Tonal may refer to: *

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 last ...

, a concept in the belief systems and traditions of Mesoamerican cultures, involving a spiritual link between a person and an animal *

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 emph ...

, a type of language in which pitch is used to make phonemic distinctions *

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 ca ...

, a system of writing music involving the relationship of pitch to some centered key *

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, Measur ...

, 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 ''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 Nee ...

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