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Two-tone or 2 tone, also known as ska-rock[citation needed] and ska revival, is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that...

Example of Hauer's tropes[2] Problems playing these files? See media help. The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism...

A nonchord tone (NCT), nonharmonic tone, or embellishing tone is a note in a piece of music or song that is not part of the implied or expressed chord...

a whole tone. Quarter tones divide the octave by 50 cents each, and have 24 different pitches. Quarter tones have their roots in the music of the Middle...

Two-tone siren, a European type of siren Two-tone language Diphthong (Greek for two tones), in linguistics, a gliding vowel Two-tone (music genre), music...

The Volkswagen Type 2 is a forward control light commercial vehicle introduced in 1950 by the German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model. Known...

This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed...

In music, timbre (/ˈtæmbər, ˈtɪm-, ˈtæ̃-/), also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical...

distances or intervals among the notes of a scale tell us more about the sound of the music than does the mere number of tones." Scales may also be described...

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...

and most types of serial music. Tone rows were widely used in 20th-century contemporary music, like Dmitri Shostakovich's use of twelve-tone rows, "without...

Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) is a telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines between telephone...

(corresponding to the "reciting tone" of the psalm tones), is a fifth above the final of the scale, with the exception of mode 3 (Phrygian), where it is...

music theory, the term mode or modus is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context. Its most common use may be described as a type of musical...

tonic can be a different tone in the same scale, when the work is said to be in one of the modes of the scale. Simple folk music songs often start and end...

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that...

often (in microtonal music notation, for example) other types of sharps may be used: A half sharp, or demisharp, or quarter tone () raises a note by approximately...

classical music and Western music in general, the most common tuning system since the 18th century has been 12 equal temperament (also known as 12 tone equal...

A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale. Prototypical tone clusters are based on the chromatic scale and...

1⁄12 the width of an octave, is called a semitone or half step. Twelve-tone equal temperament is the most widespread system in music today. It has been...