# Tonal system

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**Tonal system** can refer to

- [Arab tone system](/source/Arab_tone_system), the modern Arabic system of musical tuning
- [Chromatic scale](/source/Chromatic_scale) or twelve-tone scale, a set of twelve pitches used in tonal music
- [Tone (linguistics)](/source/Tone_(linguistics)), the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
- [Tonality](/source/Tonality), the arrangement of pitches and / or chords of a musical work
- [Tonal system (Nystrom)](/source/Tonal_system_(Nystrom)) a base 16 system of notation, arithmetic, and metrology proposed in 1859 by John W. Nystrom

## See also

- [Equal temperament](/source/Equal_temperament)
- [Signal tone](/source/Signal_tone)
- [Tonal (disambiguation)](/source/Tonal_(disambiguation))
- [Tone (disambiguation)](/source/Tone_(disambiguation))
- [Tone mapping](/source/Tone_mapping)

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