If you were asked to imagine a manager, you might well conjure up someone comically boring, desk-bound and monotonal.
如果有人让你想象一位经理，你很可能会想到一个乏味得可笑、整天坐在办公桌前、单调沉闷的人。
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Monotonality
Monotonality is a theoretical concept, principally deriving from the theoretical writings of Arnold Schoenberg and Heinrich Schenker, that in any piece of tonal music only one tonic is ever present, modulations being only regions or prolongations within, or extensions of the basic tonality.