Tonal quality is a subjective measurement, of course, and Stradivarius violins vary in their tones.
In a tonal composition, harmonic movement is the "plot" that propels the listener through time.
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Sometimes the depth of his feelings about things is hard to ascertain because there's no tonal variation.
The result of this distinctive design is amazing clarity with minimal loss throughout the entire tonal range.
Heifetz left behind a legacy of recordings that are revered for their tonal beauty and incomparable musicianship.
And that tonal shift is even more pronounced in Little Britain USA, an upcoming sketch comedy series adapted from Britain.
The result is striking images and impressive HD video that exhibits faithful color reproduction and tonal range throughout the frame.
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Mr. Argento writes his own librettos, and his predominantly tonal music makes text intelligibility paramount while maintaining its own distinctive profile.
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LG's exclusive Color Refiner delivers even greater tonal enhancement, resulting in images that are more vibrant and natural than anything seen before.
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Electric guitar collecting also focuses on an instrument's provenance (past ownership) whereas acoustic guitar collectors emphasize the importance of tonal quality and craftsmanship.
And the fact that there's no tonal variation actually means that you miss a lot of the meaning of the things that he says.
Melodies are based on limited, mostly chromatic, tonal scales, and the lyrics cover diverse themes ranging from love to current social issues and politics.
But here he sings with surpassing tonal beauty, his ringing high notes, effortless delivery and rich, masculine timbre evoking nothing so much as bright sunshine.
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The language is tonal, and fluency requires mastering thousands of characters.
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The display, powered by a mobile version of Sony's BRAVIA Engine, delivers a crisp level of detail that's complemented by a vibrancy of tonal colors.
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This was a professional photograph, with beautifully saturated colors, tonal balancing only a darkroom could achieve, and a composition that bore the mark of a master photographer.
Schoenberg, by contrast, sought to express his inmost feelings in a raw, unmediated way instead of using large-scale tonal architecture to shape them into conventionally coherent structures.
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The room is very tonal even the artwork is in shades of white, cream and brown with a white Christian Liaigre sofa and a Danish one in an earthy red leather.
Occasionally, a bird swivels so that its lighter-colored underbelly shows, lending tonal range to the work while also making sure the audience reads these as mynahs and not, say, crows.
The Creative IFP enables the satellites to deliver a wide acoustic sweet spot with a much improved sonic directivity to the listening area, giving music more focus while preserving tonal accuracy.
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With the saxophonists Gigi Gryce and Charlie Rouse, he formed a particularly interesting front line, with the tonal colours of the horns offering a range of pastel hues as well as the expected brilliance.
Dine alternates among charcoal, India ink, litho crayon and other drawing tools, often on the same pieces, giving a lesson in the possibilities of tonal variation using implements that must have been high tech before the Renaissance.
In many ways, he says, the album marks a tonal shift away from the intimate songs of 2004's Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, and instead reflects the mood of the song "Dog Faced Boy, " from Eels' 2001 album Souljacker.
Just as Kandinsky turned his back on figuration, so did the atonal composers of the early 20th century, led by Arnold Schoenberg, abandon tonal harmony, the fundamental ordering principle on which all Western classical music had previously been based.
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Pushing back the greens a bit, I made room in the lower part of the arrangement for hits of the saturated blue of fragrant hyacinth and the lighter blue of the smaller grape hyacinth to reflect the tonal shifts in color of the sky and water in this idyllic scene.
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