tonalities

• “Peter Schat proposed the "Tone Clock," a triad-based system which expands on the tonal ideas of Rameau, thus creating 12 distinct "tonalities".”

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• “Gershwin was not a jazz musician; his music is not jazz, but his inherent sensitivity to African-American music allowed him to create music that was intelligently and rewardingly coloured by its textures and tonalities.”

  The Guardian: Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres at New York's Aeolian Hall

• “One, the 50 minutes of weird, alien "electronic tonalities" that constitute the music score.”

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• “Tesknota , Polish for nostalgia, echoes with "tonalities of sadness and longing.”

  The Wall Street Journal: New Ways Of Portraying Lives

• “Beckmesser, a pedantic city clerk in medieval Nuremberg, is modeled on Eduard Hanslick, a conservative music critic who attacked Wagner's progressive tonalities.”

  The Huffington Post: Elisabeth Braw: Glyndebourne's Meistersinger: A Triumph

• “The music hints at a far-off Moravian wedding band, with klezmerish clarinets and tonalities Janácek, a few decades on, might have enjoyed.”

  The Guardian: Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela; Benjamin Grosvenor, LSO; Promised End; Radamisto

• “Eight years ago, when his trio, the Bandwagon, played the Village Vanguard — where it will hold court for six nights this week beginning Tuesday — he reached first not for the piano but a MiniDisc player: A sampled conversation in Turkish was heard, its cadence and tonalities serving as a template for a song.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Piano 'Genius' Finds His Edge

• “These first-generation photographs provide exhibit visitors with a particular sense of the rich tonalities and the dramatic settings of the photographs.”

  The Huffington Post: Kate Kelly: Before Paparazzi -- Hollywood Glamour Photos of the Golden Age: At the Grolier Club, NYC

• “The critic James Huneker, writing in 1903, said that Debussy's tonalities "are vague, even violently unnatural.”

  The Wall Street Journal: From Honkytonk To High Art

• “With me, however, I don't know if it's as much a matter of landscape helping me find a voice — my father shaped my voice before I knew any better, loading my brain with iambic pentameter and certain tonalities.”

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