Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

otonality

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: otonal-i-ty
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A family of pitches that can all be expressed as ratios with a specified fixed tone, such that all ratios have the same denominator.

Example Sentences

"Multiples up from otonalities, whereas divisors change the harmonic center and introduce new tonal sense (utonality)."
"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."
"So an otonality based on the 1-limit would have a 1-Identity (its first pitch), a 3-Identity (its second pitch), a 5-Identity (its third pitch), and so on."

Inflected Forms

otonalities (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

otonal

Questions

What does otonality mean?: A family of pitches that can all be expressed as ratios with a specified fixed tone, such that all ratios have the same denominator.

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