Here is a minimal tone set from Mandarin Chinese, which has five tones, here transcribed by diacritics over the vowels:

Of Constable's colour, Delacroix wrote in his journal: " What he says here about the green of his meadows can be applied to every tone ".

Gates, put off one last time by Arnold's tone, dismissed him, saying, " You have no business here.

He also composed Chiaroscuro &# 91 ; Listen here &# 93 ;, for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart for The Dranoff International Two Piano Foundation.

He refers here expressly to the " meḳonenot " ( the mourning women ) who in the East still chant the death-song to the trembling tone of the pipe ( 48: 36 and following ).

comes here as near perfection in the grand manner as he ever did ; the poem is flawless in tone from beginning to end ; spare, grave, free from excessive decoration, and full of firmly controlled feeling.

As to our orchestra that isn't here, we'll miss only its brilliance and tone.

Questioned about this apparent inconsistency, Clarke said the differences were " really a matter here of emphasis and tone.

Billy Gibbons ' fat guitar tone really has some presence here, at least on some of the album, and there are enough rhythm tracks not performed to a didactic click track to provide some real swing.

The eclecticism of Brian's music here borrows references as diverse as mediaeval fauxbourdon, Renaissance multiple polyphony on the scale of Tallis's Spem in alium all the way through to twentieth century tone clusters, polytonality and the use of percussion and brass in a Varèse-like outburst of extreme dissonance.

" Deep Six continues to lecture the boys in his muffled tone, and one boy responds with some lightning fast dialogue which sounds something like " It's really cold out here ... bye!

Mostly attacking alternative medicines, homeopathy and chiropractors, the tone here can be rather harsh.

" As Michel Faber explains in his review for The Guardian, " here we have all the defining features of Clarke's style simultaneously: the archly Austenesque tone, the somewhat overdone quaintness (" upon the Tuesday "), the winningly matter-of-fact use of the supernatural, and drollness to spare.

( As noted above, adjustments to the pitch of one note, usually the A4 fingering, can be made by moving the headjoint in and out of the headjoint tenon, but the point here is that the mechanical relationship of A4 to all other pitches is set when the tone holes are cut.

1972, 6, The story " had no basis in Jewish reality ", but compared to other chivalric romances it " tone down the Christian symbols of his original " and " substitute Jewish customs, Jewish values and Jewish traits of character here and there ..." 1972, 8

The Dogri spoken here is known for its sweetness in tone.

Todd replies ( seemingly in a low tone ) " No, I think we should just admire her from here .".

'' Patchen is still the rebel, but he writes in a doleful, mournful tone.

The violinist, in particular, is very indulgent with swoops and slides, and his tone is pinched and edgy.

The twenty-five-year-old recording offers rather faded string tone, but the balance between the instruments is good and the transfer is very quiet.

It is obvious enough that linguists in general have been less successful in coping with tone systems than with consonants or vowels.

The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

Analyses such as these four will simultaneously combat the assumptions that tone is impossible and that it is simple.

If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.

However, any such suggestion accounts for only some of the difficulties in hearing tone, or in developing a realistic attitude about tone, but not for the analytic difficulties that occur even when tone is meticulously recorded.

In some ( the Ewe type mentioned above ) interaction of tone and intonation is restricted to the ends of intonation spans.

A third explanation is suggested by Richardson's analysis of Sukuma tone.

In the `` typical tone language '', tonal morphophonemics is of the same order of complexity as consonantal morphophonemics.

There is a quick change from the plaintive song to a conversational tone.

There is only one sense in which it is valid to talk about Hardy's development: he did develop toward a more consistent and more effective control of that tone which we recognize as uniquely his.

The elegiac tone is Hardy's natural tone of voice, and it is not surprising that the 1912 - 13 poems are consistently and unmistakably his.

It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.

One learns to become alert to changes in his vocal tone -- to his voice's suddenly shifting to a quality not like his usual one, a quality which sounds somehow artificial or, in some instances, parrot-like.

Still, even in such languages tone analysis has not been as simple as one might expect.

In one now-historic first interview, for example, the transcript ( reproduced from the book, The First Five Minutes ) goes like this: The therapist's level tone is bland and neutral -- he has, for example, avoided stressing `` you '', which would imply disapproval ; ;

For most of these scripts, regardless of whether letters or diacritics are used, the most common tone is not marked, just as the most common vowel is not marked in Indic abugidas ; in Zhuyin not only is one of the tones unmarked, but there is a diacritic to indicate lack of tone, like the virama of Indic.

The recently extinct Ubykh language had only 2 or 3 vowels but 84 consonants ; the Taa language has 87 consonants under one analysis, 164 under another, plus some 30 vowels and tone.

The wind up is one of the most important aspects of the throw because it sets the tone for the entire throw.

Some players perform with the sides of one, two, or three fingers, especially for walking basslines and slow tempo ballads, because this is purported to create a stronger and more solid tone.

The simplest stompbox pedals have a single footswitch ; one to three potentiometers for controlling the effect, gain or tone ; and a single LED display to indicate whether the effect is on or not.

In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

The neck pick-up was sent to one amp and set for a clean, bass-heavy tone, which then ran into two Ampeg V4b 215 cabs, while the bridge pick-up was sent to the other amp which was set with an exaggerated treble boost, and extra gain in the preamp and was sent into two Thiele 215 cabs.

Also, in order to change a string from one tone to another during a performance, a harp player must take one entire hand off the harp for a moment and switch the lever — this may cause an acoustic gap in a performance, as for a brief moment only one hand will be in use.

Bend notes will have a curved arrow, slightly to the left for a flat half tone, and a long one for a full bend.

This was to set the tone for French-Iroquois relations for the next one hundred years.

According to Evans, if the passage had been an interpolation after the emergence of conflicts between Jews and Christians, it would have had a more accusative tone, but in its current form reads as one would expect it to read for a passage composed by Josephus towards the end of the first century.

But this example of Netter is not well chosen, since the tone of Wycliffe toward Kynyngham is that of a junior toward an elder whom one respects, and he handled other opponents in similar fashion.