tonalistn.adj.
/ˈtəʊnəlɪst/ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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n.adj.1903