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Tone :: Tone (n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone..

Platonical :: Platonical (a.) Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical..

Atonic :: Atonic (n.) An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing..

Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.

Semitone :: Semitone (n.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

Platonically :: Platonically (adv.) In a Platonic manner.

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..

Fifth :: Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key..

Platonical :: Platonical (a.) Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions..

Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable..

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

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..

Change :: Change (v. t.) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale..

Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease..

Neoplatonism :: Neoplatonism (n.) A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy..

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..

Si :: Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century..

Sol :: Sol (n.) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale..

Seventh :: Seventh (n.) An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

Re :: Re () A syllable applied in solmization to the second tone of the diatonic scale of C; in the American system, to the second tone of any diatonic scale..

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