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A reference tone is a pure tone corresponding to a known frequency, and produced at a stable sound pressure level (volume), usually by specialized equipment...

tones. Tones were recognised by Greek philosopher Aristoxenus (375–335 BCE), who called them "tensions". Mathematics of musical scales Reference tone...

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

number-one dance club songs "Tone Loc". IMDb. Retrieved August 15, 2018. "Tone-Loc Biography (1966?-)". FilmReference.com. Tone Loc. Gale Research Inc. 1989...

music. Its name derives from 2 Tone Records, a record label founded in 1979 by Jerry Dammers of the Specials, and references a desire to transcend and defuse...

identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. AP may be demonstrated using linguistic labelling ("naming" a note)...

A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (orally, or logarithmically) as a semitone...

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

Theobald Wolfe Tone, posthumously known as Wolfe Tone (Irish: Bhulbh Teón; 20 June 1763 – 19 November 1798), was a revolutionary exponent of Irish independence...

playing these files? See media help. The twelve-tone technique—also known as dodecaphony, twelve-tone serialism, and (in British usage) twelve-note composition—is...

In Western music theory, a major second (sometimes also called whole tone or a whole step) is a second spanning two semitones (Play). A second is a musical...

A tone indicator or tone tag is a symbol attached to a sentence or message sent in a textual form, such as over the internet, to explicitly state the intonation...

older reference works as rectus, gravis, circumflexus, altus and demissus, respectively. The table shows an example of both the phonemic tones and their...

equalization, continuity, synchronization, or reference purposes. In FM stereo broadcasting, a pilot tone of 19 kHz indicates that there is stereophonic...

tone is a feature of wireline modems. The guard tone is sent by the answering modem after it has sent the answer tone. It is a single continuous tone...

system since the 18th century has been 12 equal temperament (also known as 12 tone equal temperament, 12 TET or 12 ET, informally abbreviated as 12 equal),...

produced along with the fundamental tone. In simple cases, such as for most musical instruments, the frequencies of these tones are the same as (or close to)...

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...

A dial tone (dialling tone in the UK) is a telephony signal sent by a telephone exchange or private branch exchange (PBX) to a terminating device, such...

the tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude toward or feelings about the subject matter and audience. The concept of a work's tone has...