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Definition of Tone system

1. Noun. The system of tones used in a particular language or dialect of a tone language.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tone System

Literary usage of Tone system

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theory and Practice of Musical Composition by Adolf Bernhard Marx, Emilius Girac (1860)
"These tones constitute what is called the tone system. This tone-system contains above one hundred tones. It would have occasioned much difficulty to fix ..."

2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1907)
"While this may be a valuable aid, further study inclines me to the belief that there may be a tone system of qualities comparable to the spectrum in vision, ..."

3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"The form of unequal temperament most widely adopted was the mean-tone system. The rule of this system is that its fifths are all a quarter of a comma flat. ..."

4. The Nature of Music: Original Harmony in One Voice by Julius Klauser (1909)
"We shall see that the evolutionary expansion of tonality and of the tone-system are due on the one hand to the multiplication of these prototypes, ..."

5. The Nature of Music: Original Harmony in One Voice by Julius Klauser (1909)
"Meanwhile the relation of tonality and tone- system requires definition. The tone-system is the index and scale of tones in use. The tones had their origin ..."

6. How to Understand Music: A Concise Course in Musical Intelligence and Taste by William Smythe Babcock Mathews (1881)
"We shall see that the evolutionary expansion of tonality and of the tone-system are due on the one hand to the multiplication of these prototypes, ..."

7. Music (1895)
"But it was the mean-tone system whicli mostly held sway till equal temperament was at ... Not that the mean-tone system could have every major Third true. ..."

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