Tonality: alternatives and connections

the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family…

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…

The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.

In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; thi…

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octav…

A florid, brilliant style of music, written for effect, to show the range and flexibility of a singer's voice, or the technical force…

The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relativ…

A poem set to music; a musical composition comprising choruses, solos, interludes, etc., arranged in a somewhat dramatic manner; origi…

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords.

A proposition which arises from interchanging the terms of another, as by putting the predicate for the subject, and the subject for t…

Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lowe…

Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.

To provide strong enough evidence to treat something as confirmed.

Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…

A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones.

a relation between people; (‘relationship’ is often used where ‘relation’ would serve, as in ‘the relationship between inflation and u…