单词 | tonalist |
释义 | tonalistn.adj. 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > tonalism > artist tonalist1903 1897 N.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?] 1903 N.Y. Times 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. 1972 W. 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. 1981 N.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. Music. A composer whose work emphasizes tonality; hence, a composer who favours (traditional) harmonies. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [noun] > composer by type of music fuguist1789 symphonist1789 melodist1826 threnodist1827 instrumentalist1838 melophonist1847 polyphonist1864 musical dramatist1866 operettist1867 tone poet1874 orchestrator1875 French Impressionist1876 monodist1888 romantic1892 neoclassicist1899 orchestralist1899 variationist1900 mensuralist1901 tone-painter1903 impressionist1908 pre-Romantic1918 phrase-maker1924 polytonalist1925 atonalist1929 dodecaphonist1953 serialist1954 twelve-toner1955 miniaturist1962 minimalist1969 tonalist1982 1982 Christian Sci. Monitor 18 Aug. 18/3 Even the ‘new-tonalists’ are trying merely to sound like someone else. 1990 Chicago 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. attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [adjective] > composer by type of music songwriting1783 serialist1936 tonalist1972 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [adjective] > tonalist tonalist1972 1972 W. 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. 1982 N.Y. Times 30 May (Long Island Weekly section) 16/2 An exhibition celebrating tonalist art in San Francisco. 1988 Music & Lett. 69 571 Colin Matthews..took up the ‘English’ tonalist tradition rejected by Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle and Goehr. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.adj.1903 |
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