adjective. Of or relating to tones, a tone, or tonality.

In music, of or pertaining to tones.

Pertaining to tonality: as, a tonal fugue.

Of or pertaining to muscular tonicity.

noun. An animal companion which accompanies a person from birth to death.

adjective. Of or relating to tones or tonality.

adjective. Employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic.

adjective. Employing differences in pitch (tones) to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words (words which would otherwise be homophonic).

adjective. employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words

adjective. having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation to one tone such as a keynote or tonic

"I would probably "ground" the audience in tonal conventional music sounds during the real-world part of Zann and move them into atonal "out-there" sounds when that window opens (if I am recalling the story correctly)."

atonal  

tonal fugue  tonal imitation  

diatonic  keyed  polytonal  toned  tonic  

tonality  tonally  

atonal  conal  monoclonal  

chromatic  conceptual  distinctive  ever-changing  geometric  

accented  alveolar  apical  apico-alveolar  apico-dental