Tone

Tone may refer to:

• Musical tone, a sound characterized by its duration, pitch, intensity, and timbre
• Musical note, the name of a pitch
• Pitch (music), the high or low sound of a musical instrument
• 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
• Whole tone, or major second, a commonly occurring musical interval

• 2 Tone (music genre) or Two Tone, style of music combining elements of ska and punk
• Tone (TVXQ album), a 2011 album by Tohoshinki
• Tone (Jeff Ament album), a 2008 album by Jeff Ament
• Tone (DC band), a DC instrumental band formed in 1991
• Tones (album), a 1986 album by Eric Johnson
• Tønes (born 1972), the artistic name of Norwegian singer Frank Tønnesen

• Tone River (disambiguation)
• Tone, Gunma, Japan
• Tone, Ibaraki, Japan
• Tone, Somerset, England

• Muscle tone, the state of tension or responsiveness of the organs or tissues of the body
• Toning exercises, the use of exercise to develop hard, but not necessarily large, musculature tone

Given name

• Tone Lōc (born 1966), American hip hop artist and actor
• Tone Damli Aaberge (born 1988), Norwegian singer
• Tone, American producer and member of the production group Trackmasters
• Tone, alias of Tony Chung, member of Taiwanese-American mainstream pop duo Cool Silly

Surname

• Franchot Tone (1905–1968), American actor
• Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish republican
• Yasunao Tone (born 1935), Japanese artist

• A mix of tint and shade in painting and color theory
• Japanese cruiser Tone (pronounced "Toe-Neh"), ship of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Lightness, the lightness or brightness (as well as darkness) of a colour
• Tone (literature), a literary technique which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work that is compatible with the other drive
• Tone (magazine), New Zealand technology magazine
• Tone's Spices, a brand owned by Associated British Foods
• Toning (coin), colour change in coins
• Tone policing, focusing on the emotion of a message rather than its content.