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Tonal may
refer to:
Tonal (mythology), a
concept in the
belief systems and
traditions of Mesoamerican...
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Tonal is a
concept within the
study of
Mesoamerican religion, cosmology,
folklore and anthropology. It is a
belief found in many
indigenous Mesoamerican...
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Tonalism was an
artistic style that
emerged in the 1880s when
American artists began to
paint landscape forms with an
overall tone of
colored atmosphere...
- in
almost all
Western po****r
music remains tonal.[vague]
Harmony in jazz
includes many but not all
tonal characteristics of the
European common practice...
- are
called tonal languages; the
distinctive tone
patterns of such a
language are
sometimes called tonemes, by
analogy with phoneme.
Tonal languages are...
- The
tonal system is a base 16
system of
notation (predating the
widespread use of
hexadecimal in computing), arithmetic, and
metrology proposed in 1859...
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Atonality in its
broadest sense is
music that
lacks a
tonal center, or key. Atonality, in this sense,
usually describes compositions written from about...
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first note of a scale) and the
tonal center or
final resolution tone that is
commonly used in the
final cadence in
tonal (musical key-based) classical...
- 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...
- 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...
