Tonal (other)
Tonal may refer to: * Tonal (mythology), a concept in the belief systems and traditions of Mesoamerican cultures, involving a spiritual link between a person and an animal * Tonal language, a type of language in which pitch is used to make phonemic distinctions * Tonality, a system of writing music involving the relationship of pitch to some centered key * Tonal system, a hexadecimal (base 16) system of notation, arithmetic, and metrology proposed by Nystrom in 1859 * "Tonal", a song by the American band Bright from the album '' The Albatross Guest House'' See also *Tone (other) 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 colour * Toning (coin), colour change in coins * Photographic ...

Tonal (mythology)
Tonal is a concept within the study of Mesoamerican religion, myth, folklore and anthropology. It is a belief found in many indigenous Mesoamerican cultures that a person upon being born acquires a close spiritual link to an animal, a link that lasts throughout the lives of both creatures. The person shows signs of whatever the animal's situation to include scratches and bruises if the animals get in fights, or illness if the animal is ill. It is in this way similar to the concept of Totem. Etymology The word comes from the Nahuatl word ''tonalli'', meaning "day" or "daysign". In the Aztec belief system the day of a person's birth calculated in the Tonalpohualli would determine the nature of the person – each day was associated with an animal which could have a strong or weak aspect. The person born on the day of for example "the dog" would then have the strong or weak aspect of the dog. In Nahuatl the word Tonalli was used to refer both to a day and to the animal related to tha ...
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Tonal Language
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels. Languages that have this feature are called tonal languages; the distinctive tone patterns of such a language are sometimes called tonemes, by analogy with ''phoneme''. Tonal languages are common in East and Southeast Asia, Africa, the Americas and the Pacific. Tonal languages are different from pitch-accent languages in that tonal languages can have each syllable with an independent tone whilst pitch-accent languages may have one syllable in a word or morpheme that is more prominent than the others. Mechanics Most languages use pitch as intonation to convey ...
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Tonality
Tonality is the arrangement of pitches and/or chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived relations, stabilities, attractions and directionality. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or triadic chord with the greatest stability is called the tonic. The root of the tonic chord forms the name given to the key, so in the key of C major, the note C is both the tonic of the scale and the root of the tonic chord (which is C–E–G). Simple folk music songs often start and end with the tonic note. The most common use of the term "is to designate the arrangement of musical phenomena around a referential tonic in European music from about 1600 to about 1910". Contemporary classical music from 1910 to the 2000s may practice or avoid any sort of tonality—but harmony in almost all Western popular music remains tonal. Harmony in jazz includes many but not all tonal characteristics of the European common practice period, usually known as "classical music". "All harmonic idioms in ...
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Tonal System
The tonal system is a base 16 system of notation (predating the widespread use of hexadecimal in computing), arithmetic, and metrology proposed in 1859 by John W. Nystrom.Nystrom, John W.''Project of a New System of Arithmetic, Weight, Measure and Coins, Proposed to be Called the Tonal System, with Sixteen to the Base''/ref> In addition to new weights and measures, his proposal included a new calendar with sixteen months, a new system of coinage, and a clock with sixteen major divisions of the day (called tims). Nystrom advocated his system thus: Names for the numbers He proposed names for the digits, calling zero "noll" and counting (from one to sixteen): "An,  de,  ti,  go,  su,  by,  ra,  me,  ni,  ko,  hu,  vy,  la,  po,  fy,  ton." (Therefore, ''ton''al system.) Because hexadecimal requires sixteen digits, Nystrom supplemented the existing decimal digits 0 through 9 with his own invented characters ...
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The Albatross Guest House
''The Albatross Guest House'' is the second studio album by Bright. It came out as a split release CD on Darla Records (catalog #DRL-044) and Ba-Da-Bing! Records (catalog #BING-010) in 1997. Track listing All songs written by Bright #"You Need Some Sleep" – 1:39 #"Tonal" – 3:25 #"Titan" – 3:09 #"On Life After Death" – 3:50 #"The Glowing Pickpocket" – 2:18 #"Forever More or Less" – 3:37 #"Quaker" – 1:17 #"Takoma" – 2:21 #"Teo" – 3:14 #"I've Stopped Breathing" – 3:24 #"O!" – 1:08 #"Last Great Patron" – 4:11 #"Transmissions" – 2:35 #"Stringing up Lights" – 1:18 #"Language of the House" – 4:12 #"From Tree to Tree" – 1:39 #"Seventy-Four" – 1:19 #"Somewhere Away from the City" – 3:17 #"Albatross" – 4:34 #"Attractor" – 5:18 Personnel ;Bright *Mark Dwinell — Guitar, vocals, keyboard, clarinet, bass guitar ("Forever More or Less") *Joe LaBrecque — Drums ;Additional musicians *Paul LaBrecque — Bugle *Ian Adams — Guitar :note: LaBrecque, old ...
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