tonality (tonal it i)

[F. tonal ité; as to nal+-ity.] 1. În music: (a) The character or quality of tone. This exquisite quality of tonality came to the ear with astonishing sweetne and the winning charm of artle ne come of the truest vocal art. ( b ) Same as key1 , 7 ( a ). The Churchman, LIV. 469. The Greeks, among whom diatonic scale first modern music. were not without a certain esthetic feeling for tonality, but... they had not developed it so decisively as in Helmholtz, Sensations of Tone (trans.), p. 371. 2. In painting, the scheme of color of a picture; system of tones. The flesh-painting is, however, timid, and wanting in brilliancy, while the general tonality lacks force and accent. The Academy , May 25, 1889, p. 365. tonally (to'nal-i), adv . In music , in a tonal manner; with careful observance of tonality. And by this I do not mean merely bits that are rhythmically and tonally coherent. E. Gurney, Nineteenth Century, XIII. 443. to-name (tö'nām), n. [Also erroneously tue name ; Sc. also tee - name ; to name , tonome (=D. toenaam =MLG. to name = MHG.zuoname , G. zuname ; cf. Sw. tillnamn = Dan. tilnavn ); name1 .] A name added to another name; a surname; specifically, a name in addition to the Christian name and surname of a person, to distinguish him from others of the same name, and usually indicating descent, place of residence, or some personal quality or attribute. Such to-names are often employed where the same families continually intermarry, and where consequently the same name is common to many individuals. They prevail especially among the fisher population of the east coast of Scotland, where in some places they are called tee - names . Thai theifs that steills and tursis hame, Ilk ane of thame hes ane to - name ; Will of the Lawis; Hab of the Schawis. Sir R. Maitland of Lethington, Complaint against the [Thieves of Liddesdale. "They call my kinsman Ludovic with the Scar," said Quentin. "Our family names are so common in a Scottish house that where there is no land in the case we always give a to - name . " Scott , Quentin Durward, iii. The po e ion of a surname, a to - name , a name in addition to the Christian name, had begun in the twelfth century to be looked on as a needful badge of noble birth. E. A. Freeman , Norman Conquest, V. 378. tonarion (tō-nā'ri-on), п . [ tone1 .] A kind of pitch-pipe sometimes used for the guidance of orators in ancient times.