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Definition of Tone language
1. Noun. A language in which different tones distinguish different meanings.
Generic synonyms: Natural Language, Tongue
Specialized synonyms: Contour Language, Register Language
Terms within: Tonal System, Tone System
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tone Language
Literary usage of Tone language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Music: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Art, Science, Technic and (1896)
"Might not the ability to perceive and reproduce sounds of different pitch been
sufficient to form a pure tone- language? Would not this have been possibly ..."
2. The Musical World (1856)
"In this tone-language must the dramatic personage speak, if we are to understand
him with excited feelings ; he must, however, at the same time, ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1895)
"... tone-sequence until these tone-language materials joined, blended with each othe
... if we would have the tone-language closely, correctly, intr mately, ..."
4. The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science (1844)
"This tone-language is adopted to supplement verbal language ; and we all feel
... Tone-language is a part of music. It was probably the origin of all music. ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"We have not space to discuss and illustrate fully the conveyance of ideas by
tone-language, and merely wish to state sufficient to draw attention to it as ..."
6. The Musical World (1871)
"He alone to whom this wondrous tone-language has become a ... So Nature sets her
future musicians chattering in the " tone-language '' so soon as ever power ..."
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