For example in some tonal languages with few tones, whistled messages typically consist of stereotyped or otherwise standardized expressions, are elaborately descriptive, and often have to be repeated.

This is very unusual because Vietnamese is a tonal, isolating language whose morphemes all consist of a single syllable.

Synchronic and comparative-historical studies of tone systems show that such a basic system can easily develop more tonal contrasts under the influence of depressor consonants or through the introduction of a downstep.

This period was marked by the introduction of tonal instruments from both East and West, such as the violin, accordion, oud, tabla and bongo.

Moreover, the motivic activity between this bass line and the melodic features of the introduction strengthens the significance of D as a tonal center, overriding sectional contrasts.

( This is a concise and methodical introduction to both tonal and atonal music analysis.

The third movement is arguably atonal and the introduction to the finale is very chromatic, arguably has no tonal centre, and features a soprano singing " Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten " (" I feel the air of another planet "), taken from a poem by Stefan George.

* A few Indo-European languages, namely Ancient Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Limburgish, Lithuanian, the West South Slavic languages ( Slovene and Serbo-Croatian ), Vedic Sanskrit, and Punjabi have limited word-tone systems which are sometimes called pitch accent or " tonal accents ".

It is one of the few instruments by Henry Willis, the doyen of Victorian English organ builders, to survive without substantial modification of its tonal design.

Schenker himself was certain that a tonal masterpiece contains an inner truth – content, although few are sufficiently gifted to appreciate it.

Firstly, while the primary indication of accent is pitch ( tone ), there is only one or a few tonic syllables or morae in a word, or at least in simple words, the position of which determines the tonal pattern of the whole word.

While they do not pursue the simplifiying approach of Fayrfax ( an almost exact contemporary of Cornysh junior, and fellow at Court and Chapel ), and remain in a more old-fashioned florid melodic style, they adopt proto-madrigalian manners ( for example in the setting of words like " clamorosa ", " crucifige " and " debellandum " in the Stabat mater ) and have a particularly developed sense of tonal movement ( for example, in the Stabat mater, the closing " Amen " features deliberate use of F sharps as leading notes to give a sense of tonal cadence into G, or employing E flats at " Sathanam " to give a tonal cadence onto B flat, emphasizing the " strong " nature of the text at that moment, employing the bass-movement V-I ), as well as adopting a more modern sense of the expressive apoggiatura in melodic shapes and in bringing out the stresses of the Latin by such devices ( for example, again the Stabat mater, the use of apoggiaturas in the Bassus part to express " ContriSTANtem et doLENtem " in the first few measures, and again at " Contemplari doLENtem cum filio?

Ticuna is a tonal language, with five tones corresponding to five levels of voice pitch, one of the few languages in the world to have so many level distinctions ( Cantonese, for example, only has 3 levels, although it also has rising and falling tones, while Ticuna does not ).

About 3, 500 of them are speakers of the Tsat language, which is one of the few Malayo-Polynesian languages that are tonal.

This structure gives the instrument its exceptional sonority and tonal quality among all percussion instruments and also the rich harmonics which range from its tuned pitch of a few hundred Hertz to a few KiloHertz.

It is considered one of the few editing actions permissible in modern photojournalism along with tonal balance, colour correction and sharpening.

In his final years he produced a number of prints experimenting with tonal effects, though these were little known at the time ; he had long made much use of wash in his drawings, and was now attempting with considerable success to achieve similar effects in etching, though only a few good impressions could be taken from the plate.

Ten Holt generally uses consonant, tonal materials and his works are organized in numerous cells, made up of a few measures each, which are repeated ad libitum according to the player's preference.

In the last few decades, the popularity of the batá drums has increased worldwide so significantly that they have begun to be produced in greater numbers both by large western drum companies and individual artisans in Africa using a variety of " non-traditional " materials even including fiberglass drums, some instrument builders preferring cow skins or even synthetic membranes, while some traditionalists may express disdain for this trend and insist upon strict orthodoxy ( as others and newcomers embrace the unique tonal ranges of the drums purely for their abstract musical possibilities without observance of traditional rules and rituals ).

The language has been analysed by some scholars as tonal, with tonal differences distinguishing lexical items ( with few minimal pairs ) and syntactic constructions.

The pitches of the four melodies combine to clearly define a tonal center and imply chords.

He classifies chords in six categories, on the basis of how dissonant they are, whether or not they contain a tritone, and whether or not they clearly suggest a root or tonal center.

The ramifications of the charango tuning is that there is a very narrow tonal range in most chords, and so there is a tremendous wall of sound.

Poulenc's music is fundamentally tonal ; although he made use of harmonic innovations such as pandiatonicism and chromatically altered chords.

In Western tonal music, one also finds chord progressions between chords whose roots are related by perfect fifth.

A series of works in the 1960s and 1970s generates its tonal material by using all possible chords of a particular number of pitches.

For the majority of western tonal music, Finale chooses the correct spelling for chords of the tonic and dominant keys correctly, but when the music wanders to tonal regions further away from the tonic, Finale tends to make mistakes by treating chords as if they belonged to the tonic key in some way.

The harmonic structure of his pieces can be highly abstruse, with frequently shifting tonal centres, and his soloing follows from a self-taught advanced modal framework derived directly from his unusually-voiced chords.

According to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ), " Barbershop music features songs with understandable lyrics and easily singable melodies, whose tones clearly define a tonal center and imply major and minor chords and barbershop ( dominant and secondary dominant ) seventh chords that resolve primarily around the circle of fifths, while making frequent use of other resolutions.

Consonant harmony is a much noted feature: it means the use of intervals which in a tonal context would be considered to be " stable ", that is the form to which other chords are resolved by voice leading.

András Wilheim has noted that only the last 17 measures of Ionisation include musical tones of the " traditional tonal system ", where any five successive chords contain the 12 tones of the chromatic scale.

Jackson's vocal chords ranges between the tonal nodes of high-tone F < sub > 3 </ sub > to low-tone Bb < sub > 4 </ sub >.

Jackson's vocal chords ranges between the tonal nodes of high-tone G < sub > 3 </ sub > to low-tone D < sub > 5 </ sub >.

On a piece such as " Nebuchadnezzar " Roberts uses the traditional harmonies and chords, then builds an expansive tonal and melodic structure.

Another difference between native and non-native Hausa is the omission of vowel length in words and change in the standard tone of native Hausa dialects ( ranging from native Fulani and Tuareg Hausa-speakers omitting tone altogether, to Hausa speakers with Gur or Yoruba mother tongues using additional tonal structures similar to those used in their native languages ).

In the past, tone was considered so fundamental to language that tonal typology could be used as the basis for classification.

A shaded watermark, first used in 1848, incorporates tonal depth and creates a greyscale image.

When the <- ως > ending is used to transform an adjective whose tonal accent is on the third syllable from the end, such as < επίσημος > (< epísimos >, " official "), the corresponding adjective is accented on the second syllable from the end ; compare < επίσημα > (< epísima >) and < επισήμως > (< episímos >), which both mean " officially ".

Mezzotint was the first tonal method to be used, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line-or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple.

Prior to MDCT coding, Generalized Harmonic Analysis ( GHA ) is used to extract tonal components, an improved version of the process used in ATRAC3.

Important in tonal musical composition is the scale for the notes used, including the mode and tonic note.

The specific mallets used can have a great effect on the tonal characteristics of the sound produced, ranging from a bright metallic clang to a mellow ring with no obvious initial attack.

The latter was a great advocate of the work of Ingres, and impressed Whistler with two principles that he used for the rest of his career: line is more important than color and that black is the fundamental color of tonal harmony.

Also, while the terms " symphonic poem " and " tone poem " have often been used interchangeably, some composers such as Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius have preferred the latter term for pieces that were less symphonic in design and in which there is no special emphasis on thematic or tonal contrast.

To make the difference clear without tonal marks, the spelling " Shaanxi " was contrived ( following the romanization system of Yuen Ren Chao ) for the province of Shǎnxī, while " Shanxi " is used for the province of Shānxī.

In paintings the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modelling of the subjects depicted ",

It was the first tonal method to be used, enabling half-tones to be produced without using line-or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple.

Where the engraving technique uses a needle to make lines that print in black ( or whatever colour ink is used ), aquatint uses powdered rosin to create a tonal effect.

The slap technique bears some resemblance to tambour, a percussive technique used in flamenco and classical guitar, although the tonal quality produced in this technique is quite different from that of a slapped electric bass.

His works from this time sometimes used the twelve-tone technique, were sometimes diatonic, were sometimes based on the Arabic scales ( such as maqam saba ) he had heard in Palestine and sometimes employed some other method of tonal organisation.

Occasionally tonal instruments such as the piano and the qanun ( a stringed instrument ) are used.

Schoenberg had made a return to tonal writing upon his move to America and, though the Violin Concerto uses twelve-tone technique, its neoclassical form demanded a mimesis of tonal melody, and hence a renunciation of the motivic technique used in his earlier work in favour of a thematic structure ( Rosen 1996, 101 ).

During this period and beyond, Gallagher used different combinations of amps on stage to achieve more power and to blend the tonal characteristics of different amps including Orange amplification.

However, in most styles of rock and blues guitar the line out is not used to connect the guitar amp to a PA system or recording console because the tonal coloration and overdrive from the amplifier and speaker is considered an important part of the amplifier's sound.

He used both serial and tonal techniques.

The term " pitch accent " is also used in Native American linguistics to refer to minimal tonal systems such as are found in Iroquoian and Athabaskan languages, for example.