Example sentences for: tonal

How can you use “tonal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 2. Used as bridge or connector; new part of speech, to add power or point, enhance tonal quality.

  • In the Romanization system I learned (and a pox on Peiking/Beijing for replacing the clear with the opaque) the two characters are transliterated as mei-kuo , disregarding the tonal diacritical marks.

  • Rap returns us to the same sprawling prolixity as 1890s ballads--and 12-verse story songs, whether they're lilting waltzes or numbingly hard-core, are rarely distinguished as music . Almost all turn-of-the-century blockbusters have the simplest of tonal structures.

  • That's because Sun Ra's reputation was established not by Jazz in Silhouette but by albums like the 1965 Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra , whose garrulous improvisations and expressionist timbres--devoid of a tonal center, with much less of a tune to hang on to--made it an exemplary statement of free jazz.

  • The words of the songs are projected onto screens alongside the proscenium arch to clarify the nuances of a tonal language set to music.


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