Tonal system

Tonal system can refer to

  • Arab tone system, the modern Arabic system of musical tuning
  • Chromatic scale or twelve-tone scale, a set of twelve pitches used in tonal music
  • Tone (linguistics), the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
  • Tonality, the arrangement of pitches and / or chords of a musical work
  • Tonal system (Nystrom) a base 16 system of notation, arithmetic, and metrology proposed in 1859 by John W. Nystrom

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