Tone
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Tone may refer to:
Sound
- Musical tone
- Musical note, the name of a pitch
- Pitch (music), the high or low sound of a musical instrument
- Pure tone is a tone with a sinusoidal waveform
- Reciting tone, such as Psalm tone and recitative, as in Gregorian chants
- Timbre, the quality of a musical note or sound that distinguishes different types of sound production
- Tonality, a system of music based on a key "center", or tonic
- Tone control, a (typically electronic) control for affecting frequency content of an audio signal
- Tone (linguistics), the pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages
- Tone (musical instrument), the audible characteristics of a musician's sound
- Whole tone, or major second, a commonly occurring musical interval
Music and artists
- 2 Tone (music genre) or Two Tone, style of music combining elements of ska and punk
- Tone (TVXQ album), a 2011 album by Tohoshinki
- Tone (Jeff Ament album), a 2008 album by Jeff Ament
- Tones (album), a 1986 album by Eric Johnson
- Tønes (born 1972), artistic name of Norwegian singer Frank Tønnesen
Places
- Tone River (disambiguation)
- Tone, Gunma, Japan
- Tone, Ibaraki, Japan
- Tone, Somerset, England
Physiology
- Muscle tone, the state of tension or responsiveness of the organs or tissues of the body
- Toning exercises, the use of exercise to develop hard, but not necessarily large, musculature tone
People
Given name
- Tone Lōc (born 1966), American hip hop artist and actor
- Tone Damli Aaberge (born 1988), Norwegian singer
- Tone, American producer and member of the production group Trackmasters
- Tone, alias of Tony Chung, member of Taiwanese-American mainstream pop duo Cool Silly
Surname
- Franchot Tone (1905–1968), American actor
- Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish republican
- Yasunao Tone (born 1935), Japanese artist
Other uses
- A mix of tint and shade in painting and color theory
- Japanese cruiser Tone (pronounced "Toe-Neh"), ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Lightness, the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a colour
- Tone (literature), a literary technique which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work that is compatible with the other drive
- Tone (magazine), New Zealand technology magazine
- Tone's Spices, a brand owned by Associated British Foods
- Toning (coin), colour change in coins
See also
- Tonal (disambiguation)
- Tonic (disambiguation)
- Tune (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Tone"
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