Professor Lowinsky’s book is also a study of the emergence and growth of modern-eighteenth-century major and minor mode—“tonality,” of the devices that support the great suspension bridge forms of ...

Early in the 20th century, composers of the Second Viennese School believed that tonality and Romanticism in Western music had gone as far as it could go, and their answer was "atonality," music ...

Choral singer Alexander Blake, who is the founder of a group called Tonality that is concerned with issues of racism and social justice, poses for a portrait in Los Feliz on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 ...

Despite its characteristic minor tonality, this music encompasses a vast range of human emotion. How could it not? It has to cover everything from prayers for the dead to adoration of the deity.

Musical tonality conveys emotion and can regulate the listener's feelings. For example, a positive, calming voice can relieve high anxiety and agitated negative mood.