tonal

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  1. adjective Of or relating to tones, a tone, or tonality.

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  • Children exposed to a multi-year programme of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically trained peers, according to a study published today in the journal Psychology of Music, published by SAGE.
  • I combined the jazz element with the five-tonal, but that was my experimentation which was seen at Harvard. —  Filter Magazine
  • Beck's mastery of simultaneous volume swells and micro-tonal whammy-bar precision found pockets of untapped emotion living in the gaps between the 12 standard musical notes. —  FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
  • And I think a kind of tonal question amongst the candidates about sort of -- show me that you appreciate that, that the leader of the United States is sort of trying to forge a consensus in a very disparate and non-polar world. —  CFR.org -
  • I think he uses something like the tonal contrast after making an HDR picture. —  doggdot.us
 

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/ˈtoʊnəl/
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