Dictionary - Toning: Holistic Health Therapy Dictionary On Toning
TONING: in sound healing, projection of a nonverbal sound to balance the body�s energy fields.   (See also: Toning , Alternati...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Toning: New Age Spiritual Dictionary On Toning
toning Use of the voice for healing, creativity and vitality   (See also: Toning , Body Mind and Soul)      » Read the article

Dictionary - Toning: Health And Healing Dictionary On Toning
TONING in sound healing, projection of a nonverbal sound to balance the body’s energy fields.   (See also: TONING , Alte...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Toning: Alternative Health Dictionary On Toning
Toning: Vocal method expounded and developed by American healer Laurel Elizabeth Keyes. It isa means of bringing new life energy to in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve-tone Technique: Encyclopedia - Twelve-tone Technique
Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. Music using the technique is ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vagina Tightening And Toning: Encyclopedia - Vagina Tightening And Toning
Vagina tightening and toning is a procedure intended to increase the elasticity and tightness of the vagina. It can be accomplished throu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dual-tone Multi-frequency: Encyclopedia - Dual-tone Multi-frequency
Dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF), also known as Touch Tone or Tone Dialing, is used for telephone signaling over the line in the voice fre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harmonic: Encyclopedia - Harmonic
In acoustics and telecommunication, the harmonic of a wave is a component frequency of the signal that is an integer multiple of the fund...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twi: Encyclopedia - Twi
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Civil Defense Siren: Encyclopedia - Civil Defense Siren
A civil defense siren, air raid siren, outdoor warning siren, or tornado siren is usually considered to be an electrically-powered mechan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clash Cymbals: Encyclopedia - Clash Cymbals
Clash cymbals are cymbals used in identical pairs and are played by holding one cymbal in each hand and striking the two together. Someti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoruba Language: Encyclopedia - Yoruba Language
 Atlantic-Congo   Volta-Congo     Benue-Congo     Defoid     &...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Toning: Wiccan Pagan Dictionary On Toning
TONING - use of the voice for healing, creativity and vitality. (NAD)   (See also: TONING , Wiccan Pagan, Paganism, Pagan Dict...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Toning: Alternative Health Dictionary Iii On Toning
Toning Vocalizing long, sustained sounds using a vowel, a consonant, or a combination of both without melody, words, beat or rhythm. T...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Toning: Holistic Health Dictionary I On Toning
TONING All of creation is energy, which vibrates according to varying frequencies. Our physical bodies are no exception, and which als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone Linguistics - Origin Of Tone
Tone is frequently an areal rather than a genetic feature: that is, a language may acquire tones through bilingualism if influential neig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone Name: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone Name - Chinese Tone Names
A Tone Name consists of Chinese tones derived from the traditional Middle Chinese tone classes, known as Ping Sheng (平聲), Shang Sheng...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ring Tone: Encyclopedia Ii - Ring Tone - Types Of Ring Tone
Ring tone - Monophonic. Early phones had the ability to play only monophonic ring tones, short tunes played with simple tones. These ea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone Linguistics - Register And Contour Tones
Tonal languages fall into two broad categories: Register tone systems and contour tone systems. Mandarin has a contour tone system, where...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone Linguistics - Tone As A Distinguishing Feature
Most languages use intonation (that is, pitch) to convey grammatical structure or emphasis (see phonology), but this does not make them t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Entering Tone: Encyclopedia Ii - Entering Tone - History
Although the entering has been widely known dated back to the time of Book of Songs, Zhou Dynasty (1027 - 771 BCE), the underlying phonet...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dial Tone: Encyclopedia Ii - Dial Tone - Soft Dial Tones
A "soft" dial tone is audibly the same as a regular one, except that there is no actual service active on the line, and normal calls cann...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Entering Tone: Encyclopedia Ii - Entering Tone - Entering Tone In Han Langauges
Entering tone - Cantonese. Cantonese language changed the voiced consonants to voiceless during evolution. The decrease in number of in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nonchord Tone: Encyclopedia Ii - Nonchord Tone - Suspension
Suspensions may be further described using the number of the interval forming the suspension and its resolution; e.g. 4-3 suspension, 7-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone Cluster: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone Cluster - History
While sporadic examples of tone clusters may be found at least as far back as 1700,[1] not before the second decade of the twentieth cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone River: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone River - Geography
The source of the river is Mount Ōminakami (大水上山), which straddles the border between Gunma and Niigata Prefectures. It gathers ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - G-tones: Encyclopedia Ii - G-tones - History
Excerpt from the G-Tones website: "God inspired Mark Henry and Derrick Mitchell to create the G-tones at Grinnell College. Their ultimate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone River: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone River - History
The river was once known for its uncontrollable nature, and its route was changed drastically whenever floods occur. It is hard to trace ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tantric Toning: Alternative Health Dictionary On Tantric Toning
Tantric Toning: A workout that balances the natural flow of one's energy and, is a means of getting in touch with one's tantra (innate...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Tantra Toning: Alternative Health Dictionary On Tantra Toning
Tantra toning: a means of raising and releasing energy in the body. Its theory posits chakras and a Vibrational healing power in the h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Sound Therapy, Toning: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Sound Therapy, Toning
Sound Therapy/Toning The use of a combination of tones and rhythmic sounds to alter a person's vibrations to bring harmony, accelerate...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franchot Tone: Encyclopedia Ii - Franchot Tone - Biography
He was born Stanislas Pascal Franchot Tone in Niagara Falls, New York, youngest son of Dr. Frank Jerome Tone, the president of the Carbor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nonchord Tone: Encyclopedia Ii - Nonchord Tone - Pedal Point
Another form of nonchord tone is a pedal point or pedal tone or note, almost always the tonic or dominant, which is held through a series...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pure Tone: Oceanography Dictionary - Pure Tone
  Definition and meaning of pure tone:   pure tone - a sound which consists of one single frequency (Source: US Natio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone Linguistics - Notational Systems
Due to the fact that tonal languages are found all over the world, several systems to mark tone have developed independently. In Asian an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone Scale: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone Scale - Details Of The Scale
The basic mechanism of the scale involves a person as they approach and react to Pain. As a person approaches pain, they become more anta...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Brush & Tone: Holistic Treatment Dictionary On Brush & Tone
Brush & Tone: Dry-brushing exfoliating of skin to remove its dead layers and impurities and stimulate circulation.   (See a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve-tone Technique: Encyclopedia Ii - Twelve-tone Technique - The Technique
The basis of twelve-tone technique is the tone row or set, an ordered arrangement of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale (the twelve ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone Linguistics - Tonal Languages And Music
Speakers of non-tonal languages (such as English) often perceive tonality in musical terms, based on notes, when in fact it is based on t...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Directed Esoteric Toning: Alternative Health Dictionary On Directed Esoteric Toning
Directed Esoteric Toning: Form of Toning whose principle is that a combination of (a)        ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Tones
The Pinyin system also incorporates suprasegmental phonemes to represent the four tones of Mandarin. Each tone is indicated by a diacriti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isan Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Isan Language - Tones
The following six tone pattern is typical: There are a further two, relatively rare tone marks: mai tri (อ๊) and mai chattawa (อ๋...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shanghainese Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Shanghainese Dialect - Tones
The Yang Shu tone is composed of Yang registers of the Ping, Shang and Qu tone characters. The Yin Ru and Yang Ru tones are abrupt tones,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Min Nan: Encyclopedia Ii - Min Nan - Tones
In general, Min Nan variants have seven to eight tones, and tone sandhi is extensive. See Taiwanese and Teochew dialect for examples of M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teochew Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Teochew Dialect - Tones
Teochew, like other Chinese languages is a tonal language. It has eight tones and extensive tone sandhi. Tones: Middle level Falling Low...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grey Manga: Encyclopedia Ii - Grey Manga - Tone
Grey is not a lighthearted adventure. The nickname of "Grey Death" is accurate, and the bad luck Grey seems to spread around makes his tr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penang Hokkien: Encyclopedia Ii - Penang Hokkien - Tones
The tones in Penang Hokkien are: 陰平 Yin-ping |44| 上聲 Shang-sheng |52| 陰去 Yin-qu |21| 陰入 Yin-ru |2| 陽平 Yang-ping |24|...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Rich-tone Chorus: Encyclopedia Ii - The Rich-tone Chorus - International Recognition
Internationally, the Rich-Tone Chorus aim to compete by displaying an innovative entertainment style that pushes the limits of barbershop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Twelve-tone Technique: Encyclopedia Ii - Twelve-tone Technique - History Of The Technique's Use
Founded by Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg around the late 1910s, the method was used during the next 20 years almost exclusively by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theobald Wolfe Tone: Encyclopedia Ii - Theobald Wolfe Tone - Society Of The United Irishmen
In October 1791 Tone converted these ideas into practical policy by founding, in conjunction with Thomas Russell (1767-1803), Napper Tand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Standard Romanization Cantonese: Encyclopedia Ii - Standard Romanization Cantonese - Tones
Tones are indicated using diacritic marks. Of the entering tones, only the middle entering tone is indicated, while the upper entering an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Penang Hokkien: Encyclopedia Ii - Penang Hokkien - Tone Sandhi
Like in other Minnan dialects, the tone of a syllable in Penang Hokkien depends on where in a phrase or sentence the relevant syllable is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Keyed Trumpet: Encyclopedia Ii - Keyed Trumpet - Tone Of The Keyed Trumpet
Due to its physical characteristics (bore, bell, historical mouthpiece) the Keyed Trumpet is closer in tone to the Natural Trumpet than t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vietnamese Alphabet: Encyclopedia Ii - Vietnamese Alphabet - Tone Markings
Vietnamese is a tonal language, i.e. the meaning of each word depends on the "tone" (basically a specific pitch and glottalization patter...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alex Lifeson: Encyclopedia Ii - Alex Lifeson - Tone And Equipment
In Rush's early career, Lifeson used a fairly standard rock rig: a Gibson ES-335 guitar, various phaser and flanger pedals, and a Marshal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roy Buchanan: Encyclopedia Ii - Roy Buchanan - Tone And Technique
Buchanan used a number of guitars throughout his career, although he was most often associated with a 1953 Telecaster guitar he named 'Na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tone Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Tone Linguistics - Tonal Languages
Languages that are tonal include: Some of the Sino-Tibetan languages, including the numerically most important ones. Most forms of Chine...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Equal Temperament: Encyclopedia Ii - Equal Temperament - Twelve-tone Equal Temperament
The ratio between two adjacent semitones can be found with a few steps: 1. Let an be the frequency of a tone n, with a12 an octave above...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Civil Defense Siren: Encyclopedia Ii - Civil Defense Siren - Current Warning Tones
Today, the most common tones sirens in the United States produce are "Alert," "Attack," and "Hi-Lo." While the tones used vary in some lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clash Cymbals: Encyclopedia Ii - Clash Cymbals - Weights Tones And Sizes
In the orchestra, clash cymbals are normally matched pairs of crash cymbals. They are commonly found in three weights: Francese, French,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clash Cymbals: Encyclopedia Ii - Clash Cymbals - Weights, Tones And Sizes
In the orchestra, clash cymbals are normally matched pairs of crash cymbals. They are commonly found in three weights: Francese, French,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lyric Suite Berg: Encyclopedia Ii - Lyric Suite Berg - Tone Rows
Lyric Suite Berg - Movement I. according to George Perle, pitch classes. He also depicts it in the following way: Lyric Suite Berg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - David Sancious: Encyclopedia Ii - David Sancious - David Sancious & Tone
In August 1974 Sancious and Carter left the E Street Band and formed their own band Tone with Gerald Carboy (bass). At various times the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - M*a*s*h Tv Series: Encyclopedia Ii - M*a*s*h Tv Series - Change In Tone
As the series progressed, it made a significant shift from pure comedy to become far more dramatically focused. In addition, the episodes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metal Gear Series: Encyclopedia Ii - Metal Gear Series - Tone And Themes
Although the series has a war setting and is of the action genre, and thus contains large amounts of (occasionally graphic) violence, it ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homosexuality And Scientology: Encyclopedia Ii - Homosexuality And Scientology - Homosexuals 1.1 On Scientology's Tone Scale
In 1951 he published Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior. In the book Hubbard created the Tone scale which classifies indiv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Láadan: Encyclopedia Ii - Láadan - Phonology
Láadan - Tones. Unusually for constructed languages, Láadan is a tonal language. It utilises four distinct tones: lo — /lō/ or /l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Equal Temperament: Encyclopedia Ii - Equal Temperament - Non-12 Tet
Five and seven tone equal temperament, with 240 and 171 cent steps relatively, seem the most common outside of 12-tET. A Thai xylophone m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hmong Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Hmong Language - Orthography
The glottal stop is not indicated in the orthography. The few truly vowel-initial words are indicated by an apostrophe. The mid tone is n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Equal Temperament: Encyclopedia Ii - Equal Temperament - Explanation
The distance between each step and the next is aurally the same for any two adjacent steps; though, because steps form a geometric sequen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hadza Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Hadza Language - Sounds
Hadza language - Tone. It is not known if Hadza has lexical tone. It may have a pitch accent system, but the details have not been work...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Equal Temperament: Encyclopedia Ii - Equal Temperament - History
Vincenzo Galilei (father of Galileo Galilei) may have been the first person to advocate equal temperament (in a 1581 treatise). The first...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shanghainese Dialect: Encyclopedia Ii - Shanghainese Dialect - Fudan Romanization
(Vottay Da`oc复旦大学) Initials Rimes Glottal Stop “c” can be replaced by double writing the following consonantal letter except ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dong Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dong Language - Phonology And Orthography
Dong language - Initials. Dong has 32 syllable-initial consonants; seven of them (ʧ-, ʧʰ-, ʃ-, ɻ-, f-, ʦ- and ʦʰ-) only occur i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rotary Dial: Encyclopedia Ii - Rotary Dial - Tapping
You can trick a phone system into thinking you are using a rotary dial. To do this, find the little button, switch, or hook that is pushe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maqam: Encyclopedia Ii - Maqam - Passages
Maqam performance features a series characteristic pauses which separate and distinguish melodic passages within which, "the tonal-spatia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tai Nüa Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tai Nüa Language - Writing System
Tai Nüa has its own alphabet, which is closely related to other Southeast-Asian writing systems such as the Thai alphabet and is thought...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - !xóõ Language: Encyclopedia Ii - !xóõ Language - Phonemes
!Xóõ language - Tones. There are 4 tones: high [á], mid [ā], low [à], and mid-falling [â]. !Xóõ language - Vowels. There are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maqam: Encyclopedia Ii - Maqam - Emotional Content
Each maqam evokes a specific emotion or set of emotions determined by the tone row and the nucleus, with different maqams sharing the sam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dene Suline Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dene Suline Language - Sounds
Dene Suline language - Consonants. The 39 consonants of Dene Suline: Dene Suline language - Vowels. Dene Suline has vowels of 6 diff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoruba Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoruba Language - Writing System
Yoruba orthography originated in the early work of CMS missionaries working among the Aku in Freetown, notably Kilham and Raban. They ass...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hakka Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Hakka Linguistics - Hakka Phonology
Hakka linguistics - Moiyen dialect initials. There are no voiced plosives ([b d g]) in Hakka, but it exhibits two sets of voiceless, on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jyutping: Encyclopedia Ii - Jyutping - Compare With Yale Romanization
Jyutping and the Yale romanization system represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in: The initials: b, p, m, f, d, t, n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Yoruba Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Yoruba Language - Phonology
The three possible syllable structures of Yoruba are consonant+vowel (CV), vowel alone (V), and syllabic nasal (N). Every syllable bears ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jyutping: Encyclopedia Ii - Jyutping - Compare With Standard Cantonese Pinyin
Jyutping and the Standard Cantonese Pinyin represent Cantonese pronunciations with the same letters in: The initials: b, p, m, f, d, t, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Telephone Call: Encyclopedia Ii - Telephone Call - Information Transmission
A telephone call may consist of an ordinary voice transmission using a telephone, a data transmission when the calling party and called p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playing The Violin: Encyclopedia Ii - Playing The Violin - Mute
Attaching a small metal or rubber device called a "mute" to the bridge of the violin alters the tone by adding mass to the bridge and so ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iu Mien Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Iu Mien Language - Alphabet
In the past, lack of an alphabet has caused low rates of literacy amongst the Iu Mien speakers. It has been written with Chinese characte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Orthographic Features
Pinyin differs from other romanizations in several aspects, such as: w is placed before syllables starting with u. y is placed before sy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Rules Given In Terms Of English Pronunciation
All rules given here in terms of English pronunciation are approximate. Pinyin - Pronunciation of initials. Pinyin - Pronunciation of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Pinyin In Taiwan
The Republic of China on Taiwan adopted Tongyong Pinyin, a modified version of Hanyu Pinyin, on the national level in October 2002. The a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Other Languages
Pinyin-like systems have been devised for other variants of Chinese. Guangdong Romanization is a set of romanizations devised by the gove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Rules Given In Terms Of English Pronunciation
All rules given here in terms of English pronunciation are approximate. Pinyin - Pronunciation of initials. Pinyin - Pronunciation of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Other Languages
Pinyin-like systems have been devised for other variants of Chinese. Guangdong Romanization is a set of romanizations devised by the gove...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kokborok Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Kokborok Language - Kokborok Sounds And Phonetics
Kokborok is a Tibeto-Burmese language and is closely related to the Boro language.It is a typical Tibeto-Burmese language and consists of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taiwanese Linguistics: Encyclopedia Ii - Taiwanese Linguistics - Phonetics
Phonetically, Taiwanese is a tonal language with extensive tone sandhi rules. Syllables consist maximally of an initial consonant, a vowe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thai Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Thai Language - Phonology
Thai language - Tones. There are five phonemic tones: middle, low, high, rising and falling. They are indicated in the written script b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Serialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Serialism - History Of Serial Music
The serialization of rhythm, dynamics etc developed after the Second World War by arguing that the twelve-tone music of Arnold Schoenberg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tai Nüa Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Tai Nüa Language - Phonology
Tai Nüa is a tonal language with a very limited inventory of syllables with no consonant clusters. 16 syllable-initial consonants can be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pinyin: Encyclopedia Ii - Pinyin - Miscellanea
An umlaut is placed over the letter u when it occurs after the initials l and n in order to represent the sound [y]. This is necessary in...   » Read the article