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American artistic style of the nineteenth century, characterised bylandscapes with amisty atmosphere and dark, neutralhues .
Etymologies
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Examples
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To paint it, he adopted the new style of tonalism, with atmospheric, darker hues.
Up From the Basement 2011
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If you time it right, a leisurely stroll around your 'hood can be a crash course in western tonalism, from Monteverdi down through Moby.
Robert Rodi: Mad Cow by Moonlight: Mucca Pazza Enchants Evanston 2009
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Their style was characterized by a special visionarism, the use of a bright palette and the warm tonalism which later characterized the so-called “Roman School.”
Antonietta Rapha��l. 2009
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Fourth Race went on, and its languages evolved; back, in the seventh sub-race, to the tonalism, the chanted simplicity of the first sub-race; -- till you had something in character not intellectual, but spiritual: -- Chinese.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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Schönberg moved to the United States in 1934 where his music turned somewhat back towards tonalism, although structurally more complex.
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Schönberg moved to the United States in 1934 where his music turned somewhat back towards tonalism, although structurally more complex.
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I came to have small arguments with the sometimes nonsensical aesthetic positions of the composers (most particularly Schoenberg and Boulez -- "We've come to set music free from the tyranny of tonalism; however, we'll impose a new tyranny, so it isn't really free after all, but we'll say it is.")
Flos Carmeli 2009
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With its mix of dissonance and tonalism, outbursts and quietude, the music depicts the horrors of war and the craving for peace.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here Associated Press Writer Martin Steinberg 2008
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