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Look up tonal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tonal may refer to: Tonal (mythology), a concept in the belief systems and traditions of Mesoamerican
Tonal
Artistic movement
Tonalism was an artistic style that emerged in the 1880s. The movement was eventually eclipsed by Impressionism and European modernism. The French Barbizon
Tonalism
Concept in Mesoamerican religion
Tonal is a concept within the study of Mesoamerican religion, cosmology, folklore, and anthropology. It is a belief found in many indigenous Mesoamerican
Tonal_(mythology)
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
languages. The distinctive tonal patterns of such a language are sometimes called tonemes, by analogy with phoneme. Tonal languages are common in East
Tone_(linguistics)
Harmonic structure with a central pitch
role in establishing tonality. Harmony in jazz similarly includes certain tonal characteristics of the European common practice period (colloquially known
Tonality
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
Peter Westergaard's tonal theory
Peter_Westergaard's_tonal_theory
Topics referred to by the same term
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
Tonal_system
1953 jazz music theory book by George Russell
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
Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization
Lydian_Chromatic_Concept_of_Tonal_Organization
American rock band
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
Papa_Roach
Tonal center of a diatonic scale
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
Tonic_(music)
Ability to remember a specific tone
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
Tonal_memory
Music that lacks a tonal center or key
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about
Atonality
Method of analyzing tonal music
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
Schenkerian_analysis
1890–1920 art movement in California
California Tonalism was art movement that existed in California from circa 1890 to 1920. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette
California_Tonalism
American photographer and environmentalist (1902–1984)
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
Ansel_Adams
2026 American comedy horror television series
its performances, direction, writing, production values, originality, and tonal balance of horror and comedy. For its first season, it received 19 nominations
Widow's_Bay
Diagram of harmonic relations in music
Tonnetz (German for 'tone net') is a conceptual lattice diagram representing tonal space first described by Leonhard Euler in 1739. Various visual representations
Tonnetz
Tonal Impressionism was an artistic style of "mood" paintings with simplified compositions, done in a limited range of colors, as with Tonalist works
Tonal_Impressionism
Shapeshifting sorcerer in Mesoamerican folk religion
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
Nagual
Contrapuntal musical form based on a subject that recurs in imitation
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
Fugue
Ratio between the largest and smallest values that a certain quantity can assume
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
Dynamic_range
Musical scale set of twelve pitches
from which scales could be constructed." However, "from the standpoint of tonal music [the chromatic scale] is not an independent scale, but derives from
Chromatic_scale
1910s art movement
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
Australian_tonalism
Music unstructured from harmonic patterns
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
Post-tonal_music_theory
Chord progression
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
Andalusian_cadence
2026 film by Kristoffer Borgli
website's consensus reads: "Flirting with complex themes, The Drama walks a tonal tightrope with impressive poise thanks to career-highlight performances
The_Drama_(film)
American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)
Lettrism Neoplasticism De Stijl Orphism Surrealism Symbolism Synchromism Tonalism Literary arts Literature Apollinaire Barnes Beckett Bely Breton Broch Bulgakov
Orson_Welles
English musician and actor (born 1940)
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'
Ringo_Starr
Musical term
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:
Function_(music)
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
Lettrism Neoplasticism De Stijl Orphism Surrealism Symbolism Synchromism Tonalism Literary arts Literature Apollinaire Barnes Beckett Bely Breton Broch Bulgakov
Vincent_van_Gogh
Theory of music based on intuitions of a listener
The generative theory of tonal music (GTTM) is a system of music analysis developed by music theorist Fred Lerdahl and linguist Ray Jackendoff. First
Generative theory of tonal music
Generative_theory_of_tonal_music
Systematic organization of spoken sounds of the Norwegian language
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
Norwegian_phonology
Western music history period (c. 1650 to 1900)
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
Common_practice_period
Phonetic alphabets describing Slovene
From those transcriptions, "tonal transcription" (used for tonal orthography) and "non-tonal transcription" (used for non-tonal orthography), which also
Slovene national phonetic transcription
Slovene_national_phonetic_transcription
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
Tone_reproduction
System of phonetic notation
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,
International Phonetic Alphabet
International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Eastern Min Chinese language
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
Fuzhou_dialect
Change in tone contour based on adjacent syllable tones
transcription delimiters. Tone sandhi is a phonological change that occurs in tonal languages. It involves changes to the tones assigned to individual words
Tone_sandhi
2022 American television series
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
Star_Trek:_Strange_New_Worlds
2013 film by Zack Snyder
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
Man_of_Steel_(film)
Proposed base 16 system
The tonal system is a base 16 system of notation (predating the widespread use of hexadecimal in computing), arithmetic, and metrology proposed in 1859
Tonal_system_(Nystrom)
Emulation of speech by whistling
tone melody carries more of the functional load of communication while non-tonal phonology carries proportionally less. The genesis of a whistled language
Whistled_language
Video game franchise
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
God_of_War_(franchise)
Dense musical chord
Metastaseis (1955) is an elaboration of the tone cluster. "Unlike most tonal and non-tonal linear dissonances, tone clusters are essentially static. The individual
Tone_cluster
Language that uses pitch changes for accent
languages like English. Pitch-accent languages also contrast with fully tonal languages like Vietnamese, Central Thai and Standard Chinese, in which practically
Pitch-accent_language
Kra–Dai language
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
Thai_language
Tonal degree of the diatonic scale
seventh chords may also have dominant function. In very much conventionally tonal music, harmonic analysis will reveal a broad prevalence of the primary (often
Dominant_(music)
Country in Southeast Asia
temporary residents). The national language of the country is Vietnamese, a tonal Vietic language in the Austroasiatic language family, which is spoken by
Vietnam
Watermarking technique
Italian papermaker C.M. Fabriano Also called a chiaroscuro watermark, a tonal, shaded, or shade-craft watermark, or a shadowmark Samson, Linda (1993)
Light-and-shade_watermark
Icelandic singer (born 1965)
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
Björk
2023 Marvel Studios film
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
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_Vol._3
constituent interval for the fundamental chords of tonal harmony. The fundamental chords of tonal music—major and minor triads and also seventh chords—all
List_of_fifth_intervals
American screenwriter and film director (1977–2025)
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
Jeff_Baena
2008 film by Christopher Nolan
focused on the way studios, eager to replicate its performance, released tonally dark, gritty, and realistic films, or reboots of existing franchises, many
The_Dark_Knight
Family of attack helicopters by Agusta, later AgustaWestland
version of the A129, alternatively called the Joint European Helicopter Tonal or Light Attack Helicopter (LAH). By 1988, feasibility studies for four
Agusta_A129_Mangusta
Study of the practices and possibilities of music
theory is often concerned with abstract musical aspects such as tuning and tonal systems, scales, consonance and dissonance, and rhythmic relationships.
Music_theory
Digital image analysis tool
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
Image_histogram
Indo-Aryan language
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
Punjabi_language
2016 Marvel Studios film
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
Captain_America:_Civil_War
Papuan language family
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
Lakes_Plain_languages
American actress (born 1989)
drive, Johnson is no match for [Tracee Ellis] Ross's carefully calibrated tonal swings between imperiousness, self-awareness, isolation and down-to-earth
Dakota_Johnson
1993 film by Steven Spielberg
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
Jurassic_Park
American rock band
Californication and By the Way, Frusciante derived the technique of creating tonal texture through chord patterns from post-punk guitarist Vini Reilly of the
Red_Hot_Chili_Peppers
Chadic language spoken in West Africa
widely spoken language within the Chadic branch of that family. Hausa is tonal, using relative pitch both to distinguish words, and mark grammatical categories
Hausa_language
Relationship among tones of the chromatic scale
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
Circle_of_fifths
Post-1945 period in classical music
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
Contemporary_classical_music
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
List of major/minor compositions
List_of_major/minor_compositions
2014 Marvel Studios film
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
Guardians of the Galaxy (film)
Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_(film)
Playing back a passage of notes
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"
Retrograde_(music)
Grammatical features of Chichewa
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
Chichewa_tenses
Country in South Asia
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
India
American musician (1942–2025)
John B" (1966). Many of Wilson's compositions are marked by destabilized tonal centers. He frequently used key changes within verses and choruses, including
Brian_Wilson
English actor (born 1945)
lukewarm critical response from critics, who felt that it suffered from "tonal inconsistency and a lack of truly insightful retrospection." Mirren was
Helen_Mirren
Linear succession of tones in the foreground of a musical work
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
Melody
"reductional format" to represent the perception of pitch-class relations in tonal contexts. These two-dimensional models resemble bar graphs, using height
Pitch_class_space
Tonal degree of the diatonic scale
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
Subdominant
Semisyllabary used for transcribing Cantonese and Yue Chinese
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
Cantonese_bopomofo
Geolinguistic region of areal features
proto-Hmong–Mien, proto-Tai and early Vietnamese all display a three-way tonal contrast in syllables lacking stop endings. In traditional analyses, syllables
Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area
Mainland_Southeast_Asia_linguistic_area
2022 Marvel Studios film
performances of Hemsworth, Bale and Portman, but criticized its visual effects and tonal inconsistencies. The film grossed $760.9 million worldwide, making it the
Thor:_Love_and_Thunder
Restatement of a musical passage
subsequent segments are exact transpositions of the first segment, while a tonal sequence is a sequence where the subsequent segments are diatonic transpositions
Sequence_(music)
Language family of Asia
southern China, and northeastern India. All languages in the family are tonal, including Thai and Lao, the national languages of Thailand and Laos, respectively
Kra–Dai_languages
Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written 1928–1940
Lettrism Neoplasticism De Stijl Orphism Surrealism Symbolism Synchromism Tonalism Literary arts Literature Apollinaire Barnes Beckett Bely Breton Broch Bulgakov
The_Master_and_Margarita
American actor (born 1969)
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
Edward_Norton
1965 studio album by the Beatles
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
Rubber_Soul
2022 superhero film by Matt Reeves
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
The_Batman_(film)
Group of West Central German dialects
linguists because of the tonal distinctions made between different words, for example (Ripuarian) zɛɪ (tonal accent 1) "sieve" vs. zɛɪ (tonal accent 2) "she".
Central_Franconian_languages
2017 film by Denis Villeneuve
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
Blade_Runner_2049
American classical composer (1933–2023)
Easley Rutland Blackwood Jr. (April 21, 1933 – January 22, 2023) was an American professor of music, concert pianist, composer (sometimes using unusual
Easley_Blackwood_Jr.
Raising of the pitch of a second, same-tone syllable
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
Upstep
Triad of scale patterns in music theory
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
Minor_scale
1967 studio album by the Beatles
album's title track "afforded McCartney's bass with richer textures and tonal clarity". Some of the mixing employed automatic double tracking (ADT), a
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band
American actor and producer (born 1937)
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
Morgan_Freeman
Central Semitic language
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
Arabic
Quality of a musical note or sound or tone
Robert Erickson found encompassed much contemporary music: Range between tonal and noiselike character Spectral envelope Time envelope in terms of rise
Timbre
Latin letter U with horn
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
Ư
Japonic language
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
Japanese_language
Model for music education
account the concepts of discrimination and inference learning in terms of tonal, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns. "Audiation" is a term Gordon coined in
Gordon_music_learning_theory
2015 Marvel Studios film
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
Ant-Man_(film)
2008 Marvel Studios film
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
The_Incredible_Hulk_(film)
2019 film by Simon Kinberg
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
Dark_Phoenix_(film)
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Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Obedient
Girl/Female
American, Anglo, Australian, British, Christian, Danish, English, French, Hawaiian, Hebrew
Valley; Dean; Vindicated; Supervisor; Avenged; Judgement
Boy/Male
Australian, German
Counselor; Protector
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Dress of heaven
Biblical
defluxion; imposthume
Boy/Male
English
From the town by the creek.
Boy/Male
Hawaiian
Counselor; advisor.
Boy/Male
Arabic
Nature; Character
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Never Get Lose in War; Which can Not be Conquered
Boy/Male
Tamil
The ceremony of worshiping
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n.
A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations.
n.
The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole.