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Also known as music tonality, musical tonality

Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions, and directionality.

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Contents
  • 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.

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