Examples of tone in the following topics:
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- In writing, tone is defined as the author's attitude or emotion toward the subject and the reader.
- Most business correspondence is written in the formal tone.
- Even the most positive message can be misunderstood if the tone is not correct.
- Most business correspondence is written in the formal tone .
- In a negative message, it is best to use a gracious and sincere tone.
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- A passing tone is a non-chord tone (dissonance) that occurs between two chord tones, creating stepwise motion.
- The typical figure is chord tone – passing tone – chord tone, filling in a third (see example), but two adjacent passing tones can also be used to fill in the space between two chord tones a fourth apart.
- Like the passing tone, a complete neighbor tone is a non-chord tone (dissonance) that occurs between two chord tones; however, a complete neighbor tone will occur between two instances of the same chord tone.
- Also like the passing tone, movement from the chord tone to the neighbor tone and back will always be by step.
- Between those two instances of the chord tone are tow non-chord tones—one a step above and the other a step below the chord tone.
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- It can also tell us how many common tones are retained when a set is transposed.
- Because there is a 2 in the fifth column, it will retain2 common tones when transposed by either T5 or T7.
- As indicated above, only T2, T10, T5, or T7 will keep common tones.
- Any other transposition will have zero common tones.
- When transposed by T6, it will have 2—not 1—common tones.
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- Muscle tone is a measure of a muscle's resistance to stretching while in a passive resting state.
- Muscle tone is controlled by neuronal impulses and
is influenced by receptors found in the muscle and tendons.
- To maintain tone spindles also operate a
feedback loop through by directly triggering motor neurons linked to their
associated muscle.
- If tone decreases and the muscle stretches the spindles
trigger an impulse resulting in the contraction of the muscle.
- Muscle tone ensures that even when at rest the muscle is at least partially contracted.
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- In a whole tone scale, every interval is a whole step.
- In both the chromatic and the whole tone scales, all the intervals are the same.
- Listen to a whole tone scale: http://cnx.org/content/m11636/latest/WholeTone.mid.
- There are basically two possible whole tone scales.
- Now write a whole tone scale beginning on an a flat.
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- In strict keyboard style, there are two main types of pitch tendency to keep in mind: tendency tones and functional dissonances.
- The most prominent tendency tones in Western tonal styles are ti (not te) and le (not la).
- This is called a frustrated leading-tone.
- In strict keyboard style, these functional dissonances should be "prepared" (approached) by common tone or by step.
- Thus, though they are proper members of the chord, melodically they will look like one of the three dissonance types of species counterpoint: a passing tone or neighbor tone dissonance that is approached by step, or a suspension dissonance that is approached by a common tone.
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- Subjective tone: "I always tell people if you want to work with wood, you've got to know what it is.
- [Does this tone refer mostly to the author and reflect a conversational tone including his or her opinions?]
- Tone shows the writer's attitude towards the subject and the audience.
- The writer's tone can influence the reader's response to the writing.
- In academic writing, it's important to maintain an appropriate tone throughout.
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- Variations in timbre between specific instruments - two different trombones, for example, or two different trombone players, or the same trombone player using different types of sound in different pieces - may be called differences in timbre or color, or may be called differences in tone or in tone quality.
- Tone quality may refer specifically to "quality", as when a young trombonist is encouraged to have a "fuller" or "more focussed" tone quality, or it can refer neutrally to differences in sound, as when an orchestral trombonist is asked to play with a "brassy" tone quality in one passage and a "mellow" tone quality in another.
- Here are a few words commonly used to describe either timbre or tone quality.