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pantonality

pantonality noun: twelve-tone music, seen as an extension of tonality to all keys (rather than to no key).

Noun

pantonality (uncountable)

  1. Twelve-tone music, seen as an extension of tonality to all keys (rather than to no key).
  2. Non-functional tonality or pandiatonicism.

Origin of pantonality

From pan- + tonality.

Questions about pantonality

What does pantonality mean?
Pantonality means twelve-tone music, seen as an extension of tonality to all keys (rather than to no key).
What part of speech is pantonality?
Pantonality is a noun.

Words near pantonality in the dictionary

  1. pantomorphic
  2. panton
  3. Panton Hill
  4. pantonal
  5. pantonalism
  6. pantonality
  7. pantons
  8. pantophagic
  9. pantophagist
  10. pantophagists
  11. pantophagous

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