tone colour

British  

noun

1. Often shortened to: tone.  the quality of a musical sound that is conditioned or distinguished by the upper partials or overtones present in it See also timbre

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Stockhausen's message – that melody, rhythm, harmony and tone colour were all aspects of vibration – held enormous appeal for him.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012

And there, I think, for the first time, the whole gamut of natural vision, tone, colour, form, light and shade, atmosphere, focus, &c., considered as one impression, were put on canvas.

From The Practice and Science of Drawing by Speed, Harold

It has something of the tone, colour, and luxuriance of Solomon's Song; both, too, have the same theme, though treated in a different way....

From The Song of the Flag A National Ode by Mackay, Eric

In playing his larger works, he loved to make his music sweep in great waves, and to introduce the most wonderful contrasts and varieties of tone colour.

From Edward MacDowell by Porte, John F.

This work stuns by its glorious magnificence of tonal texture; the suggestion, in the opening measures, of the rising sun is a mighty example of the overwhelming power of tone colour.

From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)