…(1763–98), Irish nationalist; full name Theobald Wolfe Tone. In 1794 he induced a French invasion of Ireland to overthrow English rule, which failed. Tone was captured by the British during the Irish insurrection in 1798 and committed suicide in prison…
…feedback in a telephone receiver, in particular the reproduction of the user’s own voice…
…a piece of orchestral music, typically in one movement, on a descriptive or rhapsodic theme…
…a particular sequence of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale used as a basis for twelve-tone (serial) music…
…(of a fabric or design) dyed with or using different shades of the same color…
…a group of words forming a distinctive unit in an utterance, containing a nucleus and optionally one or more other syllables before and after the nucleus…
…(of a telephone) having push buttons and generating tones to dial rather than pulses…
…denoting a system of musical composition using the twelve chromatic notes of the octave on an equal basis without dependence on a key system. Developed by Arnold Schoenberg, the technique is central to serialism and involves the transposition and inversion of a fixed sequence of pitches…
…a dial tone interrupted by several short gaps, indicating the arrival of new voicemail messages to the user…
…a method of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as a different tone…
…the tone that represents the fundamental frequency of a vibrating object such as a string or bell…
…a halftone illustration made from a single original with two different colors at different screen angles…
…a reproduction of a photograph or other image in which the various tones of gray or color are produced by variously sized dots of ink…
…the smallest interval used in classical Western music, equal to a twelfth of an octave or half a tone; a half step…
…the lowest or fundamental note of a harmonic series in some brass and wind instruments…
…a basic interval in classical Western music, equal to two semitones and separating, for example, the first and second notes of an ordinary scale (such as C and D, or E and F sharp); a major second or whole step…
…(of a telephone) having push buttons and generating tones to dial rather than pulses…
…a note not belonging to the harmony but interposed to secure a smooth transition from one chord to another…
…the normal level of firmness or slight contraction in a resting muscle…
…a note not belonging to the harmony but interposed to secure a smooth transition from one chord to another…
…(1763–98), Irish nationalist; full name Theobald Wolfe Tone. In 1794 he induced a French invasion of Ireland to overthrow English rule, which failed. Tone was captured by the British during the Irish insurrection in 1798 and committed suicide in prison…
