• A reference tone is a pure tone corresponding to a known frequency, and produced at a stable sound pressure level (volume), usually by specialized equipment...
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    tones. Tones were recognised by Greek philosopher Aristoxenus (375–335 BCE), who called them "tensions". Mathematics of musical scales Reference tone...
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    number-one dance club songs "Tone Loc". IMDb. Retrieved August 15, 2018. "Tone-Loc Biography (1966?-)". FilmReference.com. Tone Loc. Gale Research Inc. 1989...
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  • between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that...
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    Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) is a telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines between telephone...
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  • music. Its name derives from 2 Tone Records, a record label founded in 1979 by Jerry Dammers of the Specials, and references a desire to transcend and defuse...
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    older reference works as rectus, gravis, circumflexus, altus and demissus, respectively. The table shows an example of both the phonemic tones and their...
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  • identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. AP may be demonstrated using linguistic labelling ("naming" a note)...
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    A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (orally, or logarithmically) as a semitone...
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    playing these files? See media help. The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is...
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  • A tone indicator or tone tag is a symbol attached to a sentence or message sent in a textual form, such as over the internet, to explicitly state the intonation...
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  • Ringing tone (audible ringing, also ringback tone) is a signaling tone in telecommunication that is heard by the originator of a telephone call while the...
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    Major second (redirect from Whole tone)
    In Western music theory, a major second (sometimes also called whole tone or a whole step) is a second spanning two semitones (Play). A second is a musical...
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    Overtone (redirect from Upper partial tone)
    produced along with the fundamental tone. In simple cases, such as for most musical instruments, the frequencies of these tones are the same as (or close to)...
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    Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (Irish: Bhulbh Teón; 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence...
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  • A dial tone (dialling tone in the UK) is a telephony signal sent by a telephone exchange or private branch exchange (PBX) to a terminating device, such...
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    system since the 18th century has been 12 equal temperament (also known as 12 tone equal temperament, 12 TET or 12 ET, informally abbreviated as 12 equal),...
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  • tone is a feature of wireline modems. The guard tone is sent by the answering modem after it has sent the answer tone. It is a single continuous tone...
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  • Pilot signal (redirect from Pilot tone)
    equalization, continuity, synchronization, or reference purposes. In FM stereo broadcasting, a pilot tone of 19 kHz indicates that there is stereophonic...
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  • delimiters. A series of iconic tone letters based on a musical staff was devised by Yuen Ren Chao in the 1920s by adding a reference stave to the existing convention...
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  • relativity, an inertial frame of reference (also called inertial space, or Galilean reference frame) is a frame of reference in which the laws of nature take...
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  • A recorder warning tone is a tone transmitted over a telephone line to indicate to the called party that the calling party is recording the conversation...
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    stimuli is needed before testing proceeds (in reference to ISO, ANSI, or other standardization body). Pure-tone audiometry only measures audibility thresholds...
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    in Rapper's Death". Los Angeles Times. Cook, John. "Notorious LAT". Reference tone. Archived from the original on October 2, 2013. Retrieved September...
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    Equal-loudness contour (category Articles needing additional references from December 2020)
    presented with pure steady tones. The unit of measurement for loudness levels is the phon and is arrived at by reference to equal-loudness contours....
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    the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. The concept of a work's tone has...
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    Ƨ (redirect from Tone two (letter))
    the Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to indicate the second, or falling, tone (IPA: [˧˩]), due to its resemblance to the numeral 2, along with four other...
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  • In physiology, medicine, and anatomy, muscle tone (residual muscle tension or tonus) is the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles,...
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    isochronic tone is a tone that is being turned on and off rapidly. They create sharp, distinctive pulses of sound. Isochronic tones are tones of any frequency...
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  • Tone (利根村, Tone-mura) was a village located in Tone District, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the village had an estimated population of 5,025 and...
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