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It is typically used to describe a combination of two different tones, often used in music or poetry. For example, "The singer's tonal combination of low resonance and a bright treble created a unique and captivating sound."
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Yet the movie is successful — harsh, serious, and both exhilarating and tragic, the right tonal combination for Homer.
Others that fan outward in clattery Op Art black-white contrasts have more bark and bite, including one where this tonal combination softens to a visionary buzz.
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White Out, an improvisatory duo, teams up with 40percentt of Sonic Youth for two performances that should be full of odd tonal combinations and arresting textures -- noise, more or less.
Monochromatic schemes are similar tonal combinations that use several shades of a single color for a subtle scheme.
The violinist Philip Setzer played with an ideal combination of tonal warmth and rueful resignation, and his line was amply supported by Eugene Drucker's undulating obbligato in the second violin.
Tonal sandhi operates in many combinations.
His harmonic language behaves like tonal music, even if the combinations of notes rarely conform to it.
We propose that holistic pitch perception of tonal sounds involves a place-gated combination of neural timing information from the envelope and fine-structure of a sound relayed via the midbrain and brainstem; the lowest region of the tonotopic map in which envelope and fine-structural components have similar timing patterns dynamically assumes a dominant role in pitch processing.
The earlier music is harmonically more intricate, almost Bergian in its combination of heavy chromaticisms and tonal references, with taxing piano writing that Drake projected powerfully.
There are no errors in the entry for ABBA, but something is hilariously wrong with it: ABBA's "prominent characteristics are sensuous combinations of diatonic melody and tonal harmony, often involving harmonic motion alternating between two or three chords".
This 17th century template also explains the series' bold tonal shifts between heartbreak and dark farce, a combination which – despite drawing weekly audiences of more than 7.5 million and creating a Wednesday night ratings powerhouse for BBC1 with The Great British Bake-Off – has bemused some critics and channel-clickers.
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