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Timbre   /tˈɪmbər/   Listen
Timbre

noun
1.
(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).  Synonyms: quality, timber, tone.  "The muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"





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"Timbre" Quotes from Famous Books



... itself; here was a man's holding, one man's, and it was as big and wide as a king's estate. She looked swiftly at the tall man at her side; it was his or would be his. And he need not have told her; what she had read in the timbre of his voice she saw written large in his eyes; they were bright with the joy ...
— The Desert Valley • Jackson Gregory
 
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... That represents intensity. If either you or George had sung that note I should have been able to detect it, whatever its pitch or intensity, because your voices are as unlike as different musical instruments, and that is character, or timbre, as the French ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns • Roger Thompson Finlay
 
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... silence. Mrs. Pember's voice had a marked sweetness when she spoke to her daughter, which it lost entirely when she addressed her daughter's companion, but always it was penetrated by the timbre of ...
— A Christmas Accident and Other Stories • Annie Eliot Trumbull
 
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... as if the nightmare had become a reality. He was waiting for death not in the form of a truck, but in the regular swish of air that tickled his ears as his oxygen supply was purified and replenished. Eventually the sound would change its timbre as the purifying agents became less efficient. The faint sound was not as impressive as the sight of a truck. But he knew that in a short time it would be just as deadly. And, as in the nightmare, he ...
— No Hiding Place • Richard R. Smith
 
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... that character, Mozart's specific quality of emotion and specific style of musical utterance, together with the contralto's interpretation of the character and rendering of the music, according to her intellectual capacity, artistic skill, and timbre of voice, have collaborated with the individuality of the hearer. Some of the constituents of the ever-varying product—a product which is new each time the part is played—are fixed. Da Ponte's Cherubino and Mozart's ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
 
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