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tone scale

n. (context Scientology English) A subjective appraisal of a person's spiritual aliveness, usually given by an auditor, ranging from 'total failure' to 'serenity of beingness'.

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Tone scale

Tone scale may refer to:

  • Musical scales, including the Whole tone scale
  • Color scales
  • Emotional tone scale, a Scientology concept

Usage examples of "tone scale".

They guided us back by torch-glow, singing the whole distance, on a twelve-tone scale with some of the damnedest harmony I have ever come across.

A group of musicians wailed in a strange seven-tone scale while young people pounded and cavorted on a dance floor.

Salsa from a hanging radio vied with tapes of wistful Cantonese five-tone scale and customers with obscured but still-discernible Chinese features drilled vendors with Cuban Spanish.

Their compositions for four hands were thought by some to have revolutionized the twelve-tone scale.

I said aloud, which delighted it and set it humming up and down a nineteen-tone scale that was awful beyond all imagining, “.

I myself have heard an organ in the Netherlands, built by a fanatic named Fokker, which is tuned to a thirty-one-tone scale the same scale proposed by Christian Huygens quite a few scores of decades earlier.

They are noted for their feuds, furies ~nd their inverted affective tone scale.