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111List of quarter tone pieces — A selection of compositions using Quarter tones: *Jan Bach::Concert Variations for solo euphonium; the euphoniumist frequently creates quarter tones by using alternate out of tune valve combinations and subtle embouchure adjustments.*Clarence… …
112Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System — In telecommunications, Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System or CTCSS is a circuit that is used to reduce the annoyance of listening to other users on a shared two way radio communications channel. It is sometimes called tone squelch. Where more… …
113Varieties of Chinese — Chinese Geographic distribution: mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore and other areas with historic immigration from China. Linguistic classification: Sino Tibetan Sinitic …
114Chinese languages — or Sinitic languages Family of languages comprising one of the two branches of Sino Tibetan. They are spoken by about 95% of the inhabitants of China and by many communities of Chinese immigrants elsewhere. Linguists regard the major dialect… …
115Selective calling — SECAL redirects here. For the French wine grape also known as Secal, see Jurançon (grape). In a conventional, analog two way radio system, a standard radio has noise squelch or carrier squelch which allows a radio to receive all transmissions.… …
116sound reception — Introduction response of an organism s aural mechanism, the ear, to a specific form of energy change, or sound waves. Sound waves can be transmitted through gases, liquids, or solids, but the hearing function of each species is particularly …
117Mandarin Chinese — This article is about the group of Northern and Southwestern Chinese dialects. For the official spoken standardized Chinese language (Putonghua/Guoyu), see Standard Chinese. Mandarin 官話/官话 Guānhuà G …
118Microtonal music — Composer Charles Ives chose the chord above as good possibility for a fundamental chord in the quarter tone scale, akin not to the tonic but to the major chord of traditional tonality.(Boatright 1971, 8 9)   …
119CTCSS — In telecommunications, Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System or CTCSS is a circuit that is used to reduce the annoyance of listening to other users on a shared two way radio communications channel. Where more than one user group is on the same… …
120Reciting tone — In chant, a reciting tone (also called a recitation tone) is a repeated musical pitch around which the other pitches of the chant gravitate, or by extension, the entire melodic formula that centers on one or two such pitches. In Gregorian chant,… …
