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Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

pplied, 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.

The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.

A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.

The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n.

h tone or proper vocal sound, as distinguished from mere breath sound; intonated; voiced; tonic; the opposite of nonvocal, or surd; -- sid of the vowels, semivowels, liquids, and nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal…

Of or pertaining to spasm; spasmodic; especially, pertaining to tonic spasm; tetanic.

l 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.

ng*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.

plied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular. F. A. March. Strong conjugation (Gram.), the conjug…

The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.

The sensible or leading note, or sharp seventh, of any key; subtonic.

Same as Subtonic.

lement 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.

Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex ketonic acid, C5H6O3, obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- so called because once supposed to contain a peculiar radical of four carbon atoms. Called also acetyl-acrylic acid.

A member of the Teutonic branch of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family.

A condition of tonicity with respect to temperature.