Tonality

[Sarah]

The principle of key in 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.

[Sarah]

When tone is applied to a sentence to emphasise sarcasm or wit.

[Sarah]

(noun)
(musical term)Refers to a system of pitches within a diatonic scale, based on whole and half-tone relationships to a given tonic, therefore determining the key signature.

[Dorothey Allen]

The character of a piece of music as determined by the key in which it is played or the relations between the notes of a scale or key.

[Cami]

a particular musical scale or key