tonus
Definition of the Latin term tonus in music:
- tone, pitch
- whole tone
- tonal formula to which a liturgical text is chanted
- mode
Language
Latin
Singular
tonus
Plural
toni
Combinations
Latin musical terms that include tonus:
- ditonus – interval of two whole steps (equivalent to a major...
- hemitonium – half step, semitone
- semitonium – half step (American English), semitone (British En...
- subsemitonium – leading note
- subsemitonium modi – leading note
- subtonium modi – pitch right below the lowest pitch of a mode (scal...
- tonus peregrinus – literally "wandering tone"...
- tritonus – tritone (interval of six half steps, enharmonic wi...