tonal
IPA: tˈoʊnʌɫ
noun
- (in Mesoamerican mythology) An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.
adjective
- Of or relating to tones or tonality.
- Of or relating to the general character, mood, or trend of something.
- (music) Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.
- (linguistics) Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).
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Examples of "tonal" in Sentences
- All the tonalities are distinct.
- Sometimes the tonality is everything.
- None of the languages mentioned in it are tonal.
- Change the scale, and you change the tonal space.
- My music fits the tonal personality of the player.
- A slight majority of the languages in the world are tonal.
- In music, abstraction refers to the abandonment of tonality.
- At the same time, these progressions signal the end of tonality.
- In Tlapanec stress is determined by the tonal contour of the words.
- However, the benefits of consonance are not the only consideration in tonality.
- Rather, they constitute an inexplicable wave of energy which the Toltecs called the tonal and the nagual.
- When you hear someone use the word tonal to describe an outfit’s color scheme, they are referring to looks like this one.
- Project of a new system of arithmetic, weight, measure, and coins, proposed to be called the tonal system, with sixteen to the base.
- One of the cleanest and most interesting re-appropriations I've seen recently with the notion of tonal achieving increasingly good results across the board.
- When you consider that between Spanish, English and Arabic, well over half of the planet doesn't speak a tonal language, that puts Chinese at a serious competative disadvantage.
- Tonality and atonality (as syntaxes) may be anathema to one another, but the relationship between consonance and dissonance in tonal music is a defining characteristic of tonality.
- But despite these several narrators and their widely differing stories, a kind of tonal monotony lies across the novel, which is devoid of the charming humor that leavened "The History of Love."
- I would probably "ground" the audience in tonal conventional music sounds during the real-world part of Zann and move them into atonal "out-there" sounds when that window opens (if I am recalling the story correctly).
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