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  2. BBC Bitesize - Wikipedia

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    BBC Bitesize, [1] also abbreviated to Bitesize, is the BBC's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom. It is designed to aid pupils in both schoolwork and, for older pupils, exams .

  3. Tone - Wikipedia

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    Tone (linguistics), the pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages; Tone (musical instrument), the audible characteristics of a musician's sound; Musical tone, a sound characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity, and timbre; Pure tone, a tone with a sinusoidal waveform; Reciting tone, such as Psalm tone and recitative, as in ...

  4. Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. [1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously ...

  5. Tone (literature) - Wikipedia

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    The mood of a piece of literature is the feeling or atmosphere created by the work, or, said slightly differently, how the work makes the reader feel. Mood is produced most effectively through the use of setting, theme, voice and tone, while tone is how the author feels about something.

  6. Tint, shade and tone - Wikipedia

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    A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. [1] Mixing a color with any neutral color (including black, gray, and white) reduces the chroma , or colorfulness , while the hue (the relative mixture of red, green, blue, etc., depending on the colorspace) remains unchanged.

  7. Shepard tone - Wikipedia

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    The theory behind the illusion was demonstrated during an episode of the BBC's show Bang Goes the Theory, where the effect was described as "a musical barber's pole". [2] The scale as described, with discrete steps between each tone, is known as the discrete Shepard scale.

  8. Human voice - Wikipedia

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    The twelve-tone musical scale, upon which a large portion of all music (western popular music in particular) is based, may have its roots in the sound of the human voice during the course of evolution, according to a study published by the New Scientist. Analysis of recorded speech samples found peaks in acoustic energy that mirrored the ...

  9. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    Also calmato meaning calmed, relaxed calore Warmth; so con calore, warmly cambiare To change (i.e. any change, such as to a new instrument) cambiata An ornamental tone following a principal tone by a skip up or down, usually of a third, and proceeding in the opposite direction by a step, not to be confused with changing tone. canon or kanon (Ger.)