Definitions
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- adj. Of or pertaining to the timbre of a sound
Etymologies
Examples
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It seems to me that what classical musicians learn aurally is largely rhythmic and timbral, which is a different proposition than being expected to learn a series of pitches by ear.
All your compliments and your cutting remarks / Are captured here in my quotation marks
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Led by playing of uncommon mellowness and timbral purity from clarinetist Anthony McGill, enhanced by the elegant understatement of veteran violist Michael Tree and the character-rich keyboard work of pianist Anna Polonsky, they brought out the genial warmth in Mozart's writing.
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What's more, Mr. Curatolo's voice is not merely "admirably precise" -- it is quite gorgeous, actually, and thoroughly at home within the minute timbral variations of vintage McCartney.
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"Movement" coasts on a stasis of guitar washes, but is able to transcend the lack of timbral variety with engaging, layered harmonic interplay.
Daniel J. Kushner: Anti-Cinematic: The Music of Kyle Bobby Dunn
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The piece makes much of the timbral overlap between cello and violin, and relates to a wider "web" of chamber pieces.
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What's more, Mr. Curatolo's voice is not merely "admirably precise"--it is quite gorgeous, actually, and thoroughly at home within the minute timbral variations of vintage McCartney.
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Kevin Jablonski played the double-bass Figment III with easygoing aplomb, its rhetoric similar to "Statement" with the dialiectic addition of the profound timbral contrast between the instrument's high and low.
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Lucy Shelton was the soprano, singing with a text-driven timbral variety that ran the gamut from whispered Sprechstimme to soaring verismo; Christoph Altstaedt conducted.
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Steep Steps, for bass clarinet, plays the timbral angle for humor, staccato Raymond-Scott machinery in the bass against the unlikely espressivo of the instrument's treble, ending with a big-band saxophone-like wail of clarino; Brent Besner hit it all with character and flair.
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The first of its three movements, “Pillars,” speaks in the language of delicately hazy post-tonality, with only timbral hints — from vibraphones and cymbals — of jazz-inspired intentions.
Tanglewood Festival: Stacking the Deck With Jazz - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
qroqqa commented on the word timbral
"Pertaining to musical timbre", heard just now on the wireless twice in quick succession, pronounced (by a USAan) three syllables ['tæːmbərəl], from the de-nasalized 'timbre' ['tæːmbər].
November 11, 2008