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Recent Examples of tonal
Take Kule’s for example—the red stripes would look so chic poking out from beneath a tonal knit or ladylike jacket.
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Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
Plot and character details are being kept in the hard drive, but the project is described as a paranoid thriller that has tonal influences of Silence of the Lambs and involves the hunt for a cyber terrorist.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
The film’s tonal shift, however, caught me off guard.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
The violin solo with which the piece began danced nimbly between low and high notes, an example of superb playing with a complex rhythm that wound its way through tight tonal intervals.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2024
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Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2024
Plot and character details are being kept in the hard drive, but the project is described as a paranoid thriller that has tonal influences of Silence of the Lambs and involves the hunt for a cyber terrorist.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2024
The film’s tonal shift, however, caught me off guard.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
The violin solo with which the piece began danced nimbly between low and high notes, an example of superb playing with a complex rhythm that wound its way through tight tonal intervals.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tonal
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There is, however, a harmonic tension at the heart of the conception, as semitone dissonances pierce the texture in almost every bar—F against E, D-sharp against E, C against B. As one of these twinges is resolved, another intrudes.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Concert tremor consists of low-frequency signals of extended duration with harmonic frequency peaks between 1 and 10 Hz, similar to the signals generated by volcanoes or trains.Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 Mar. 2024
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An immersive orchestral experience befitting the whole family, spend this holiday evening with the spectacular sound of strings singing spooky Christmas carols.Mars Salazar, Austin American-Statesman, 6 Dec. 2024
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Side One, Track One songs like this off the new Father John Misty album, just an absolute epic of orchestral beauty.Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
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The driving force of the track is the rhythmic energy that infuses both its lyrics and beats, mixing percussion with horns in a way that feels at once classic and contemporary.Walaa Elsiddig, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2024
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New patterns, inspired by Minassian’s own work, include large-scale rhythmic motifs that reflect his belief in creating versatile, impactful pieces suitable for any space.Sofia Celeste, WWD, 21 Nov. 2024
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The Italian Jewish composer Salamone Rossi set Psalm 112 in Hebrew, in mainly chordal antiphony.Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2020
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Maybe that explains why their playing in the Eighth Symphony sang out with such fullness and breadth, and why chordal passages had such strong hints of a church choir.New York Times, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
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Every character in this story gets their own voice — the novel’s polyphonic structure comprises 21 first-person chapters, a daisy chain of regret, anger, humor and self-loathing.Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
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At the heart of the exhibition is the collective creation of new vocal datasets—polyphonic AI models designed to handle and generate multiple distinct elements simultaneously.Nargess Banks, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
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Now his Pulitzer winner, Nickel Boys, has been turned into an equally uncompromising yet at times surprisingly lyrical film directed by RaMell Ross.Tom Gliatto, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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But man, One Hundred Years of Solitude is breathlessly beautiful at times, lyrical and alive and brimming with visual and intellectual ideas.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Tonal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tonal. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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