory (hereafter referred to as ITT).

  8. Tonal - Wikipedia

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    Tonality, a system of writing music involving the relationship of pitch to some centered key; Tonal system, a hexadecimal (base 16) system of notation, arithmetic, and metrology proposed by Nystrom in 1859 "Tonal", a song by the American band Bright from the album The Albatross Guest House

  9. Timbre - Wikipedia

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    Spectrogram of the first second of an E9 suspended chord played on a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Below is the E9 suspended chord audio: In music, timbre (/ ˈ t æ m b ər, ˈ t ɪ m-, ˈ t æ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.