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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tone colour

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

Just as these shadow languages of speech may distort or even absolutely reverse the meaning of the spoken word, so can tone colour and harmony change the meaning of a musical phrase.

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

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 W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell

From the time of his complete immersion in composition, his ideas of pianistic effects, of tone colour, gradually led him farther and farther away from conventional pianism.

From Edward MacDowell by Lawrence Gilman

For, by omitting this note you do alter the tone colour of the chord as well as its sonority.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann

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