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Definition of Tones
1. tone [v] - See also: tone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tones
Literary usage of Tones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"There are two kinds of resultant tones, the Differential and the Sum- ...
The following diagram shows the pitches of the differential tones of the principal ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1920)
"The readings for the difference tones, however, coincide exactly with the calculated
... The results from the summation tones were entirely negative, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Following natural and mathematical laws the tones of the female voice are an octave
... The Absolute Pitch of tones, that is the pitch independent of scale ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"(Statements " If, now, tones or combinations of tones are produced in the
neighborhood of the block, eo that sufficiently powerful waves enter the opening a ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"But in the first place it is necessary to remember that harmony, which is based
on the triad and on the interplay and flow of consonant and dissonant tones, ..."
6. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1885)
"Differential tones so produced—as in the harmonium—can be reinforced and ...
The more effective cause of the production of combinational tones is, however, ..."
7. A Manual of Harmony by Salomon Jadassohn (1893)
"The number of primary or natural tones employed as the building-material of music
is limited to seven, from which we derive five further derivative tones. ..."
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