Tonal may refer to: *

Tonal (mythology) Tonal is a concept within the study of Mesoamerican religion, cosmology, folklore and anthropology. It is a belief found in many indigenous Mesoamerican cultures that a person upon being born acquires a close spiritual link to an animal, a link tha ...

, a concept in the belief systems and traditions of Mesoamerican cultures, involving a spiritual link between a person and an animal *

Tonal language Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasi ...

, a type of language in which pitch is used to make phonemic distinctions *

Tonality Tonality is the arrangement of pitch (music), pitches and / or chord (music), chords of a musical work in a hierarchy of perceived ''relations'', ''stabilities'', ''attractions'', and ''directionality''. In this hierarchy, the single pitch or ...

, a system of writing music involving the relationship of pitch to some centered key * "Tonal", a song by the American band Bright from the album ''

The Albatross Guest House Bright is a post-rock and ambient music group based in Brooklyn, New York. History Bright self-released a cassette before signing deals with two independent labels, Ba Da Bing! Records and Darla Records, and releasing records alternately on bo ...

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