tonal system
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- Characteristics and features
- Systematic organization
- Theoretical arrangement of pitches
- Contrast with modal and atonal systems
- Pre-modern concept
- Referential tonic
- Tonal theories
- Synonym for "key"
- Other perspectives
- Form
- Consonance and dissonance
- Tonal musics
- History and theory
- 18th century
- 19th century
- 20th century
- Theoretical underpinnings
- Outside common-practice period
- Computational methods to determine the key
- See also
- Footnotes
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
{{Image frame|content= \new PianoStaff > \bar "|." } \new Staff { \clef bass > } >> |width=300|align=right|caption=Perfect authentic cadence (IV–V–I chord progression, in which we see the chords F major, G major, and then C major, in four-part harmony) in C major."Tonal music is built around these tonic and dominant arrival points [cadences], and they form one of the fundamental building blocks of musical structure".}}
Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.