1. 1調性(音樂上以某個主音為中心的組織方式);在繪畫、攝影中也指整體色調

    In music, tonality is the way a piece is organised around one central note — its key. When a song is 'in C major', C is home: the tune keeps pulling back to it, and the chords are built to make you feel that pull. That whole system, and the particular colour a given key gives a piece, is its tonality. Musicians also use the word for the bigger idea: music that works this way is 'tonal', and music written on purpose without a home note is 'atonal'. So when a critic 'the piece abandons tonality halfway through', they mean the sense of home disappears. Outside music the word gets borrowed for colour, especially by painters, photographers and designers — 'the warm tonality of the photograph' means the overall range and feel of its tones. That use is common in art writing and rare in speech. Careful with one thing: in ordinary English, 'tone' can also mean the feeling in someone's voice or writing, but 'tonality' is not usually used that way. For that you say 'tone'.

組成tone(音、調子)+ -ity(表示性質、狀態的名詞字尾)— the quality of having a tone-centre. English took it from French tonalité.

同家族的字

  • tonethe root; a single sound or quality of sound
  • tonalthe adjective — music built around a key
  • atonala- 'not' + tonal — written without a home key
  • intonationsame tone root; the rise and fall of the voice

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

tonalitynoun/təʊnˈæl.ɪ.tiː/

  • 1

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe system of seven tones built on a tonic key; the 24 major and minor scales.

  • 2

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA sound of specific pitch and quality; timbre.

  • 3

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe quality of all the tones in a composition heard in relation to the tonic.

  • 4

    The interrelation of the tones in a painting.

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