utonality
noun1
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A family of pitches that can all be expressed as ratios with a specified fixed tone, such that all ratios have the same numerator; a subharmonic series.
- Fixed tonal systems find utonalities disturbing. There are four utonalities prominent in the chromatic gamut.1966, Jonas Mekas, Film Culture - Issues 40-42, page 6:
- A similar correlation is evident in the physical layout of the Kithara II, which consists of twelve banks of six strings, each bank tuned to a specific, although incomplete, otonality or utonality.1982, Percussive Notes - Volume 21, page 71:
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- Contrasting otonality and utonality allows Johnston to mark distinctions between a melody and its inversion.1995, 1/1: The Quarterly Journal of the Just Intonation Network:
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