tonal pattern

1. 1.

   the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes

   Synonymsmelody

   Broadermusical perception

Questions about tonal pattern

What does tonal pattern mean?

tonal pattern means "the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes".

What is another word for tonal pattern?

Close synonyms include melody. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tonal pattern a common word?

tonal pattern is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.