How to Use tonality in a Sentence

tonality

noun

• Her tonality was the perfect fit to bring the dark and the light into the thread.
  — Matthew Allan, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2023
• That’s one way in which the stand-up informed the tonality of some of the music.
  — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2022
• The tonality in many prints veers between stark white and pitch-black.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 16 June 2021
• Practice one on one with a friend to work on your tonality.
  — Wasim Hajjiri, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Then the rhythm of the characters and tonality, like, should every scene have a joke?
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• But Calbi is also known for his ability to bring out the tonality of the bass.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2021
• Following on from this are nearly 30 pages of notes, graphs and analysis of the rhythm and tonality of the birds.
  — Daniel A. Gross, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
• Following on from this are nearly 30 pages of notes, graphs and analysis of the rhythm and tonality of the birds.
  — Daniel A. Gross, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2017
• Soon enough, all of the wonderful tonality and rhythm of an opponent's offense is stripped away.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Layered over all this is an original aria with gospel tonality sung by Liz Gré.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2019
• Each contains a detail of a head of hair — waves, wisps — and each is printed in a different tonality of warm brown or velvety black.
  — Leah Ollman, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• The lamps have now disappeared, giving a darker tonality to the painting.
  — Scott Reyburn, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• Making matters more unsettled, the tonalities of the performers are all over the map.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• The First Quartet precedes Schoenberg’s break from tonality; the Third is from his twelve-tone period.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Others had dreamed up the piano, diatonic tonality, and the 12-bar blues riff.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 28 June 2018
• Gone is any sense of key or tonality, and the forms are intuitive, unrelated to symphonies, sonatas or dances.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 May 2018
• The tonality is much paler—no business tones, no dark blues, no industry colors.
  — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 14 Oct. 2019
• Composers have been shifting from atonality to tonality and back for over a hundred years.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• Composers have been shifting from atonality to tonality and back for over a hundred years.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• La Monte Young, whose String Trio of 1958 is widely held to be the starting point of minimalism, steered clear of tonality and maintained an avant-garde posture.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• Design should fit the tonality of a brand but should remain consistent throughout.
  — Goran Paun, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• But the 6 Pro stood out this year because the resolution is higher and the overall tonality is just slightly better.
  — Jakob Schiller, Outside Online, 27 May 2022
• Most of these chords are major or minor triads with extra notes attached, giving the feeling of a smudged or blurred tonality.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2022
• And a piece by composer Chen Yi brought traditional Chinese harmonies and tonalities to the mix.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2019
• The tonality is gray, or grisaille, because this is the underpainting, in the old-master technique, that Elizabeth learned at art school.
  — Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2018
• Understanding how the subject faces change, and adapts to it, determines the element and the decanter’s tonality.
  — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 20 Feb. 2024
• This helps add some tonality back into the hair, also condition and seal the cuticle layer.
  — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 8 Apr. 2021
• The days when his embrace of bright tonality and luscious symphonic textures chafed against the aesthetics of a modernist mainstream are gone, along with the very notion of a mainstream.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017
• The Scottish lo-fi band’s tunes spoke to him, and his interpretation of the 1991 classic plays with its tonality, with Gibbard making his re-work a bit more hushed than the original.
  — Ilana Kaplan, Billboard, 27 July 2017
• There was a span of time, in the mid-to-late 2000s, when phone rings would influence the digital tonality of beats for rappers like Soulja Boy and J-Kwon, whose songs would then become ringtones themselves.
  — Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 24 May 2018

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024