Definition of atonic

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Atonic (a.) Destitute of tone vocality; surd.

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Sixth :: Sixth (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Platonic :: Platonic (n.) A follower of Plato; a Platonist.
Surd :: Surd (a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180..
Stich :: Sticcado (n.) An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks..
Plotinist :: Plotinist (n.) A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death..
Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Destitute of tone vocality; surd.
Platonical :: Platonical (a.) Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical..
Change :: Change (v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale..
Scale :: Scale (n.) The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor..
Fa :: Fa (n.) A syllable applied to the fourth tone of the diatonic scale in solmization.
Fourth :: Fourth (n.) The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key..
Neoplatonician :: Neoplatonician (n.) A neoplatonist.
E :: E () E is the third tone of the model diatonic scale. E/ (E flat) is a tone which is intermediate between D and E.
Carillon :: Carillon (n.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys..
H :: H () The seventh degree in the diatonic scale, being used by the Germans for B natural. See B..
Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
Diatonic :: Diatonic (a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first..
Diatonically :: Diatonically (adv.) In a diatonic manner.
Atonic :: Atonic (n.) A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.
Peal :: Peal (n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells..
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