tone

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Technical music terms
acciaccatura
accidental
aeolian
aleatory
alto clef
antiphonal
discordant
harmonic
harmonic progression
harmony
hemidemisemiquaver
inversion
overtone
ritardando
rubato
scherzando
scordatura
secco recitative
voice part
whole step

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Describing qualities of sound

timbre | American Dictionary

timbre
noun[ C ]
us/ˈtæm·bər, ˈtɪm·bər/
music
a feature of sound in music that is produced by a particular instrument or voice

Examples of timbre

timbre
A circle of constant radius should vary in timbre but remain constant in brightness and pitch.
All the children in the study were successful to varying degrees in the discrimination of both kinds of timbre (environmental and musical instrument).
The timbre will also vary over time if the magnitude response is not flat, since the harmonics of the signal will attenuate at different rates.
To help users more easily distinguish among the sounds controlled by different players, we make small modifications to timbre and panning for each synthesis instrument.
In the first case the composer seems to connect many of the electronic timbres with hypothetical acoustic instruments.
Giving the performer control over the flow of time is crucial; control over dynamics and timbres is also valuable.
There are dynamic profiles that are characteristic of certain timbres, namely sounds of the type attackresonance.
Sometimes referred to simply as 'tone color', timbre is actually difficult to define.
Distance between hands sends control 1 messages, producing other kinds of timbre changes.
The brightness of the bowed-string timbre produced by the physical model varies with the speed of the virtual bow.
There is a fine line here between timbre and dynamics.
These entries in particular are touching, and indicate the importance of unique timbres and how they signify critical relationships in our lives.
Stationary instrumental groups are placed around the audience and successively play sounds of the same pitch and timbre with similar dynamic envelopes (crescendo-decrescendo).
The perceptual dimensions underlying similarity judgments between pairs of timbres are based on the amplitude pattern of the spectra.
Can this unification include timbre so that the inner characteristics of its sounds affect the structure of a piece?
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