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tonalist n. (and a.)|ˈtəʊnəlɪst|
[f. tonal a. + -ist.]
1. Art. A painter who concentrates on achieving a harmonious arrangement of colour, light, and tone; spec. applied to members of a group of American landscape painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
[1897N.Y. Times 16 Jan. (Suppl.) 5/1 If the impressionists must go, after having done more harm than good, because no end of lazy persons thought they might be impressionists, must what are called ‘tonists’ jump into their places?] 1903Ibid. 31 Jan. 2/4 The collection is one of colorists and tonalists without the aid of any of the more notable open-air landscape painters. 1972W. M. Corn Color of Mood ii. 8/1 The same criticisms which tonalists leveled at Hudson River School realism—too objective, overly scientific and analytical..—they flung at Impressionist painting. 1981N.Y. Times 13 Dec. (Long Island Weekly section) 18/4 The artists of the 19th and 20th centuries described as tonalists were Impressionists who..usually stressed the use of one tone..more than others.
2. Mus. A composer whose work emphasizes tonality; hence, a composer who favours (traditional) harmonies.
1982Christian Science Monitor 18 Aug. 18/3 Even the ‘new-tonalists’ are trying merely to sound like someone else. 1990Chicago Tribune 11 Mar. xiii. 24/3 He shunned Schoenberg, Berg, Bartok, Stravinsky and Hindemith in favor of old-fashioned tonalists like Walton, Prokofiev, Rozsa, [etc.].
3. attrib. or as adj.
1972W. M. Corn Color of Mood ii. 12/1 Twachtman..enjoyed very little patronage during his lifetime. This was true of most of the tonalist painters. 1982N.Y. Times 30 May (Long Island Weekly section) 16/2 An exhibition celebrating tonalist art in San Francisco. 1988Music & Lett. LXIX. 571 Colin Matthews..took up the ‘English’ tonalist tradition rejected by Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle and Goehr. |