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.

In classical solo playing the double bass is usually tuned a whole tone higher ( F-B-E-A ).

The reference to the Jewish " boast ", and, indeed, the strident anti-Jewish tone of the whole passage, suggests another issue: some Christians thought that it was undignified for Christians to depend on Jews to set the date of a Christian festival.

Whereas his references to Judah are of a general kind, Ephraim or Samaria being sometimes mentioned in the same connection or more frequently alone, the situation implied throughout and the whole tone of the addresses agree with what we know of the Northern Kingdom at the time, and his references to places and events in that kingdom are so numerous and minute as to lead to the conclusion that he not only prophesied there, but that he was a native of that part of the country.

In the Alps are also chromatic dulcimers with crossed strings, which are in a whole tone distance in every row.

Rather uncommon scales such as whole tone scale are also typical for this movement.

Impressionist composers favoured short forms such as the nocturne, arabesque, and prelude, and often explored uncommon scales such as the whole tone scale.

" Along with other improvisers, such as saxes and piano players, bebop-era jazz guitarists began to improvise over the chord changes using scales ( whole tone scale, chromatic scale, etc.

This is the technique of letting the acid bite lightly over the whole plate, then stopping-out those parts of the work which the artist wishes to keep light in tone by covering them with ground before bathing the plate in acid again.

A major scale may be seen as two identical tetrachords separated by a whole tone, or whole step, the new set of steps " Whole: Whole: Half: Whole: Whole: Whole: Half "( in Semi-tone 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 ).

# The Poznanski dialect, spoken in Poznań and to some extent in the whole region of the former Prussian annexation ( excluding upper Silesia ), with characteristic high tone melody and notable influence of the German language.

Open E and Open A, formed by raising each of those tunings a whole tone, are also common.

The tone of the poem as a whole is a particular matter of debate ; some see the poem as ultimately pessimistic and politically subversive to the Augustan regime, while others view it as a celebration of the new imperial dynasty.

An accidental sign raises or lowers the following note from its normal pitch ignoring sharps or flats in the key signature, usually by a semitone, although microtonal music may use " fractional " accidental signs, and one occasionally sees double sharps or flats, which raise or lower the indicated note by a whole tone.

This is the technique of letting the acid bite lightly over the whole plate, then stopping-out those parts of the work which the artist wishes to keep light in tone by covering them with ground before bathing the plate in acid again.

Though quarter-comma meantone is the most common type, other systems that flatten the fifth by some amount, but that still equate the major whole tone ( 9 / 8 in just intonation ) with the minor whole tone ( 10 / 9 in just intonation ), are also called meantone systems.

Meantone temperaments can be specified in various ways: by what fraction ( logarithmically ) of a syntonic comma the fifth is being flattened ( as above ), what equal temperament has the meantone fifth in question, the width of the tempered perfect fifth in cents, or the ratio of the whole tone to the diatonic semitone.

This limited familiarity with the possible phenomena has severely hampered work with tone.

The main purpose of this work is to give a general account of Aristotelian cosmology and metaphysics, but it also has a polemical tone, and it may be directed at rival views within the Peripatetic school.

Terry Plumeri furthered the development of arco ( bowed ) solos, achieving horn-like technical freedom and a clear, vocal bowed tone, while Charlie Haden, best known for his work with Ornette Coleman, defined the role of the bass in Free Jazz.

* Other critics of Eusebius ' work cite the panegyrical tone of the Vita, plus the omission of internal Christian conflicts in the Canones, as reasons to interpret his writing with caution.

In his work De motu musculorum, Galen explained the difference between motor and sensory nerves, discussed the concept of muscle tone and explained the difference between agonists and antagonists.

" Jarmusch's early work is marked by a brooding, contemplative tone, featuring extended silent scenes and prolonged still shots.

As the First World War progressed, however, his work became darker, gradually developing a distinctive expressionist tone.

Among the qualities that make Leonardo's work unique are the innovative techniques that he used in laying on the paint, his detailed knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology, his interest in physiognomy and the way in which humans register emotion in expression and gesture, his innovative use of the human form in figurative composition, and his use of the subtle gradation of tone.

Commentators such as Paul Kocher, John D. Rateliff and C. W. Sullivan encourage readers to treat the works separately, both because The Hobbit was conceived, published, and received independently of the later work, and also to prevent the reader from having false expectations of tone and style dashed.

** Comedy of errors – a work that is light and often humorous or satirical in tone, in which the action usually features a series of comic instances of mistaken identity, and which typically culminates in a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.

The irreverent tone that Paine combined with this vulgar style set his work apart from its predecessors.

Boehm's work was inspired by an 1831 concert in London given by soloist Charles Nicholson who, with his father in the 1820s, had introduced a flute constructed with larger tone holes than were used in previous designs.

His work on Frederick is of opposite tone, being an optimistic portrayal of the glorious potentials of imperial authority.

Post-war electronics made such systems much easier to work with by creating pseudo-random noise based on a short input tone.

There is also a more diverse type of whistle used for giving commands to sheepdogs at work, which can emit almost any tone the shepherd wishes, in order to signal different commands.

Mezzotint — from the Italian mezzo (" half ") and tinta (" tone ")— is a " dark manner " form of printmaking, which requires artists to work from dark to light.

However, Holst is said to have considered the short, subdued but powerful tone poem his " best work ".

Clear examples of the usefulness of autosegmental analysis came in early work from the detailed study of African tone languages, as well as the study of vowel and nasal harmony systems.

Donald Bellisario, the show's frontrunner, felt that the concept of a person living in the body of another person to make change for the better, would work well in a science fiction setting, creating the tone for the series.

However, the tone of a work, especially in a discrete section, may help create the overall tone, effect, or meaning of the work.

'' 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.

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.