what are sound tones
pure tone is a tone with a sinusoidal waveform reciting tone such as psalm tone and recitative as in gregorian chants timbre the quality of a musical note or sound that distinguishes different types of sound production tonality a system of music based on a key center or tonic tone control a typically electronic control for affecting frequency content of an audio signal tone linguistics the pitch and pitch changes in words of certain languages tone musical instrument the audible characteristics of a musician s sound