tonal
[Eng.]
Term referring to
music
that is based upon
major
and
minor
tonalities
rather than on
modal
,
twelve-tone
, or other musical systems.
Tonal and Real:
In a
fugue
, if the
answer
has exactly the same
intervals
as the
subject
, the only difference being that it is
transposed
, the answer is said to be
real
. If the answer varies from the subject it is said to be
tonal
.
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