So narrow has ourtonal range become, so stereotyped its form of expression, that nowadays there is not one familiar motive that cannot be fitted with some other familiar motive so that the two may be played simultaneously.
But the tonal system above sketched must first of all train the hearing to thirds of a tone, without giving up the semitones.
It is said, with much truth, composers do not write coloratura parts in these days, since audiences do not care to listen to singers who stand in the middle of the stage, merely to sing beautiful arias and tonal embroideries.
It is a fascinating study to make different qualities of tonal color in the voice.
In truth, all the benefit of tonal connection depends upon this portion of the soft palate; that is, upon its conscious employment.
So she didn't demur, and presently she was delivering an old chorale, accompanying herself, and singing with such tonal richness and exaltation of feeling that the tears came unbidden to the eyes of the veteran teacher.
What else is Tristan and Isolde but a tonal orgasm?
Consort a dramatic or even a lyric text with music and all manner of tonal devices may derive explanation, if not justification, from the words.
Bach raises it to the region of genius and sympathy, and closes the labors of a thousand years of Christian tonal effort by his Passion music of the Redeemer.
The boy who, far away in future thought, studied the art-forms of his great predecessors and contemporaries in the lowly chamber or by the light of the silent moon, has found his beloved, the Tonal Muse.
But while this is so, he initiated the modern period of tonal art, leaving, however, this Passion music as his noblest legacy, as if to warn men that no other solution of life exists.
A mere tonalaccord could assail her nostrils like a perfume set to music.
A critic who wrote in terms of elliptical rhythms and tonal arabesques tiptoed out for a smoke.
Any attempt to harmonise them according to our tonal system must end in failure.
Here the instruments become identical with one another, the sonority is increased and the tonal deviation is corrected to the most perfect harmony.
He is a living embodiment in color of various tonal characteristics of the landscape around him.
Working mainly after the loose, fresh wash drawings of Raphael and Parmigianino he developed a method of reducing their tonal constituents to two or three simple areas plus a partial outline, each of which was cut on a separate block.
His attempt to convey their scale, solidity, and tonal range, while retaining the woodcut’s breadth of execution, was perhaps carrying the chiaroscuro into complexities for which it was not suited.
Influenced by Claude Mellan, this engraver made use of swelling parallel lines to create tonal gradations.
In an attempt to imitate the full tonal scale of engraving, the woodcutters used heavier lines in the foreground to detach the main figures from the background, which was made up of more delicate lines.
They were, like his tonal exactitude that made holes in the wall, a distraction and an offense against interior decoration.
All this gives a tonal splendor that simply beggars description.
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Where I felt the hushed presence of dawn "like a pilgrim clad," Swank vibrated to the harmonies of pure pigment, the full brass of a tonal orchestra.
Yet it may well be asked whether the highest type of coloratura singing, pure tonal beauty, does not appeal to a deeper, more elemental set of emotions than are reached by dramatically expressive singing.
It is to be regretted that dramatic singers of this day pay so little attention to purely tonal expressiveness.
In this case the critic will note exactly the same sort of differences in tonal value as in the case of the violinist.
Vividly clear as it is to the critic, his understanding of tonal values is lodged solely in his cultivated ear.
While attentive listening renders the ear more keen and discriminating, no vocal student of average gifts need be told the meaning of tonal beauty.
Coloratura singing, to be absolutely perfect, demands this degree of tonal excellence.
Every experienced music lover has his own mental standard of tonal perfection.
One may attend operas and concerts for a whole season and listen to a score of famous singers, and count oneself fortunate to have heard even one artist who attains this standard of tonal excellence.
Singing on the breath is an effect of wondrous tonal beauty; it is simply this, pure beauty, pristine and naïve.
Just as in mediaeval times each hexachord commenced with ut, so now every octave of our tonalsystem commences with do.
Add one note to the lower end of this universal Greek scale, as it was called, and we see that the wholetonal system was included within two octaves.
Possibly Strauss's "Thus Spake Zarathustra" may be considered the apotheosis of this power of suggestion in tonal colour, and in it I believe we can see the tendency I allude to.
This work stuns by its glorious magnificence of tonal texture; the suggestion, in the opening measures, of the rising sun is a mighty example of the overwhelming power of tone colour.
Overwhelmed by the new-found powers of suggestion in tonal tint and the riot of hitherto undreamed of orchestral combinations, we are forgetting that permanence in music depends upon melodic speech.
At the beginning of the sixteenth century musical laws began to be elaborated without, however, in this evolution towards modern tonal art, departing entirely from all influence of the antique methods.
The consequence of this adoption of kindred processes is that the tonal pictures and the old masters join hands naturally and can stand side by side in the gallery of the collector.
An “impression”(19) among tonal pictures appears as foolish as a tonal picture among impressions and the sane conclusion is that the attempt to combine them should not be made.
If, however, the tonal and the coloresque art were in even interchange, the former would have much of its strength robbed, to the degree of the excessive color of its neighbors.
This, though a wholly practical reason for the growing popularity of tonal art is one of the powerful considerations for the trend from that sort which is liable to create discord.
The clear singing tones of the upper register are better rendered under this formula than by any other, but the feeling of solidity and the tonal depth of nature are qualities which it compromises.
That a just distinction may be had between tonal and coloresque and impressionist art, the purpose of each must be stated.
The horizontal accent of dark through the centre of the canvas, suggesting a grand piano in the dim recesses behind, fulfills a like obligation from the linear as well as tonal standpoint.
Full of tonal contrasts, this highly finished composition is grateful to the touch.
Tietjens make a gradual crescendo from the first note to the climax, but the tonal colours were also subtly graduated from a comparatively sombre quality to one of the utmost clearness and brilliance.
The fact of this small tonal compass will itself indicate that the melody of all natural peoples tends to very constant rhythms and intervals.
This renders available a wealth of new tonal possibilities, and adds an inexhaustible supply of new motifs for the expression of feelings and emotions.
Many organs now constructed have their tonal effects more than doubled through adoption of this principle.
The introduction of the balanced Swell pedal (Walcker, 1863) has greatly increased the tonal resources of the organ.
Michell and other artists, after lengthy tests, independently arrived at the conclusion that the best tonal results cannot by any possibility be obtained from these cheap forms of chest.
The Hope-Jones leathered Tibias have already effected a revolution in the tonalstructure of large organs.
The variety of the tonal combinations is practically endless.
We now give specifications of some of the most notable organs of the world, all of which have been built or rebuilt since the year 1888, and embody modern ideas in mechanism, wind pressures, and tonal resources.
The Unit organ in its entirety consists of a single instrument divided into five tonal families, each family being placed in its own independent Swell box.
The use of Swell boxes of this vastly increased efficiency permits the employment of larger scales and heavier pressures for the pipes than could otherwise be used, and enormously increases the tonalflexibility of the organ.
And this was apparent when he started in and wandered up and down the tonal till he managed to strike the tonic.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tonal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
