TONING: in sound healing, projection of a nonverbal sound to balance the body�s energy fields.

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toning

Use of the voice for healing, creativity and vitality

(See also: Toning, Body Mind and Soul)

TONING

in sound healing, projection of a nonverbal sound to balance the body’s energy fields.

(See also: TONING, Alternative Health, Healing, Body Mind and Soul)

Toning: Vocal method expounded and developed by American healer Laurel Elizabeth Keyes. It isa means of bringing new life energy to inhibited or unbalanced parts of the body. Toning involves standing with eyes closed, relaxing the jaws, and expressing feelings with vocal sounds.

(See also: Toning, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. Music using the technique is called twelve-tone music. Josef Matthias Hauer also developed a similar system using unordered hexachords, or tropes, at the exact same time and country but with no connection to Schoenberg. Other composers have created systematic use of the chromatic scale, but it is Schoenberg's method which is historically ...

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• Twelve-tone technique - The technique
• Twelve-tone technique - History of the technique's use
• Twelve-tone technique - Derivation
• Twelve-tone technique - Other
• Twelve-tone technique - Sources

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Vagina tightening and toning is a procedure intended to increase the elasticity and tightness of the vagina. It can be accomplished through Kegel exercises, or in certain cases, laser surgery. This procedure is often performed on women who have given birth and are experiencing urinary incontinence. Women who desire to have this procedure may also be self-conscious about their vagina's size, especially its effect on sexual performance. Others simply want to maintain a ...

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• Vagina tightening and toning - See Also
• Vagina tightening and toning - Furthur Reading

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Dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF), also known as Touch Tone or Tone Dialing, is used for telephone signaling over the line in the voice frequency band to the call switching center. DTMF is an example of a multifrequency shift keying (MFSK) system. Today DTMF is used for most call setup to the telephone exchange, at least in the Western world, and trunk signalling is now done out of band using the SS7 signaling system. The trunk signalling tones were different from the tones known as touch tone with a triangular matrix being used rather than a squar ...

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In acoustics and telecommunication, the harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the signal that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency. For a sine wave, it is an integer multiple of the frequency of the wave. For example, if the frequency is f, the harmonics have frequency 2f, 3f, 4f, etc. In musical terms, harmonics are component pitches of a harmonic tone which sound at whole number multiples above, or "within", the named note being played on a musical instrument. Non-integer mu ...

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Twi (pronounced 'chwee' [tɕʷi]) is a language spoken in Ghana by about 7 million people. It is a dialect of the Akan language, which in turn belongs to the Kwa language family. There are many divisions of the Twi languages, but they are all mutually intelligible. Twi - Phonology. Twi - Consonants. Before front vowels, all consonants are palatalized and plosives are affricated to some extent. The allophones of /n/ are ...

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• Twi - Phonology
• Twi - Consonants
• Twi - Vowels
• Twi - Tones
• Twi - Bibilography

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A civil defense siren, air raid siren, outdoor warning siren, or tornado siren is usually considered to be an electrically-powered mechanical device for generating sound to provide warning of approaching danger and to indicate when the danger has passed. Initially designed to warn of air raids, they were adapted to warn of nuclear attack and of natural phenomena such as tornadoes. The generalized nature of the siren led to them being largely replaced with more con ...

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• Civil defense siren - Historical Warning Tones
• Civil defense siren - Current Warning Tones
• Civil defense siren - Other Emergencies
• Civil defense siren - Sirens in Integrated Public Warning Systems
• Civil defense siren - Links

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Clash cymbals are cymbals used in identical pairs and are played by holding one cymbal in each hand and striking the two together. Sometimes they are called crash cymbals; See the article crash cymbal for the more usual use of this term. Clash cymbals - Terminology. The technical term clash cymbal is rarely used. In musical scores, clash cymbals are normally indicated merely as cymbals. If another type of cymbal, for example a suspended cymbal, is required in an orchestral ...

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• Clash cymbals - Terminology
• Clash cymbals - Technique
• Clash cymbals - Weights tones and sizes
• Clash cymbals - Straps and alternatives

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 Atlantic-Congo   Volta-Congo     Benue-Congo     Defoid      Yoruboid       Edekiri        Yorùbá  Yoruba (native name Yorúbà) is a dialect continuum of sub-Saharan Africa. The native tongue of the Yoruba people, it is spoken, among other languages, in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo and traces of it are found among communities in Br ...

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• Yoruba language - History
• Yoruba language - Dialects
• Yoruba language - Standard Yoruba
• Yoruba language - Phonology
• Yoruba language - Vowels
• Yoruba language - Consonants
• Yoruba language - Tone
• Yoruba language - Assimilation and elision
• Yoruba language - Grammar
• Yoruba language - Writing system
• Yoruba language - Tone markings
• Yoruba language - Notes and references
• Yoruba language - Notes
• Yoruba language - References

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TONING - use of the voice for healing, creativity and vitality. (NAD)

(See also: TONING, Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

Toning

Vocalizing long, sustained sounds using a vowel, a consonant, or a combination of both without melody, words, beat or rhythm. Toning, an ancient method for pain relief and for treating illness, is one of the oldest forms of healing: also known as sounding, toning is the simplest form of singing. Toning produces vibrations with overtones, or 'vocal harmonics,' which help restore harmony of body, mind and spirit.

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TONING

All of creation is energy, which vibrates according to varying frequencies. Our physical bodies are no exception, and which also responds to the appropriate sounds that can help you to regain balance, good health and emotional stability.

The ancients knew of this and we can see from the chanting of Sama Veda from India, the Tibetan Chants, Gregorian Chants, and many more instances of the healing virtues of sound. Toning by musical instruments, such as the drum, as is used by the Native Americans and Africans, exemplifies the tradition and value of music and /or individualized musical notes.

The human voice has a tremendous range and capability as illustrated by the “Overtones” of the Tibetan monks. The appropriate tone allows the mind, body and spirit to harmonize and be in balance.

See also: Vibrational Healing, Healing Sound, Healing Music)

Tone is frequently an areal rather than a genetic feature: that is, a language may acquire tones through bilingualism if influential neighboring languages are tonal, or if speakers of a tonal language switch to the language in question. For example it is generally accepted that tone spread to the Chinese languages through the influence of another language family, most likely Miao-Yao. In other cases tone may arise spontaneously, and surprisingly quickly: The dialect of Cherokee in Oklahoma has tone, but the dialect in North Carolina d ...

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Tone linguistics, Tone linguistics - Tonal languages, Tone linguistics - Origin of tone, Tone linguistics - Tone as a distinguishing feature, Tone linguistics - Register and contour tones, Tone linguistics - Notational systems, Tone linguistics - Africa, Tone linguistics - Asia, Tone linguistics - The Americas, Tone linguistics - Europe, Tone linguistics - Tonal languages and music, Tone linguistics - Bibliography

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A Tone Name consists of Chinese tones derived from the traditional Middle Chinese tone classes, known as Ping Sheng (平聲), Shang Sheng (上聲), Qu Sheng (去聲), and Ru Sheng (入聲), which in English in the linguistic literature, are sometimes called the level, rising, departing and entering tones. The Ru sheng syllables derive from syllables in Middle Chinese which end in -p, -t or -k. Originally, each of the names Ping, Shang, Qu, and Ru is itself spoken in the tone it identifies. However, i ...

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Tone name, Tone name - Chinese tone names, Tone name - Vietnamese tone names

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Ring tone - Monophonic. Early phones had the ability to play only monophonic ring tones, short tunes played with simple tones. These early phones also had the ability to have ring tones programmed into them using an internal ring tone composer. Various formats were developed to enable ring tones to be sent via SMS text, for example RTTTL encoding. Ring tone - Polyphonic. Polyphonic means that multiple notes can be played at the same time using instrument sounds such as guitar, ...

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Ring tone, Ring tone - Types of ring tone, Ring tone - Monophonic, Ring tone - Polyphonic, Ring tone - Music ring tones, Ring tone - Popularity

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Tonal languages fall into two broad categories: Register tone systems and contour tone systems. Mandarin has a contour tone system, where the distinguishing feature of the tones are their shifts in pitch (their pitch shapes or contours, such as rising, falling, dipping, or peaking) rather than simply their pitch relative to each other as in a register tone system. Register tone systems are found in Bantu languages and throughout Africa. In some register tone systems, there is a default tone, usually low in a two-tone system or mid in a three ...

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Tone linguistics, Tone linguistics - Tonal languages, Tone linguistics - Origin of tone, Tone linguistics - Tone as a distinguishing feature, Tone linguistics - Register and contour tones, Tone linguistics - Notational systems, Tone linguistics - Africa, Tone linguistics - Asia, Tone linguistics - The Americas, Tone linguistics - Europe, Tone linguistics - Tonal languages and music, Tone linguistics - Bibliography

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Most languages use intonation (that is, pitch) to convey grammatical structure or emphasis (see phonology), but this does not make them tonal languages in this sense. In these cases, tones can change how the audience is intended to interpret a word (e.g. sarcastically), but in tonal languages, the tone is an integral part of a word itself. Thus minimal pairs can exist in such a language, distinguished only by a change of tone. To illustrate how tone can affect meaning, let us look at the following example from Mandarin, which has five ...

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Tone linguistics, Tone linguistics - Tonal languages, Tone linguistics - Origin of tone, Tone linguistics - Tone as a distinguishing feature, Tone linguistics - Register and contour tones, Tone linguistics - Notational systems, Tone linguistics - Africa, Tone linguistics - Asia, Tone linguistics - The Americas, Tone linguistics - Europe, Tone linguistics - Tonal languages and music, Tone linguistics - Bibliography

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