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Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...
The term boundary tone refers to a rise or fall in pitch that occurs in speech at the end of a sentence or other utterance, or, if a sentence is divided into two or more intonational phrases, at the end of each intonational phrase. It can also refer to a low or high intonational tone at the beginning of an utterance or intonational phrase.
Tone sandhi occurs to some extent in nearly all tonal languages, manifesting itself in different ways. [1] Tonal languages, characterized by their use of pitch to affect meaning, appear all over the world, especially in the Niger-Congo language family of Africa, and the Sino-Tibetan language family of East Asia, [2] as well as other East Asian languages such as Kra-Dai, and Papuan languages.
Tone in an artistic context refers to the light and dark values used to render a realistic object, or to create an abstract composition. When using pastel , an artist may often use a colored paper support, using areas of pigment to define lights and darks, while leaving the bare support to show through as the mid-tone.
A register consists of the homogeneous tone qualities produced by the same mechanical system, whereas registration is the process of using and combining the registers to achieve artistic singing. For example: a skilled singer moves through their range and dynamics smoothly, so that you are unaware of register changes.
Each repetition of "rise" is a semitone higher than the last, making this an especially overt example of word-painting. [7] "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen includes another example of word painting. In the line "It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift, the baffled king composing hallelujah," the lyrics signify ...
For example: Jazz musicians use the term "lead" or "head" to refer to the main melody, which is used as a starting point for improvisation . Rock music , and other forms of popular music and folk music tend to pick one or two melodies ( verse and chorus , sometimes with a third, contrasting melody known as a bridge or middle eight ) and stick ...
A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. [1] Mixing a color with any neutral color (including black, gray, and white) reduces the chroma , or colorfulness , while the hue (the relative mixture of red, green, blue, etc., depending on the colorspace) remains unchanged.