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"an atonic syllable carries no stress"adjective(used of syllables) carrying no stress
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characterized by a lack of tonus
Definition that contains atonic
- key any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- mode any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave
- fa the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization
- tonic (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
- dominant (music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale
- keynote (music) the first note of a diatonic scale
- mohican a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic
- catatonia extreme tonus; muscular rigidity; a common symptom in catatonic schizophrenia
- tonality any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- atonality the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system