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tonality
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Definition:1. the sound quality; timbre2. the interrelationship of tones in a work of art
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Uses:
“Gretchen, do you want your drink up there or do you want to come down for it?”
“Up here,” she called. Her voice was lower, huskier. She was conscious of new, subtler tonalities in it;
Irwin Shaw. Rich Man, Poor Man (1959)
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as though one’s life were a series of galleries in which all the portraits of any one period had a marked family likeness, the same (so to speak) tonality — this early Swann abounding in leisure, fragrant with the scent of the great chestnut-tree, of baskets of raspberries and of a sprig of tarragon.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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because (just as increased tension upon a cord or accelerated vibration of a nerve produces a different sound or colour) it gave another tonality to all that I saw, introduced me as an actor upon the stage of an unknown and infinitely more interesting universe;
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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The child’s tonalities were still admirably pure,
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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