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Example sentences for: tonal

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