The music never sounds as though it is "in" a particular key, but dwells often on readily identifiable tonal areas.

He preferred to make use of a single tonal area in scenes of steady emotion, or of a single set of characters on stage.

We had to be very psychically in tune to improvise together in that tonal area.

It can also be highly chromatic without introducing any well-defined modulations which establish clear tonal areas.

The development section opens with an abrupt turn into a new tonal area.

After a colorful harmonic excursion, the third tonal area arrives in the traditional dominant key (F major).

The closing chorale is considered quite simple, although it moves through a number of tonal areas.

But even in the paintings where lines are there, they play a minor role, often as brushy accents or independent forms, complementing tonal areas rather than containing them.

He wandered into new tonal areas, using unexpected notes to construct new emotions.

In one scheme, the diagonal edges of several tonal areas suggest hilly or shoreline topographies.