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[ tohn-l ] / ˈtoʊn l /
adjective Music.pertaining to or having tonality. Origin of tonal1770–80; <Medieval Latin tonālis. See tone, -al1 OTHER WORDS FROM tonalton·al·ly, adverbWords nearby tonaltomtit, tom-tom, -tomy, to my mind, ton, tonal, tonalist, tonality, to-name, Tonawanda, Tonbridge Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for tonalHarsh critics insist it's the film's tonal shifts that destroy it. Hey! Some People Liked Grown Ups 2: Critics Defend The Razzie Nominations|Amy Zimmerman|January 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST How could Cardiff lose, they asked, when she was piggybacking on the tonal pleasures of established classical music? A New Masterpiece, Built on an Old One|Blake Gopnik|September 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST Robert King: My answer would be yes, there were tonal issues. ‘The Good Wife’: Creators Robert and Michelle King on the Season Finale, Alicia and Kalinda, and More|Jace Lacob|April 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST Look for the Al Franken show to be the tonal opposite of change we can believe in. Al Franken is the Right's New Punching Bag|Benjamin Sarlin|January 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The human voice, on the other hand, is much less limited in its powers of tonal and emotional coloring. Chopin and Other Musical Essays|Henry T. Finck And this was apparent when he started in and wandered up and down the tonal till he managed to strike the tonic. Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing|Enrico Caruso and Luisa Tetrazzini I shall quote but one, that employed in the curious ceremony of “calling back the tonal,” referred to on a previous page. Nagualism|Daniel G. Brinton There are no evidences of a progressive development of instruments and a tonal sense among this people. A Popular History of the Art of Music|W. S. B. Mathews Another, with great variety of tonal beauty, gives me many ideas—many pictures of tone. Piano Mastery|Harriette Brower
British Dictionary definitions for tonal
adjectiveof or relating to tone of, relating to, or utilizing the diatonic system; having an established keyCompare atonal - (of an answer in a fugue) not having the same melodic intervals as the subject, so as to remain in the original key
- denoting a fugue as having such an answerCompare real 1 (def. 11)
Derived forms of tonaltonally, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |