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The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.

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  1. n. The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.
  2. n. any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
  3. The link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/principle">principle of key in link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/music">music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole. The predominance of the tonic as the link which connects all the tones of a piece, we may, with Fétis, term the principle of tonality. Helmholtz.
  4. The link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/principle">principle of key in link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/music">music; the character which acomposition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, orthrough the family relationship of all its tones and chords to thekeynote, or tonic, of the whole.The predominance of the tonic as the link which connects all thetones of a piece, we may, with Fétis, term the principle of tonality.Helmholtz.
  5. n:100 n any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music