Look up tonal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tonal may refer to: Tonal (mythology), a concept in the belief systems and traditions of Mesoamerican...

Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s. The movement was eventually eclipsed by Impressionism and European modernism. The French Barbizon...

languages. The distinctive tonal patterns of such a language are sometimes called tonemes, by analogy with phoneme. Tonal languages are common in East...

Tonal is a concept within the study of Mesoamerican religion, cosmology, folklore, and anthropology. It is a belief found in many indigenous Mesoamerican...

Westergaard's tonal theory is the theory of tonal music developed by Peter Westergaard and outlined in Westergaard's 1975 book An Introduction to Tonal Theory...

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about...

Tonal system can refer to Arab tone system, the modern Arabic system of musical tuning Chromatic scale or twelve-tone scale, a set of twelve pitches used...

role in establishing tonality. Harmony in jazz similarly includes certain tonal characteristics of the European common practice period (colloquially known...

The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization is a 1953 jazz music theory book written by George Russell. The book is the founding text of the Lydian...

In music, tonal memory or "aural recall" is the ability to remember a specific tone after it has been heard. Tonal memory assists with staying in tune...

often functions as the tonal center or final resolution tone of tonal music, and is commonly the goal of the final cadence in tonal harmony. In very much...

Schenkerian analysis is a method of analyzing tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935). The goal is to demonstrate the organic...

Australian tonalism was an art movement that emerged in Melbourne during the 1910s. Known at the time as tonal realism or Meldrumism, the movement was...

advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. He and Fred Archer developed a system of image-making...

Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California, formed in 1993. After a few early shifts, the band initially stabilized in 1996 with the...

its performances, direction, writing, production values, originality, and tonal balance of horror and comedy. For its first season, it received 19 nominations...

California Tonalism was art movement that existed in California from circa 1890 to 1920. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette...

if the intervals of the subject are altered in any way, the answer is a tonal answer. When the subject begins with a prominent dominant note, or when...

The tonal system is a base 16 system of notation (predating the widespread use of hexadecimal in computing), arithmetic, and metrology proposed in 1859...

Norse, also show no tonal opposition. It is, however, not clear whether these languages lost the tonal accent or whether the tonal accent was not yet there...

Post-tonal music theory is the set of theories put forward to describe music written outside of, or 'after', the tonal system of the common practice period...

website's consensus reads: "Flirting with complex themes, The Drama walks a tonal tightrope with impressive poise thanks to career-highlight performances...

tone melody carries more of the functional load of communication while non-tonal phonology carries proportionally less. The genesis of a whistled language...

Russo added that the character's introduction had to fit "that specific tonal stylistic world" of the MCU, as well as the tone established by the directors...

Dynamic range (abbreviated DR, DNR, or DYR) is the ratio between the largest and smallest measurable values of a specific quantity. It is often used in...

into their tonal animal counterpart. Nagualism is tied to the belief one can access power and spiritual insight by connecting with the tonal animal within...

from the ♭VII chord suggests that the progression originated before the tonal system in the modal approach of the time of Palestrina, where the tonic...

focused on the way studios, eager to replicate its performance, released tonally dark, gritty, and realistic films, or reboots of existing franchises, many...

temporary residents). The national language of the country is Vietnamese, a tonal Vietic language in the Austroasiatic language family, which is spoken by...

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From those transcriptions, "tonal transcription" (used for tonal orthography) and "non-tonal transcription" (used for non-tonal orthography), which also...

Triceratops for Richards to ride, a scene cut from the script due to pacing and tonal issues. The Triceratops vocals were primarily constructed from the sound...

Tonnetz (German for 'tone net') is a conceptual lattice diagram representing tonal space first described by Leonhard Euler in 1739. Various visual representations...

the matched grip, tuning the drums lower, and using muffling devices on tonal rings. In his opinion, his finest recorded performance was on the Beatles'...

from which scales could be constructed." However, "from the standpoint of tonal music [the chromatic scale] is not an independent scale, but derives from...

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head" and creating a playlist for all the songs that would fit the film tonally. He added that he "would listen to the playlist on my speakers around the...

Tonal Impressionism was an artistic style of "mood" paintings with simplified compositions, done in a limited range of colors, as with Tonalist works...

years during which the tonal system was regarded as the only basis for composition. It began when composers' use of the tonal system had clearly superseded...

In the theory of photography, tone reproduction is the mapping of scene luminance and color to print reflectance or display luminance, with the aim of...

switch to filming the special after doing scenes for Vol. 3, given the tonal difference between the two with Vol. 3 being more "emotional", feeling it...

ꜜ⟩ are defined in the Handbook as "upstep" and "downstep", concepts from tonal languages. However, the upstep symbol can also be used for pitch reset,...

harmonic function or tonal function) denotes the relationship of a chord or scale degree to a tonal centre. Two main theories of tonal functions exist today:...

performances of Hemsworth, Bale and Portman, but criticized its visual effects and tonal inconsistencies. The film grossed $760.9 million worldwide, making it the...

music; also becoming a "jazz freak". Although her music is more consistently tonal and has more crossover appeal, she is considered indebted to avant-garde...

constituent interval for the fundamental chords of tonal harmony. The fundamental chords of tonal music—major and minor triads and also seventh chords—all...

Metastaseis (1955) is an elaboration of the tone cluster. "Unlike most tonal and non-tonal linear dissonances, tone clusters are essentially static. The individual...

less positive by the end of the season, with critics describing it as tonally uneven and a step down from the previous two seasons. On Rotten Tomatoes...

"reductional format" to represent the perception of pitch-class relations in tonal contexts. These two-dimensional models resemble bar graphs, using height...

version of the A129, alternatively called the Joint European Helicopter Tonal or Light Attack Helicopter (LAH). By 1988, feasibility studies for four...

The generative theory of tonal music (GTTM) is a system of music analysis developed by music theorist Fred Lerdahl and linguist Ray Jackendoff. First...

his directing style, "What's riveting is that he can achieve a complete tonal change in performance with the least amount of direction ... Everybody behaves...

these films as well as more contemporary films such as Gladiator (2001) for tonal inspiration to lead the visual design of Kratos, other characters, and the...

American Prometheus, and distributed by Universal Pictures. Due to the tonal and genre contrast between the two films, many social media users created...

seventh chords may also have dominant function. In very much conventionally tonal music, harmonic analysis will reveal a broad prevalence of the primary (often...

listed above, two new tonal values, "˨˩" (Buáng-ĭng-ké̤ṳ, 半陰去) and ˧˥ (Buáng-iòng-ké̤ṳ, 半陽去) occur in connected speech (see Tonal sandhi below). Little...

lukewarm critical response from critics, who felt that it suffered from "tonal inconsistency and a lack of truly insightful retrospection." Mirren was...

footage's use of red also led to discussions of how The Batman would differ tonally from prior adaptations. On March 4, Reeves released an image of the film's...

Earth, a departure from the previous Thor films. He expanded by saying, "Tonally and geographically there are a lot of different planets outside of the...

to be washed", "needs washing", or "needs a wash." The dialect has some tonal similarities to other nearby regional dialects of Erie and Baltimore but...

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linguists because of the tonal distinctions made between different words, for example (Ripuarian) zɛɪ (tonal accent 1) "sieve" vs. zɛɪ (tonal accent 2) "she"....

advancing the franchise mythos, though some were conflicted over the pacing and tonal shifts of the story, and the film drew occasional disapproval from reviewers...

upward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language. It is best known in the tonal languages of Sub-Saharan Africa. Upstep is a much rarer...

Kevin, in our decision to cast them so far, you sort of get a sense of how tonally we're looking at the movie, and what you realize is that those guys are...

subsequent segments are exact transpositions of the first segment, while a tonal sequence is a sequence where the subsequent segments are diatonic transpositions...

which he felt was integral to the story. He also said that the film would tonally be less operatic than previous X-Men films, which he hoped would make it...

John B" (1966). Many of Wilson's compositions are marked by destabilized tonal centers. He frequently used key changes within verses and choruses, including...

scenes, and creating an animatic to show what they intended to do both tonally and textually. Their efforts paid off and led to their hiring; Anthony...

Robert Erickson found encompassed much contemporary music: Range between tonal and noiselike character Spectral envelope Time envelope in terms of rise...

Like most other Niger–Congo languages, the Tumbuka language is a tonal language with two basic surface tones: high (H) and low (L). Tumbuka grammatical...

The Danish language has a number of regional and local dialect varieties. These can be divided into the traditional dialects, which differ from modern...

graphical representation of the tonal distribution in a digital image. It plots the number of pixels for each tonal value. By looking at the histogram...

languages like English. Pitch-accent languages also contrast with fully tonal languages like Vietnamese, Central Thai and Standard Chinese, in which practically...

through hallucinogenic drugs. The album made liberal use of compression and tonal equalisation. Emerick said that the Beatles encouraged the studio staff...

theory is often concerned with abstract musical aspects such as tuning and tonal systems, scales, consonance and dissonance, and rhythmic relationships....

granting him "casting approval and other creative controls". It has to tonally and stylistically be as fresh and original [as the first film]. That's...

Miller and Zack Stentz were hired to rewrite the script. Miller compared it tonally to Singer's work on the first two X-Men films. The pair centered the film...

Californication and By the Way, Frusciante derived the technique of creating tonal texture through chord patterns from post-punk guitarist Vini Reilly of the...

Fincher said that Tracy was important because she provides the film's only tonally positive elements and he thought Paltrow's previous performances demonstrated...

praised for, manifested in unique features such as a cyclical formal and tonal design, chamber music textures, and a rare depth of emotional expression...

Italian papermaker C.M. Fabriano Also called a chiaroscuro watermark, a tonal, shaded, or shade-craft watermark, or a shadowmark Samson, Linda (1993)...

publications. Chao said that tonal spelling could possibly aid students of Chinese learning to articulate tones. However, later study of tonal accuracy in students...

horizontal dimensions of musical space.[page needed] The view that modern tonal harmony in Western music began in about 1600 is commonplace in music theory...

its performances and action sequences but criticism for its script and tonal inconsistencies. The film was a box-office bomb, grossing $206.1 million...

(1993). In 2002, Lasarenko founded his own music and sound design company, Tonal Sound. His television work included creating remixes of his original theme...

In Western tonal music, a perfect fifth is the musical interval between two notes separated by seven semitones, usually three whole tones and a semitone;...

entertaining superhero smash-up is escapism of a sophisticated order, boasting a tonal assurance and rich reserves of humor that offset the potentially lumbering...

the fifth season as the absolute peak. Critics lauded the series for its tonal versatility, standalone episodes, and bold creative risks—particularly highlighting...

A melodic line that is the reverse of a previously or simultaneously stated line is said to be its retrograde or cancrizans (/ˈkæŋkrɪˌzænz/ "walking backward"...

the relative major and relative minor of one another. Tonal music often modulates to a new tonal center whose key signature differs from the original by...

dialects of Southern Danish realize stød in a way that is more similar to the tonal word accents of Norwegian and Swedish. In much of Zealand it is regularly...

album's title track "afforded McCartney's bass with richer textures and tonal clarity". Some of the mixing employed automatic double tracking (ADT), a...

Cantonese Bopomofo, or Cantonese Phonetic Symbols (traditional Chinese: 粵語注音符號; simplified Chinese: 粤语注音符号; Jyutping: jyut6 jyu5 zyu3 jam1 fu4 hou6; Cantonese...

farce it aspires to become. But the screenplay remains too scattered, the tonal shifts too abrupt and the humour too inconsistent for the film to fully...

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completed pipe. Voicing of a pipe organ is the art of achieving the required tonal quality from each pipe, as distinct from tuning (setting its pitch or frequency)...

contextually being referred to in the etymological origins of the word is its tonal—rather than semantic—qualities. Sound and oral transmission were highly...

antagonists of the prior Ant-Man films as a "force of nature", one that adds "tonal diversity, real conflict and real friction". Given his work with time, Kang...

west. The dialect can be split further to the western, non-tonal dialects and eastern, tonal dialects. The dialect belongs to the Upper Carniolan dialect...

1996, said the film would follow up Hulk, but stressed it would be more tonally similar to the TV show and Bruce Jones' run on the comic. He compared his...

widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Hausa is tonal, using relative pitch both to distinguish words, and mark grammatical categories...

Slovene grammar in general, see Slovene grammar. This article follows the tonal orthography. For the conversion into pitch orthography, see Slovene national...

beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial music, electronic...

drive, Johnson is no match for [Tracee Ellis] Ross's carefully calibrated tonal swings between imperiousness, self-awareness, isolation and down-to-earth...

Easley Rutland Blackwood Jr. (April 21, 1933 – January 22, 2023) was an American professor of music, concert pianist, composer (sometimes using unusual...

Ü (minuscule: ü) is a Latin script character composed of the character U and the two dots diacritical mark. The meaning carried by the two dots varies...

analysis, such as Fred Lerdahl's and Ray Jackendoff's generative theory of tonal music. Chomsky is among the most cited authors living or dead. He was cited...

tones. Beginning in the 17th century, they were the two dominant modes of tonal music. The resulting harmonies are quite different from the major scale...

Luganda, the language spoken by the Baganda people from Central Uganda, is a tonal language of the Bantu family. It is traditionally described as having three...

proto-Hmong–Mien, proto-Tai and early Vietnamese all display a three-way tonal contrast in syllables lacking stop endings. In traditional analyses, syllables...

transcription delimiters. Tone sandhi is a phonological change that occurs in tonal languages. It involves changes to the tones assigned to individual words...

Invisible Man sequence, and it's really, really cool. It started to feel tonally disconnected from the movie we were making and story-wise, and it also...

like tonal problems on any one spectrum, their amplitude varies considerably. Other problems are self-resonant, such as whistles from antennas. Tonal noises...

A level, also "tonality level", Gerhard Kubik's "tonal step," "tonal block," and John Blacking's "root progression," is an important melodic and harmonic...

1500–500 BCE. Not just the actual words, but even the long-lost musical (tonal) accent (as in old Greek or in Japanese) has been preserved up to the present...

scale (see table below). This implies a functional scale, as is the case in tonal music. This example gives the names of the functions of the scale degrees...

southern China, and northeastern India. All languages in the family are tonal, including Thai and Lao, the national languages of Thailand and Laos, respectively...

high — but just the ability to have fun"; the film experiences numerous tonal shifts, where it goes from orchestral and emotional, to wacky and weird...

Tonal Patterns ( 平仄 ) is a work for symphony orchestra, composed by He Xuntian in 1985. He Xuntian adopted RD Composition (Renyilv Duiyingfa Composition)...

way of embodying dissonance and avant-garde techniques within a larger tonal framework" makes him "one of the great composers of any century". Similarly...

keyboard layout. Because Vietnamese is a tonal language this letter may optionally have any one of the five tonal symbols above or below it. Ừ ừ Ứ ứ Ử ử...

of English stress that speakers methodically project onto the Cantonese tonal register when English loanwords are incorporated into Hong Kong Cantonese...

specifying the keynote (as C major/minor). This is a very unusual form in tonal music, although examples became more common in the nineteenth century. There...

elements". However, he was mixed on the film's dark tone, regarding it as a tonal deviation from his previous films but also allowing it to be "giant mood...

component. An essential factor in performance is that each maqam describes the "tonal-spatial factor" or set of musical notes and the relationships between them...

the tone of a Black Mirror episode. Following this, episodes became more tonally diverse. Brooker would send a brief treatment to Netflix and receive feedback...

was praised for Norton's performance but criticized for its conflicting tonal shifts, while Stone was panned because of a clumsy plot with excessive twists...

significant features of the European organ schools of the Baroque era. The tonal design is based on the German Baroque style, centered in the music of J...

In music, the subdominant is the fourth tonal degree () of the diatonic scale. It is so called because it is the same distance below the tonic as the...

century due to the increased interest in a more expressive aesthetic. The tonal characteristics of reed pipes are determined by several factors, the most...

Like most other Niger–Congo languages, Sesotho is a tonal language, spoken with two basic tones, high (H) and low (L). The Sesotho grammatical tone system...

a way to at least entertain you and allow you to experience its unusual tonal palette. If not, then you may find yourself recoiling in horror like Caliban...

altered scale degrees". He adds that, such is the ambiguity throughout, "its tonal quality forms the perfect conspirator with the text's and the rhythm's hesitations...

ISBN 978-90-272-4787-2. OCLC 981047580. "Limburgish Language: History, Characteristics & Tonal Features". Lowland Languages. Archived from the original on November 10...

Pearson, Ben (24 September 2025). "Slow Horses Showrunner On Season 5's Tonal Shift And Making The Most Of Its Most Annoying Character [Exclusive Interview]"...

derived from or borrowed from Pali, Sanskrit, Mon and Old Khmer. It is a tonal and analytic language. Thai has a complex orthography and system of relational...

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progression and mimicking the style of Peter. — Guillermo del Toro, on tonal consistency with Jackson's trilogy Del Toro and Jackson had a positive working...

account the concepts of discrimination and inference learning in terms of tonal, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns. "Audiation" is a term Gordon coined in...

film as writer-director, Park described herself as seeking a thematic and tonal contrast with The Fallout, wanting to "put something out into the world...

In Western tonal music, a key represents the most common pitches and the center of tonal stability in a song or other composition. A key has two components:...

reconfigure is modal and abstract rather than tonal, and so the listener is freed from expectations set up by Western tonal harmonic conventions. The artworks in...

dissonant tone like a perfect fourth or a major second. The resulting sound is tonally ambiguous. The practice is widespread in popular music. The term derives...

prosodic phonology, and feature theory. Her frequently cited dissertation The Tonal Phonology of Chinese was published in the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics...

Tangsa alphabet includes a few additional separate letters for distinctive tonal vowels: Unlike Brahmic-derived abugidas most often used for languages in...

even an indirect object, combined with the verb root itself. Tonga is a tonal language, with high and low-toned syllables. The placement of the tones...

reviews, with critics praising for its performances, but criticism for tonal inconsistencies, and underperformed at the box office. However, The Girl...

Musical instrument classification is the practice of grouping musical instruments according to shared characteristics. It is a central concern of organology...

Australian dingoes bark mainly in swooshing noises or in a mixture of atonal and tonal sounds. In addition, barking is almost exclusively used for giving warnings...

Cecrops' in the 2nd Delphic Hymn: Tonal assimilation or tone sandhi between neighbouring tones is commonly found in tonal languages. Devine and Stephens...

emotional and existential plight under forces of authority. Drawing on tonal and rhythmic idioms from folk and dance music, he linked psychological and...

Typical tonal structure of classical seven-part rondo, late 18th and early 19th centuries   A B A C A B' A Major key I V I VI, IV or parallel minor I...

slapping technique on the electric bass guitar, which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass, although he himself refers to the technique as "thumpin'...

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that harmonic development in bebop sprang from blues and African-related tonal sensibilities rather than 20th-century Western classical music. "Auditory...

the most conservative varieties with regard to the final consonants and tonal categories of Middle Chinese, but have lost several distinctions in the...

containing only Vietnamese and Mường. Many of the Vietic languages have tonal or phonational systems intermediate between that of Viet–Muong and other...

erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992). He also worked with Neumeier on the tonally-similar science-fiction film Starship Troopers (1997). In 2020, the Guardian's...

little Ant-Man corner of the universe. Because it's a whole different vibe tonally". Quantum physicist Spyridon Michalakis from the Institute for Quantum...

studio album by London band Real Lies, released on 16 April 2025 through Tonal Records. The album features guest vocals from actress Jessica Barden on...

modulating among them to accompany the chords instead of relying on one tonal center used across the piece. Though exerting influence to the present,...

world as a series of tones ranging from black to white. Imagine all of the tonal values that can appear in a print, represented as a continuous gradation...

more figuratively, the term can include other musical elements such as tonal color. It is the foreground to the background accompaniment. A line or part...

it is based on seventh chords, with its tonality moving between several tonal centers. A slower middle movement with song-like melodies follows, before...

distinctive aspects of Russian folk music: Tonal mutability A tune seems to shift naturally from one tonal center to another, often ending up in a different...

[vague][citation needed] Fusion Perception of unity or tonal fusion between different tones and / or their partials. Tonal fusion occurs when a listener perceives two...

website's critics consensus reads, "Director François Ozon deftly walks a tonal tightrope with When Fall is Coming, a darkly funny thriller given genuine...

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typically occurs during segues between songs before the band modulates to a new tonal center. Some of the Dead's more extended jam vehicles, such as "The Other...

in Cremona, Italy. These instruments are known for their craftsmanship, tonal quality, and lasting legacy, and are considered some of the finest ever...

cast, though opinions were divided regarding its early pacing and rapid tonal shifts. Writing for Decider, Joel Keller gave the series a "Stream It" recommendation...

Northeast India. They propose that the distinctiveness of Kra-Dai (it is tonal and monosyllabic) was the result of linguistic restructuring due to contact...

Boutz, Jennifer Hill (2016). "A prosodic perspective on the assignment of tonal melodies to Arabic loanwords in Bambara". Mandenkan. 56: 29‑76. doi:10.4000/mandenkan...

1500–500 BCE. Not just the actual words, but even the long-lost musical (tonal) accent (as in old Greek or in Japanese) has been preserved up to the present...

and speech-language pathology, particularly in relation to the study of tonal languages and certain types of vocal disorders, although it has little practical...

System of Arithmetic, Weight, Measure and Coins, Proposed to be Called the Tonal System, with Sixteen to the Base. In 1859, Nystrom proposed a hexadecimal...

mystery that grows more addictive as it unfolds, Down Cemetery Road is tonally imbalanced but has a steadfast center of gravity in Emma Thompson's flinty...

Kabletown, a fictionalization of the acquisition of NBC Universal by Comcast. Tonally, 30 Rock uses surreal humor to parody the complex corporate structure of...

are only differentiated by the pitch contour. However, Japanese is not a tonal language. Literacy was introduced to Japan in the form of the Chinese writing...

aspiration. In Punjabi, tone is induced by the loss of [h] in tonal consonants. Tonal consonants are any voiced aspirates /ʱ/ and the voiced glottal...

Therabody. Some other companies Sharapova has invested in include UFC, Tonal, Public.com, Moonpay, Clio Snacks. In April 2022, Sharapova also became...

B (Bottom). These tonal symbols are considered phonological in that they represent discrete categories and surface since each tonal symbol corresponds...

"The E-flat clarinet. history, intonation, sound, equipment, geometry, tonal range, repertoire list, tips and more. Part 1", MG Verlag. Manuel Gangl...

Archived from the original on May 26, 2024. Retrieved October 29, 2011. The tonal ink-wash drawings he did for Creepy and Eerie magazines afforded him unique...

called Wicked "visually unappealing", commenting that "it can't handle the tonal shifts. Authoritarianism and broad comedy make strange and uneasy bedfellows...

Polygon also found the Netflix adaptation to effectively capture the wild tonal shifts and the characters that has made the franchise adored for the last...

the reality of Oppenheimer's perception". He wanted to execute a quick tonal shift after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, desiring to go...

fifths, parallel keys are also considered as closely related keys as the tonal center is the same, and this makes this key have an affinity with the original...

you're wrong!" Hellboy is as personal to me as Pan's Labyrinth. They're tonally different, and yes, of course you can like one more than the other—the...

character, depth of emotion, level of originality, and ingenuity of motivic and tonal manipulation". Between 1798 and 1800, Beethoven composed his first six string...

history helped him to finish the recording. Wright said that the film's tonal changes in line with representing the different book parts, and for its...

19th century banjos used German silver rims over wood for tonal quality and appearance...

resist and make lines, aquatint uses powdered rosin (resin) to create a tonal effect. The rosin is acid resistant and typically adhered to the plate by...

some promising ingenuity from its young directorial duo, but its lack of tonal cohesion also indicates some room for improvement." Metacritic, which uses...

Conrad, all treat the theme of mental dispossession within stylistic and tonal frameworks derived from classic film noir. The Manchurian Candidate examined...

furthering the narrative. Author Jim Whalley wrote that this presents a clear tonal shift in the sequel; in Ghostbusters, the characters are hired workers just...

lexical tone rather than a pitch-accent system or complete lack of phonemic tonal contrasts as with most other Austronesian languages. Matbat is spoken in...

bacteria. Finishing can also influence other wood properties, for example tonal qualities of musical instruments and hardness of flooring. In addition,...

Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Like most other Bantu languages, it is tonal; that is to say, pitch patterns are an important part of the pronunciation...

Andrew Rannells and Nick Kroll's chemistry but can't quite overcome its tonal language barrier." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the...

speakers cannot. Both Lhasa Tibetan and Khams Tibetan evolved to become tonal and do not preserve the word-initial consonant clusters, which makes them...

musical system. Its forms combine song, guitar, dance, compás, modal and tonal harmony, falsetas, handclaps, footwork, melodic ornamentation and improvisatory...

Archaic Tibetan (non-tonal), including Ladakhi, Balti and Burig Amdo Tibetan (including Thewo-Chone) (non-tonal) Khams Tibetan (tonal) Western Innovative...

in the post-credits scene. Trank and Slater's ideas for the film were tonally opposite, with Slater revealing that he viewed 2012's The Avengers as a...

Kodály found movable-do solfège to be helpful in developing a sense of tonal function, thus improving students’ sight-singing abilities. Kodály felt...

have temporally declined in tonal frequency. The vocalization of blue whales in the Eastern North Pacific decreased in tonal frequency by 31% from the early...

Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal and for their lack of nasal consonants. The Lakes Plain languages were tentatively...

keyboard layout. Because Vietnamese is a tonal language this letter may optionally have any one of the five tonal symbols above or below it, as in phở. Ờ...

witty, self-aware banter familiar to Buffy fans. Critics noted complex tonal dynamics within the narrative. Brady identified the novel's particular appeal...

suffix -ni (e.g., using ku soko instead of sokoni). Phonology: Distinct tonal patterns influenced by the Luba and Bemba languages of the mining workforce...

in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music; his Tristan...

only from a list of words collected by Johann Natterer. It may have been tonal. Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Brijnen, Hélène B. (2015-07-10). "Johann Natterer...

frame to hold her in place. Craven found the sequence difficult to balance tonally because he wanted to avoid trivializing Tatum's death while still paying...

time when modal music in Western tradition was largely supplanted by the tonal system. In this system a piece of music progresses from one chord to the...

way—notably through the principle of the tension-release mechanism of the tonal system. In that system, the tritone is one of the defining intervals of...

and Kajol, the cinematography, and the music, while some criticized its tonal shifts and pacing. The film was commercially successful, grossing over ₹1...

relationships) is replaced by one or several nontraditional tonal conceptions, such as tonal assertion or contrapuntal motion around a central chord. Although...

towards the prosthetic make-up design used on the Sea Hag, performances and tonal balance. Tourists arrive at Widow's Bay, to Tom's enjoyment. While driving...

Brahmo devotional hymns to quasi-erotic compositions. They emulated the tonal colour of classical ragas to varying extents. Some songs mimicked a given...

will be suppressed. The tonal harmonics from these other characteristic modes will then also be suppressed. Consequently, the tonal harmonics from the  ...

scratched out to affect its tonal qualities. The plate is then exposed to acid, to which the rosin particles are resistant, and tonal variation is controlled...

with an average rating of 7.9/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Tonally elastic and blessed with Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer's sparky chemistry...

practice and often structured chords in fourths and fifths. They were more tonally ambiguous, enabling new patterns for music. Chords also shrunk to tone...

Fon, which is mainly spoken in Benin. Like many African languages, Ewe is tonal as well as a possible member of the Niger-Congo family. The German Africanist...

l'histoire de l'harmonie. ISBN 978-0-945193-51-7. Forte, Allen (1979). Tonal Harmony. Third edition. Holt, Rinhart, and Winston. ISBN 0-03-020756-8....

tonal sounds, pulse sounds, and broadband sounds. Tonal sounds are further categorized into groups of harmonically structured sounds or regular tonal...

nontraditional scores tend towards being stark and sparse, utilizing a modern tonal palette to paint the backdrop for films that are often dark, psychological...

of the F0 (fundamental pitch), (c) a tones tier, with an analysis of the tonal events in terms of H and L, (d) a words tier with the words of the utterance...

work had improved since his debut; and Glenn Kenny noted Baena's skill in tonally dictating his film. Joshy was ranked the fifth best ever mumblecore film...

kidi have the ability to speak the language. Most African languages are tonal, so by producing different sounds at different pitches on the drum, the...

article, a form of constrained writing possible in tonal languages such as Mandarin Chinese, where tonal contours expand the range of meaning for a single...

dramatic beat in a script, the distinct visual look of the show, and how the tonal shift of each scene had to feel natural while serving the main storyline...

concede that Joe Biden had been elected President-elect. This negative tonal shift led to increased viewership of Newsmax and One America News among...

in North America, Mesoamerica, and Central America whose members are all tonal languages. It also stands out by having a much more analytic structure than...

// is a very common given name and surname of Igbo origin. Igbo being a tonal language, Obi can, depending on its pronunciation, either mean “heart”,...

sound of Yoruba speech. This is possible because the Yoruba language is tonal in nature. It is the most common and is present in many Yoruba traditions...

than one string. Tonal quality can be varied in two ways. First, different choirs of strings can be designed to have distinct tonal qualities, usually...

the United States and Europe, Aldrich developed a style characterized by tonal subtlety, atmospheric effects, and a restrained engagement with Impressionism...

on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends. Shirley's first album as a leader was Tonal Expressions, for Cadence Records. It reached No. 14 on Billboard's Best-Selling...

Also, tonal contour may reinforce the length, as in Estonian, where the over-long length is concomitant with a tonal variation resembling tonal stress...

India's northeastern states, as well as by Burmese diaspora. Burmese is a tonal, pitch-register, and syllable-timed language, largely monosyllabic and agglutinative...

certain divergent dialects of Hakka with Gan. All varieties of Chinese are tonal at least to some degree, and are largely analytic. The Chinese language...

and Kundesi is fleshed out beautifully. The writing triumphs, as despite tonal shifts, we are never detached from the proceedings." Sruthi Ganapathy Raman...

often feels blunt and didactic, criticizing its thematic execution and tonal shifts, while still acknowledging Quentin Dupieux’s continued interest in...

Hollywood Reporter gave a mixed-to-negative assessment, finding the show's tonal shifts between crudeness and sentimentality unconvincing and concluding...

in Theory and Practice: Volume II While the ultimate harmonic goal of a tonal composition is the final tonic triad, there will also be many interior harmonic...

divided into two distinct vocalizations, atonal girneys and tonal girneys. Both atonal and tonal girneys are submissive and accompanied by a hesitant approach...

Condor, Warped Vinyl, Tonal Recall, Brothers, Gravitas, Wombtone Ed O'Brien (Radiohead): Tonal Recall RKM John Mayer: Tonal Recall, Warped Vinyl Kid...

Such drums are called tonal bass drums. The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps were the first marching unit to use and standardize tonal bass drum tuning. Many...

based around simple chord progressions, often performed with a speed and tonal aggression that was novel for the time, making the band a notable influence...

He stated that the main challenge in editing the film was to give it a tonal balance for every transition between scenes: The rough cut was 165 minutes...

the scale are also known by traditional names, especially when used in a tonal context: 1st – Tonic (key note) 2nd – Supertonic 3rd – Mediant 4th – Subdominant...

"arrangements", "harmonies", and "nocturnes", emphasizing the primacy of tonal harmony. His most famous painting, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (1871)...

natively terminate in an aspirated velar plosive sound. As Meitei is a tonal language, the pitch of the syllable containing Khou is altered depending...

a traditional and highly poetic character." Many African languages are tonal; that is, the pitch is important in determining the meaning of a particular...

” While Gupta and others noted that the series at times struggled with tonal cohesion and narrative sharpness, there was broad recognition of its willingness...

Mor or Moor is a tonal Austronesian language. It is a primary branch of the South Halmahera–West New Guinea languages. Its dialects are Ayombai, Hirom...

region in the Gambia borders on a pitch accent due to its proximity with non-tonal neighboring languages like Wolof. Mandinka is here represented by the variety...

Indian Express also rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, writing, "The film is a tonal switch in its second-half, introducing a plot twist doused in mothballed...

American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement. Ralph Blakelock was born in New York City on October 15, 1847...

East Asia, Vietnamese is an isolating language (highly analytic) and is tonal. Structurally, Vietnamese is mixed between head-initial and head-final directionalities:...

variation to row-derived intervallic motives (or cells), sometimes in tonally suggestive ways and often organized through combinatorial hexachords. Begleitungsmusik...

Though the work is often described as being in the key of D major, the tonal scheme of the symphony as a whole is progressive. While the opening movement...

the music of Béla Bartók. The axis system is "concerned with harmonic and tonal substitution", and posits a novel type of functional relationship between...

unfolds over time through the expansion and development of these ideas. In tonal harmony, form is articulated primarily through cadences, phrases, and periods...

Resolution in Western tonal music theory is the move of a note or chord from dissonance (an unstable sound) to a consonance (a more final or stable sounding...

in many aspects, but differ in several ways as well. Both languages are tonal languages. High and low tones (or H and L) are the essential tones and,...

established through tonal evaluation: the brightest tones appear in illuminated areas and the darkest where illumination is minimal. Once tonal values are set...

books. Angela Watercutter of Wired noted that the series has significant tonal differences from the books and noted the show's changes to characters, particularly...

naturally terminate in an aspirated bilabial plosive sound. As Meitei is a tonal language, the pitch of the syllable containing Pham is altered depending...

financial flop, and was panned by critics, who criticized the casting, writing, tonal inconsistencies and radical departures from the source material. In 1667...

February 2024) was a Norwegian painter, film director, photographer and tonal-image composer. Since the 1950s, Aamot had been a pioneer within the field...

instruments. Name the key of a given piece of tonal music. Identify and name all the tones of a given chord or other tonal mass. Name the pitches of common everyday...

series "a cohesive whole for viewers attuned to logical consistency and tonal balance." Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express rated the series 2/5 stars...

altered some of the details of the original pitch, Dindal proposed a complete tonal shift into a comedy that Schumacher and Schneider responded favorably to...

visuals, action sequences, and soundtrack, but criticized the screenplay and tonal departure from the previous two films. The film was a box office success...

the tables and discussed in detail after the second table. The rules of tonal spelling follow in a separate section. In the tables Pinyin spellings are...

reads: "Outcome collapses under its own ambitions, playing as a garish, tonally erratic and heavy-handed satire that fumbles its intriguing ideas about...

combinations are shown in the table below: Only in the word ndyali. Tumbuka has a tonal accent but in a very limited way, in that every word, spoken in isolation...

but it's cobbled together in such a messy and disruptive manner. Sweeping tonal and perspective shifts create an unnatural atmosphere that attempts to do...

so kind of poetic" that they thought it would be "a little disingenuous tonally" to do so, with Moore calling the film "an emotional experience" that—similar...

languages (also known as Miao–Yao and rarely as Yangtzean) are a highly tonal language family of southern China and northern Southeast Asia. They are...

China. Unlike its close relative Southern Qiang, Northern Qiang is not a tonal language. Northern Qiang is composed of several different dialects, many...

a cappella. He was a conservative composer whose works are consistently tonal. What is striking about many of his compositions is a great preference for...

Review: Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson's Dynamic Performances Rein in a Tonally Bumpy Play". Variety. Retrieved April 22, 2026. Framke, Caroline (April...

photography, as it allowed for the production of images with more accurate tonal reproduction than the earlier emulsions that were sensitive only to blue...

Washington Post, Sophia Nguyen wrote that it aims to unsettle readers and moves tonally between comedy and discomfort, while suggesting that some of its more reflective...

Heywood's The Golden Age. Philaster and Cymbeline have strong verbal and tonal parallels, and both feature a broadly similar plot. Scholars are in general...

Paicî is an Austronesian language spoken in parts of New Caledonia. It is spoken in a band across the center of the island, in the communes of Poindimié...

forms that culminated in modern art, and the deconstruction of traditional tonal harmony in music. They continued the Romantic ideal, stressing depth of...

relationships. Howard Hanson first elaborated many of the concepts for analyzing tonal music. Other theorists, such as Allen Forte, further developed the theory...

percentage of modern classical music that is not tonal and/or consonant, Canto Ostinato contains tonal harmonies and does not become (very) dissonant....

the Lao script, an abugida that evolved from early Tai scripts. Lao is a tonal and analytic language, characteristics shared with other Kra-Dai languages...

It was created to replace the complex Gwoyeu Romatzyh system, which used tonal spelling—and to co-exist with the Wade–Giles romanization as well as bopomofo...

music, choral music and music for brass band and wind band. His style is tonal and rejoices in lively rhythms, brilliant orchestration, and an unabashed...

ISBN 978-0-07-294262-0. "One step above the tonic." Kostka, Stefan; Payne, Dorothy (2004). Tonal Harmony (5th ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill. p. 216. ISBN 0072852607. OCLC 51613969...

languages where Meeussen's rule, a rule describing a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages, is active. In 2020, the Rundi Academy was established...

from critics, who cited the screenplay's jarring plot twists, inconsistent tonal shifts and Trevorrow's unfocused direction, though some praised the performances...

adds that the medley's "selfish moments" are played in the context of the tonal centre of A, while "generosity" is expressed in songs where C major is central...

is ideal for individuals with experience in exercising. He recommended Tonal 2, a product from a competitor, as "a better pick" for those who can afford...

originated in reduplication. Unlike other New Caledonian tonal languages, Cèmuhî has three tonal registers: high, mid, and low tones. Northern New Caledonian...

forms indigenous to different regions of Africa and most often have equal tonal ranges for right and left hands. The kalimba is a modern version of these...

"Barks" come in two forms: "short barks" which are made during hunts and "tonal barks" which are a reaction to large snakes. Chimpanzees hunt tree-dwelling...

himself in the culture of the Polish Highlanders (Gorals) and embraced their tonal language, syncopated rhythms, and winding melodies in his music. In 1936...

Overdrive Reverb and more recently a Bludotone amplifier. Santana compares the tonal qualities of each amplifier to that of a singer producing head/nasal tones...

action sequences and performances were praised, the visual effects and tonal inconsistencies received widespread criticism. The film became a box office...

syncopated flautando effect with the melody resolving its dissonance through tonal displacements. He used the same volume-swell technique on "Yes It Is", applying...

Hatching (French: hachure) is an artistic technique used to create tonal or shading effects by drawing, painting, or scribing closely spaced parallel...

Intel, Mission Athletecare, OnePiece, OPI Products, Pepsi, Subway, Tempur, Tonal and the Walt Disney Company. Williams used the Wilson Hammer Stretch range...

social situations is not an option. In China and other countries where tonal languages are spoken, amusia may have the more pronounced social and emotional...

the genre as a theme park rather than a simulation. Its environment had tonal variety with serious lore and full characters but the intention to entertain...

of a spectacle, they found the resulting work "just completely wrong" tonally and instead focused on a more low-key approach. Curtis has opined "that...

simple as a lack of focus on the football elements of the series, or the tonal swings as we dig deeper into the characters' pain, or the fiction that a...

then the inverted melody has a falling major third (or, especially in tonal music, perhaps a falling minor third). According to The Harvard Dictionary...

due to tone deafness, would later encounter difficulties also in studying tonal languages such as Laguna. Boas had already been interested in Kantian philosophy...

Leh, Stotskat, spoken in the Indus valley and which unlike the others is tonal, Nubra, spoken north of Leh, the Changthang language, spoken in the Changtang...

February 13, 2022. Massoto, Erick (July 5, 2022). "Ted Prequel Series Will Tonally Match Hit Movie, Seth MacFarlane Confirms [Exclusive]". Collider. Archived...

which used to be spoken there. Like its close relative Ndrumbea, Numèè is a tonal language, with three contrasting tones, high, mid, and low. Numèè, or rather...

with critics praising its performances, philosophical themes, and humorous tonal shift, as well as the way it establishes the series' new status quo. In...

position, it represents an unreleased alveolar stop ([t̚]). As Meitei is a tonal language, the pitch of the syllable containing Til is altered depending...

The Brothers Sun's mix of brutality and sweetness sometimes veers into tonal whiplash, inspired fight choreography and a terrific cast keep it a fun...

larger variety of scales and modes (including much jazz, rock, and some tonal 20th-century concert music), writers often adopt the exclusive use to prevent...

The Karen (/kəˈrɛn/ kə-REN) or Karenic languages are tonal languages spoken by some 4.5 million Karen people. They are of unclear affiliation within the...

intra-tonal chromaticism that stands in notable contrast to the inter-tonal chromaticism of Richard Wagner and strikingly contrasts the extra-tonal chromaticism...

installment overall in the Kick-Ass film series. Vaughn described the project as tonally "The Inbetweeners with stunt-men". It stars Greg Townley, Paul Lowe and...

without prenasalisation as [b d dʒ ɡ]. Like most Bantu languages, Kikuyu is a tonal language. It has two level tones (high and low), a low-high rising tone...

sacrifices; this is the earliest account of Indian musical hymns. It proposed a tonal structure consisting of seven notes, which were named, in descending order...

group must have an ending of some kind … . Phrases are delineated by the tonal functions of pitch. They are not created by slur or by legato performance...

to his theory of small perceptions. Leibniz's ideas regarding music and tonal perception went on to influence the laboratory studies of Wilhelm Wundt...

Springer. p. 106. ISBN 0-387-94366-8. Kostka, Stefan; Payne, Dorothy (1995). Tonal Harmony (3rd ed.). McGraw-Hill. p. 102. ISBN 0-07-035874-5. Fonville, John...

its strings are not stopped by metal frets, instead having a continuous tonal range on the uninterrupted fingerboard. As well, bass guitars usually have...

overarching story and covering a large variation of topics with strong tonal shifts. Gunshow is well known for spawning the "This is fine" internet meme...

Fiennes' solid central performance in The King's Man is done dirty by this tonally confused prequel's descent into action thriller tedium." On Metacritic...

leading American composer of art music of the 20th century. Sources of Ives's tonal imagery included hymn tunes and traditional songs; he also incorporated...

The stress is most often on the first syllable. There are two phonemic tonal accents in Latgalian, which appear only on long syllables, i.e. those with...

"World in My Eyes" – 3:58 "Happiest Girl" (Jack mix) – 4:57 "Sea of Sin" (Tonal mix) – 4:43 UK 12-inch single A1. "World in My Eyes" (Oil Tank mix) – 7:29...

would later publish "the first reproduction of a photograph with a full tonal range in a newspaper" on March 4, 1880 (entitled "A Scene in Shantytown")...

ISBN 978-0-8793-0946-6. Doll, Christopher (2017). Hearing Harmony: Toward a Tonal Theory for the Rock Era. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472122882...

the country's capital, Kampala. Typologically, it is an agglutinative, tonal language with subject–verb–object word order and nominative–accusative morphosyntactic...

the Congo (DRC), the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Angola. It is a tonal language. The vast majority of present-day speakers live in Africa. There...

New Black's fifth season offers up more of the sharp writing and dizzying tonal juggling acts that fans expect – albeit somewhat less successfully." Chris...

Tejaswi's musical score, while noting that the film occasionally struggles with tonal shifts between drama, romance and social commentary. The New Indian Express...

with several interrelated geometric structures. The Riemannian Tonnetz ("tonal grid," shown on the right) is a planar array of pitches along three simplicial...

chant melodies) would have ended with a descending step to the finalis (the tonal center of a mode, comparable to a tonic), the bass voice would consequently...

Crawdads Sing is ultimately unable to distill its source material into a tonally coherent drama." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the...

prenasalized voiced occlusives, /ᵐb/, /ⁿd/, /ᵑɡ/, /ⁿz/, do not vary. Lingala is a tonal language. Tone is a distinguishing feature in minimal pairs, e.g.: mutu...

distinction (/t̪, ʈ/) is replaced by a dental–alveolar one (/t̪, t̠/). Sylheti is tonal. This is rare among the Indo-Aryan languages, but not unheard of, e.g. in...

the Middle East, specifically Lebanon ...." Reviewers noted the film as a tonal shift for Singer into straightforward biopic territory. Critics praised...

Poehler's acting, saying she has "supernatural exuberance but the semi-tonal quavers of doubt that keep that ... from being cloying or cartoonish". Magnett...

different purposes), and cedilla (ç). Diacritics used for tonal languages may be replaced with tonal numbers or omitted. Diacritic marks mainly appear in loanwords...

pianist. Initially influenced by Frédéric Chopin, he composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom. Later, independently of his contemporary Arnold Schoenberg...

investigated the tonal leveling of Mandarin between Mandarin-Waishengren (外省人) and Holo-Benshengren (本省人) in Taiwan. The results indicated that the tonal leveling...

sustained tension, but had more divided opinions on its narrative necessity and tonal execution. In Los Angeles, pregnant attorney Caitlyn Morales is assigned...

Turnit a Loose" (1969), however, Jimmy Nolen's guitar part has a bare bones tonal structure. The pattern of attack-points is the emphasis, not the pattern...

another in Chichewa is made partly by varying the tonal pattern (each tense having its own particular tonal melody) and partly by the use of infixes such...

reads, "Revival capitalizes on its crackerjack concept with an entertaining tonal variety, bolstered by Melanie Scrofano's captivating lead performance."...

(2014). Lexical Tones in Sylheti (PDF). 4th International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL-2014). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15...

characterized by accurate and transparent sound reproduction with neutral tonal balance. Audio engineer Alain Roux began designing and building loudspeakers...

1/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Practical Magic's jarring tonal shifts sink what little potential its offbeat story may have – though Nicole...

a weakness of the original Les Paul Signature bass, which was a lack of tonal definition in ensemble playing situations. The pickup is connected to a...

whole pixel values, whether to obtain a more detailed image or to improve tonal resolution, must necessarily engage the whole sensor. The first stabilization...

Vietnamese). Eastern Cham has developed a quasi-registral, incipiently tonal system. After the fall of Vijaya Champa in 1471, another group of Cham and...

Lili Loofbourow of The Washington Post said Wednesday's second season is "tonally darker than its predecessors, and that sometimes feels like a drag on the...

characters to be different from the first trilogy of films and feature a tonal change. By November, Holland was unsure if he should continue making Spider-Man...

University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-22809-1 Ting, Pang-Hsin (1996), "Tonal Evolution and Tonal Reconstruction in Chinese", in Huang, Cheng-teh James; Li, Yen-hui...

consensus reads: "Riddled with stereotypes, fatally unfunny, and a total tonal mishmash, Mafia Mamma is a criminal waste of Toni Collette." Metacritic...

twists and the performances of the cast, but drew some criticism for its tonal inconsistencies and ending. It grossed $188,756 on a budget of $3 million...

the 1930s, a gramophone etched it laterally across a disc. Constrained in tonal range, whether bass or treble, and in dynamic range, records made a grand...

Lettrism Neoplasticism De Stijl Orphism Surrealism Symbolism Synchromism Tonalism Literary arts Literature Apollinaire Barnes Beckett Bely Breton Broch Bulgakov...

principal note so that tonal movement is possible towards lower and higher pitches, thus ma is taken for granted as fixed in any tonal music (madhyama avilopi...

friendships and relationships. However, critics later highlighted distinct tonal differences. Emily St. James of The A.V. Club noted that "the differences...

frequently changing production rights with various companies, resulting in tonal changes that affected the character and his personality. In the original...

the tonal system, and is the most direct means of establishing a pitch as tonic. It is virtually obligatory as the final structural cadence of a tonal work...

major third, it has transpositional invariance and was often used to create tonal ambiguity in highly chromatic music of the nineteenth century. This use...

State Ebonyi State Enugu State Imo State Northern Delta State Igbo is a tonal language. Tone varies by dialect but in most dialects there seem to be three...

affecting adjacent words and syllables. This is a common feature of many tonal languages such as Burmese and Chinese. Sandhi can be either: internal, at...

A B C. This octave species is essentially the same as the major mode of tonal music. Church music had been explained by theorists as being organised in...

previously served by the caption voices. Duggan described the writers' tonal target with Ghostbusters as a reference point: comedy that did not preclude...

churches and private homes during the 19th century, although their volume and tonal range were limited. They generally featured one, or occasionally two, manuals...

systematically as a means of compensating for the loss of the traditional tonal functions." "Skryabin and the Impossible", p.314. Simon Morrison. Journal...

tell ourselves are the ones that shape our lives." Dallas Observer, "That tonal balance is perhaps Saunders’ greatest achievement in Re-Election. He distributes...

vowels Tonal languages are found throughout the world but are especially common in Africa - in fact, there are far more tonal than non-tonal languages...

squanders the strong comic chemistry between John Cena and Eric André on a tonally unfocused script that settles for broad, low-hanging gags and recycled...

Amsterdam Canadian Heidelberg school Aestheticism Arts and Crafts Art pottery Tonalism Decadent movement Symbolism Romanian Russian Volcano school Incoherents...

practitioners a solid coloratura technique, a capacity for patter singing and ripe tonal qualities if they are to be brought off to maximum effect. They are usually...

celebration of Arnold Schoenberg's rejection of tonality in chromatic post-tonal and twelve-tone works and Igor Stravinsky's move away from symmetrical rhythm...

in scenes exploring Zero's memory of wartime, underscoring the gradual tonal shift. Subdued beiges, orange, and pale blue characterize the visual palette...

speakers of non-tonal languages such as Malay to have a more natural speaking voice, some of these newer devices have allowed speakers of tonal languages such...

relationships that "bond" the notes to the sensations. Each bond has a tonal function. The first function is a bond that is linear, he calls it the melodic...

ii–V–I progression (supertonic–dominant–tonic) Play and are noted for the tonally unusual root movement by major thirds (either up or down by a major third...

accomplished musicians and composers, especially in the 20th century. The tonal structure of the East's music is defined by the maqamat, loosely similar...

appointments all add to the abundant nature of sub-categories and its unique tonal & functional property. Acoustic guitars form several notable subcategories...

critics consensus reads, "If Ginny & Georgia can't quite pull off its tonally ambitious first season, it's at least entertaining to watch it try." Metacritic...

Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film with 2 stars out of 5 and wrote, "The tonal change is not really convincing, and I wished that the film's potential...

Tehsil) of Jammu division. Unusually for an Indo-European language, Dogri is tonal, a trait it shares with other Western Pahari languages and Punjabi. It has...

Singlish is influenced by the race of the speaker and formality context. It is tonal and syllable-timed. The grammar of Singlish includes topic-prominence, omission...

alongside the album announcement on January 8. The band recorded the album at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, Maryland. Singer Matt Korvette stated that "Half Divorced...

position, it represents a final bilabial nasal sound ([m]). As Meitei is a tonal language, the pitch of the syllable containing Mit is altered depending...

1982). "Algorithm for Extraction of Pitch and Pitch Salience from Complex Tonal Signals". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 71 (3): 679...

survive today. As a leader of the Aesthetic Movement and a founder of Tonalism, Whistler had a profound effect on art in the 19th century and influenced...

2025. "Oh Bhama Ayyo Rama Movie Review: A quirky rom-com weighed down by tonal misfires". The Times of India. 11 July 2025. Harsh, B. H. (11 July 2025)...

are only marginally mutually intelligible. The Ezaa language consists 2 tonal patterns of speakers the broader Ezza language and the ukawu tone (southern...

somewhat simplistic. The OVA adaptation drew particular criticism for its tonal inconsistency due to graphic violence. Ushio Aotsuki, the son of a temple...

Webern's mature music was performed mostly outside the Reich, where only his tonal music and arrangements were allowed as works not in the style of a "Judenknecht"...

standard definition focuses on the thematic and harmonic organization of tonal materials that are presented in an exposition, elaborated and contrasted...

moments and strong performances but suffers from a familiar plot and jarring tonal shifts." Srivathsan Nadadhur of The Hindu wrote, "Couple Friendly may not...

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displays an overall tonal trajectory of E minor to E major, which—going from a minor key to its parallel major—is a common tonal trajectory in Western...

languages of Mizoram, along with English. Like the Chinese language, Mizo is a tonal language. There are four tones, high, low, rising and falling. It is commonly...

stages: in Gregorian chant theory, in Renaissance polyphonic theory, and in tonal harmonic music of the common practice period. In all three contexts, "mode"...

Revolution found the concept to be "not the most inspired", noting irony in the tonal shift of the game from a "send-up of reality" to a surreal one. Critics...

Sandawe population was estimated to be 40,000. The Sandawe language is a tonal language that uses click consonants, as do the Khoe languages of southern...

Bartók. Liszt helped develop chromatic tonality in many ways. He pioneered a tonal language of building chords in fourths, which was a technique later used...

status anxiety surrounding real estate and renovations", it "remains a tonal mess, not quite sure if it wants to be satire, sitcom or a Lifetime movie-of-the-week...

chordal accompaniment, tonal hearing, and tonal analysis are difficult to sustain. Nevertheless, at least three attempts at tonal analysis of the first...

the In scale. Peter Sculthorpe's Earth Cry uses the Hirajoshi mode as a tonal centre of the work. Guitarist Marty Friedman uses it heavily. In scale Japanese...

feel. She notes the graphic photographs of Megan's torture mark the film's tonal shift and that the camera's gaze, belonging to the heroines at the beginning...

architecture in unique, individual ways. On the one hand, his symphonic (and tonal) creativity was novel, while others thought that music should be taking...

Qiang consists of: Northern Qiang language (a non-tonal language) Southern Qiang language (a tonal language) There have been two phonetic writing systems...

and early classical music. His fugues and chorales especially reflect a tonal clarity and use of counterpoint reminiscent of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose...

do not naturally terminate in a labial-velar approximant. As Meitei is a tonal language, the pitch of the syllable containing Wai is altered depending...

"a droll mixture" of humor and horror that devolves into a "confounding tonal mess" that fails to balance its dark themes, undermining potentially interesting...

In tonal languages, tone names are the names given to the tones these languages use. In contemporary standard Chinese (Mandarin), the tones are numbered...

distinction shifting away from voice onset time is due to the introduction of tonal features, and instead proposes that it is a prosodically conditioned change...

as he introduced elements of atonalism – though remaining essentially a tonal composer – and of eastern music, particularly gamelan sounds but also eastern...

consensus reads: "California Schemin' transcends its predictability with its tonal evolution from playful comedy to poignant drama and central performances...

universe. Winder explained, "the overall goal and spirit, however, is tonally following the flavor of Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)." However, by season...

influenced Mongol, Jurchen, and Chinese musical traditions. The rhythmic and tonal pattern of the ci (詞) form of poetry, an important part of Song dynasty...

communicate with each other. Japanese and Korean are not tonal languages, but Chinese languages are tonal, which means that the proper pronunciation of a syllable...

a Tangkhulic language of Ukhrul District, Manipur, India. Challow is a tonal language with SOV word order, agglutinative morphology, and ergative-absolutive...

in a good way". Writing for The A.V. Club, Tim Lowery stated that the "tonal shift […] almost lands. But the workplace-comedy trappings and quips that...

learned people who make the highest use of French loanwords. Sango is a tonal language with subject–verb–object word order, and its orthography was officially...

Viennese School. Mahler's music influenced the trio's move from progressive tonalism to atonality (music without a key); although Mahler rejected atonality...

was the first to gain widespread use, as the P.A.F.'s hum-free signal, tonal clarity, and touch sensitivity when paired with overdriven amplifiers made...

M. Green distinguishes between genre and form in his 1965 book Form in Tonal Music. He lists madrigal, motet, canzona, ricercar, and dance as examples...

Common stylistic elements include exaggerated fight choreography, abrupt tonal shifts between slapstick and graphic physical comedy, and frequent use of...

social themes, suggesting that the film relies on contrived storytelling and tonal inconsistency rather than offering meaningful insight into American society...

Michael (July 29, 2020). "Taylor Swift Abandons Stadium-Pop For a New Tonal Approach on Folklore". PopMatters. Archived from the original on July 31...

Reynolds, who worked closely with them, said they were chosen because, "Tonally, they got it. They just [understood Deadpool] right off the bat." By that...

opportunity for that because it just meant more people would see it. And [tonally], Stargirl and the show has always been for everybody. Anyone can watch...

languages such as Burmese, Thai, Lao, and Vietnamese in that it is not a tonal language. Words are stressed on the final syllable, hence many words conform...

between Russ and his father. Herman also found that while Chad Powers shares tonal and structural similarities with Ted Lasso, it lacks the depth and emotional...

out of 5, praising the performances of the four leads, but criticising a "tonal clash" in the second half. "Penny Lane Is Dead". Adelaide Film Festival...

exhibit extreme rhythmic flexibility, an asymmetrical phrase structure and tonal ambiguity. After composing May Night, Rimsky-Korsakov was increasingly drawn...

Tonal marks for bopomofo Spacing Modifier Letters Tone Tone Marker Unicode Note 1 Yin Ping (Level) ˉ U+02C9 Usually omitted 2 Yang Ping (Level) ˊ U+02CA...

eventually, television. As a result of this work, his style became more tonal. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing...

characterized by atonal composition, noting that it had "clear tonal center" and "tonal patterns". He described the work as "hypnotic", noting its departure...

In music theory, prolongation is the process in tonal music through which a pitch, interval, or consonant triad is considered to govern spans of music...

of the centi- prefix in metric units, thus límǐ (厘米) for centimeter. The tonal difference makes it distinguishable to speakers of Chinese, but unless specifically...

Proto-Indo-Iranian stage of the language: PIE *h₂weh₁·nt- → va·ata-. Early Vedic had a tonal system inherited from the Proto-Indo-European accent, which only distinguishes...

in particular while being critical of the show's "breakneck pacing and tonal shifts", and not fully committing to its self-aware commentary. Netflix...

Thanajirawat (2018) classifies Tai Yuan into five major dialect groups based on tonal split and merger patterns. (See also Proto-Tai language#Tones) most Tai...

musicologist Walter Everett, the Beatles' "experimental timbres, rhythms, tonal structures, and poetic texts" on their albums Rubber Soul (1965) and Revolver...

is often credited by historians and jazz performers to a return to non-tonal music of the nineteenth century, including field hollers, street cries,...

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Debussy's do not follow a strict pattern of tonal centers. Each book was written in a matter of months, at an unusually fast...

by anxiety, frustration, and anger, was effectively used to create a "tonally daring" show that vacillates between comedy, drama, and thriller. Tallerico...

riffs, stripped down to their rhythmic essence. On both recordings, the tonal structure is bare bones. The pattern of attack points is the emphasis, not...

in Carnatic music. It has several components: a primordial sound (nāda), tonal system (swara), pitch (śruti), scale, ornaments (gamaka), and important...

scold'). The number of tonal contrasts varies, with Northern varieties tending to have fewer distinctions than Southern ones. The tonal categories of modern...

visual aesthetic, and lead performances were appreciated, the screenplay and tonal inconsistencies were subjects of criticism. The film performed below expectations...

Common topics included the bold visual direction, gameplay innovations, tonal differences from the original, and if Star Fox 64 was worth remaking in...

means of changing between tonal centers. This unites the prelude in a ternary form characteristic of Copland, moving the tonal center by a tritone in the...

reviews. David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "it plays like a tonally uncertain blend of desert neo-noir, prickly buddy movie, misfit character...

the instructor, course, and university. It can also make stylistic and tonal recommendations. An "Expert review" feature, which attributed Grammarly's...

"Custom Shop"). Introduced in 2001, the CS-336 was the Custom Shop's first "tonally carved" guitar, meaning that the back, center block, and sides are carved...

accented acute syllables had rising or falling pitch differed by dialect). The tonal accents that emerged from this process are called "acute accent" and "circumflex...

compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) tonal bebop harmony. Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. was born on June 20, 1928, in Los Angeles...

classification, Chakma is notably tonal—a characteristic rare among Indo-Aryan languages, which are typically non-tonal. This tonal feature is believed to be...

critics consensus reads, "Sporadically suspenseful, Barbarians is too tonally indecisive to consistently make its most important points". Metacritic...

which was inherited from Proto-Indo-European and has evolved into the tonal accents of modern Swedish and Norwegian, which in turn have evolved into...

not naturally terminate in a palato-alveolar affricate. As Meitei is a tonal language, the pitch of the syllable containing Chil is altered depending...

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position, it represents a final alveolar nasal sound ([n]). As Meitei is a tonal language, the pitch of the syllable containing Na is altered depending on...

reads, "Shaking up its ensemble yet again while staying consistent in its tonal unevenness, The Morning Show's fourth season ought to satisfy viewers who...

pentodes. Beam power tubes can be connected as triodes for improved audio tonal quality but in triode mode deliver significantly reduced power output. Gas-filled...

southwest. Old Nubian is thought to be ancestral to Nobiin. Nobiin is a tonal language with contrastive vowel and consonant length. The basic word order...

(the "home note" of a piece) as a temporary tonic in a composition. In tonal music, pieces (or sections) are in a key. This means that the tonic chord...

position, it represents a final velar nasal sound ([ŋ]). As Meitei is a tonal language, the pitch of the syllable containing Ngou is altered depending...

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more modern, freely using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale within his tonal framework, as detailed in his three-volume treatise, The Craft of Musical...

choruses and distorted wails, with the chorus placing greater emphasis on tonal delivery than lyrical clarity. Elijah Pareño of Rolling Stone Philippines...

of Togo in the Maritime Region. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language. The Gen language is spoken by the Gen-Mina people, who originated...

popularity. The reasons cited include the work's resemblance to familiar tonal music; the way it links music with nature by using recorded birdsong; the...

the same singers with different lyrics to suit the different rhyme and tonal patterns of Mandarin. Mandopop is categorized as a subgenre of commercial...

melody should be composed in such a way that it also shadowed the syllabic tonal patterns", which "should sound natural to the ear as well as being easily...

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for it to "replace those structural differentiations provided formerly by tonal harmonies". As such, twelve-tone music is usually atonal, and treats each...

This allows the most economical presentation of information regarding post-tonal materials. In the integer model of pitch, all pitch classes and intervals...

textures, structural complexity, novel instrument combinations, shifting tonal centers, and hypnotic rhythms as psychedelic qualities present in the Beach...

signature are said to be in a relative relationship. Forte, Allen (1979). Tonal Harmony (3rd ed.). Holt, Rinehart, and Wilson. p. 9. ISBN 0-03-020756-8...

the film a mildly positive review, saying that it rides "a fascinating tonal line between black comedy and sincere character drama." Catherine Bray of...

The site's critics' consensus reads: "The Untamed attempts some ambitious tonal juggling between fantastical and disturbing – and draws viewers in with...

"The representation of structural tones, with special reference to the tonal behaviour of the verb, in Bemba, Northern Rhodesia". Africa, 25, 393-404...

language family. Unlike most other languages of its family, Wolof is not a tonal language. Wolof is the most widely spoken language in Senegal, spoken natively...

analysis process at the neutral level, such as the generative theory of tonal music and Narmour's Implication-Realization model. A third trend may provide...

produced divided reactions, with some critics praising the film’s bold tonal balance and others questioning whether the satire was too subtle. As of...

expecting their first child, Buckley posted the strip "Loss", a dramatic tonal shift from previous CAD strips. The strip was a four-panel comic with Ethan...