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WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Tonal (disambiguation)

tonal         
Tonal means relating to the qualities or pitch of a sound or to the tonality of a piece of music.
There is little tonal variety in his voice.
...tonal music.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
tonal         
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¦ adjective
1. relating to tone.
2. relating to or denoting music written using conventional keys and harmony.
Derivatives
tonally adverb
Generative theory of tonal music         
THEORY OF MUSIC
Generative Theory of Tonal Music
A generative theory of tonal music (GTTM) is a theory of music conceived by American composer and music theorist Fred Lerdahl and American linguist Ray Jackendoff and presented in the 1983 book of the same title. It constitutes a "formal description of the musical intuitions of a listener who is experienced in a musical idiom" with the aim of illuminating the unique human capacity for musical understanding.

Wikipedia

Tonal

Tonal may refer to:

  • Tonal (mythology), a concept in the belief systems and traditions of Mesoamerican cultures, involving a spiritual link between a person and an animal
  • Tonal language, a type of language in which pitch is used to make phonemic distinctions
  • Tonality, a system of writing music involving the relationship of pitch to some centered key
  • Tonal system, a hexadecimal (base 16) system of notation, arithmetic, and metrology proposed by Nystrom in 1859
  • "Tonal", a song by the American band Bright from the album The Albatross Guest House
  • Tonal, an at-home fitness company
Examples of use of tonal
1. The number of listeners, and even the type of clothes they wear, can change the tonal picture.
2. What mars "Q & A" can best be described as a tonal problem.
3. This approach was never slavish: the tonal design of Mander organs was invariably eclectic.
4. Paul Krugman was brave and brilliant after '/11 when few dared challenge President Bush‘s "war on terror", but now he‘s mono–tonal.
5. Setting some kind of tonal vision for the church, the Church of England; pastoral involvement and collaboration with the other bishops.