tonalismn.
/ˈtəʊnəlɪz(ə)m/ Art and Music.
A style or technique of composition characterized by regard for tone or tonality: see tonalist n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > tonalism
tonalism1890
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > [noun] > style by tonal organization > specific
enharmonic1603
chromaticism1879
atonality1922
polytonality1923
bitonality1927
diatonism1927
atonalism1928
quarter-tonality1930
diatonicism1931
pentatonism1931
tritonality1931
pandiatonicism1937
microtonality1946
pantonality1946
dodecaphonism1951
dodecaphony1952
serialism1955
pentatonicism1958
minimalism1981
tonalism1990
1890 Nation (N.Y.) 8 May 381/1 In landscape the whole gamut is struck, from sombre tonalism..to the latest experiments in brilliant light of the followers of Monet.
1956 E. P. Richardson Painting in Amer. xiii. 368 One group of painters..worked toward an even deeper, warmer tonalism and an even more elegiac mood.
1972 W. M. Corn Color of Mood ii. 4/1 As tonalism has been defined, it was a style of intimacy and expressiveness, interpreting very specific themes in limited color scales.
1990 N.Y. Times 12 Aug. ii. 23/1 The kind of modern tonalism favored by the composers who established an American musical sound earlier in the century.
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