Tone

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Tone may refer to:

Color-related

• Tone (color theory), a mix of tint and shade, in painting and color theory
• Tone (color), the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a color
• Toning (coin), color change in coins
• Photographic print toning, a process that changes the color of monochromatic film, e.g. sepia tone

Sound and music

• Tone (linguistics), the pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages
• Tone (musical instrument), the audible characteristics of a musician's sound
• Musical tone, a sound characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity, and timbre
• Pure tone, a tone with a sinusoidal waveform
• Reciting tone, such as Psalm tone and recitative, as in Gregorian chants
• Tonality, a system of music based on a key "center", or tonic
• Tone control, a (typically electronic) control for affecting frequency content of an audio signal
• Whole tone, or major second, a commonly occurring musical interval

Musical genres, groups, people and works

• Tone (DC band), a DC instrumental band formed in 1991
• Tone (jazz-fusion band), active 1974–1981
• Tone (Jeff Ament album), a 2008 album by Jeff Ament
• Tone (TVXQ album), a 2011 album by Tohoshinki
• 2 Tone (music genre) or Two Tone, style of music combining elements of ska and punk
• Kentaro Tone, Japanese voice actor
• Tones (album), a 1986 album by Eric Johnson
• Yasunao Tone, Japanese-American experimental composer with Hi-Red Center, Fluxus, etc.
• Tones and I, Australian pop singer

Places

• Tone, Gunma, Japan
• Tone, Ibaraki, Japan
• Tone, Somerset, England
• Tone River (disambiguation)

Physiology

• Muscle tone, the state of tension or responsiveness of the organs or tissues of the body
• Toning exercises, the use of exercise to develop hard, but not necessarily large, musculature tone

Other uses

• Tone (literature), a literary technique which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work that is compatible with the other drive
• Tone (magazine), a New Zealand technology magazine
• Tone (name)
• Japanese ship Tone (pronounced "Toh-Neh"), three warships of Japan
• Tone policing, focusing on the emotion of a message rather than its content
• Tone's Spices, a brand owned by Associated British Foods
• Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling, a telecommunication signaling system, also known as "Touch-Tone"

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Tone
• All pages with titles containing Tone
• Toine
• Ton (disambiguation)
• Tona (name)
• Tonal (disambiguation)
• Tonic (disambiguation)
• Toney (disambiguation)
• Tonie
• Tune (disambiguation)

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