Tonality and Modality together

1. What is modality and tonality?
2. What's the difference between modal and tonal?
3. What is modality in music?
4. What is an example of tonality?

What is modality and tonality?

Tonality is using notes from particular scale, staying in key. Modality is picking relationship between two notes used at the same time.

What's the difference between modal and tonal?

The difference between modal and tonal are in the harmonic languages surrounding the tonal center. Tonality implies the system of common-practice harmony well-established by the eighteenth century that uses major and minor keys.

What is modality in music?

Modality is a type of musical scale, or a group of eight successive pitches, with no pitch skipped and the first and last tone repeated. Each scale degree is numbered and labeled in Roman numerals on the scale, beginning with 1 or the first note and ending with 8 or the last note.

What is an example of tonality?

Tonality is the quality of a tone, the combination of colors used in a painting, or how the tones of a musical composition are combined. An example of tonality is the pitch of a person's singing voice. An example of tonality is a painting with a cool color scheme. The scheme or interrelation of the tones in a painting.