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tone color

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noun Music.

tone quality; timbre.

Words nearby tone color

tonbridge, tondo, tone, tone arm, tone cluster, tone color, tone colour, tone control, tone dialing, tone down, tone language

Origin of tone color

First recorded in 1880–85

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020

Examples from the Web for tone color

Dr. Johnson ridiculed the idea of tone-color, as appearing in Pope's teaching that the sound should be "an echo to the sense."
English Verse|Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
We shall use this poem to-day as a text for our study in tone-color.
Vocal Expression|Katherine Jewell Everts
Under the second head rime is considered simply as a form of tone-color, and as furnishing a part of the melody of verse.
English Verse|Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
Next in this poem which affords such a wonderful study for tone-color we have the hautboy's message.
Vocal Expression|Katherine Jewell Everts

And now we must turn to our last point of discussion, tone-color.
Vocal Expression|Katherine Jewell Everts

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