tone color

tone quality; timbre.

QUIZZES

Even if you can't be a professional chef, you can at least talk like one with this vocabulary quiz.

Question 1 of 9

You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

First recorded in 1880–85

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