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Encyclopedia of Microtonal Music Theory

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tonus

(Latin: "tone", from Greek tonos)

[Joe Monzo]
1. the whole-tone

The "whole-tone" musical interval, also called "major-2nd" or simply "tone".

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2. octave species of notes

A certain octave species of notes, which exhibits a certain pattern of intervals between degrees of the scale, all permutations of which constitutes a system of modes.

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