Tonality - The overall color effect in terms of hue and value. Often one dominating hue is employed in various shades and values.
Triptych - A painting or carving consisting of three panels.
tone and tonality - A quality of a color, arising from its saturation (purity and impurity), intensity (brilliance and dimness), luminosity (brightness and dullness), and temperature (warm and cool); or to create such a quality in a color.
The 11-limit tonality diamond, part of the basis for Partch's microtonalism ...
A tawny gold tonality prevails in the colour scheme, with passages of pale ivory, yellow, blue-green, dark brown and bright red. The shining forms appear to be immersed in a crystalline atmosphere, whose essence is the light blue sky.
Ellington's instinctive genius for harmonic invention, using the outer extensions of basic triadic and dominant seventh chords, led him to use bitonality (two keys at once) or polytonality (several keys) at least a decade before anyone else.
The painting has a blonde, clear and bright tonality, and the bridge in the distance shimmers in the haze, a result of the heat and smoky factory chimneys clouding the atmosphere.
After the soft gelatin is washed away, the plate is then etched to varying depths in an acid bath, according to the tonality of the original image. Thus the highlights are protected from the acid, whereas the shadow area becomes deeply etched.
The basic plane is in general rectangular or square, thus it is composed of horizontals and verticals lines which delimit it and define it as an autonomous being which will serve as support to the painting communicating it its affective tonality.
In the last years of his life it assumes a feverish and moving tonality that one need not hesitate to describe as "romantic." At the same time it must be seen in the humanistic setting of his day.
Liquid glue is preferred as a thinner by painters wishing to retain the tonality of colours (which otherwise dry slightly lighter in key) and to prevent thick paint from flaking.
The ground is dark pinkish brown; although thinly applied it contributes substantially to the overall tonality, especially in areas of the sky and background mountains, where the overlying paint has been applied very thinly.
Mezzotint achieves tonality by roughening the plate with thousands of little dots made by a metal tool with small teeth. In printing the tiny pits in the plate hold the ink when the face of the plate is wiped clean.
(Tenebrism is a term describing predominantly dark tonality in a painting. It derives from the Italian 'tenebroso', meaning obscure, and is applied mainly to the 17th century followers of Caravaggio in Italy and elsewhere.) ...
Of the two variables of color, the apparent amount of light reflected and the apparent purity, value and tonality represent lightness; chroma, saturation, and intensity represent purity. Return to top ...
Bright
Intensity or saturation of a color. Purity of color. Paintings are considered "bright" if their tonality is bright.
Aquatint is created by acid biting into a metal plate and involves putting granular resin over the plate, creating the design, and then immersing in acid. Tonality is achieved by repeating the varnishing and immersing.
Music: pitch (melody and harmony), duration (rhythm, time and metre), dynamics and volume, tempo, tone colour, texture/timbre, instrumentation, tonality, articulation ...
 See also: Composition, Classic, Roman, Movement, Painting
  
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