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For Mr. Savage it served as an opportunity to show off the full range of his technical skills, which include not only a facility with rapid scales and arpeggios, but also a command of a broad tone-color palette.
The Musical Maturing of Matt Savage Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2008
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If it's between tone and color, you get tone-color synaesthesia.
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If it's between tone and color, you get tone-color synaesthesia.
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If it's between tone and color, you get tone-color synaesthesia.
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What a glow of tone-color there is in all this harmonic re-enforcement, and who would now say that the pedals should never be used?
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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That so many literary men and women have vaguely suspected the alluring tone-color of the word "gossip" is proved by: _A
Conversation What to Say and How to Say it Mary Greer Conklin
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If too marked distinctions in the vowel-sounds are made by the singer, the result is disagreeable; while if the voice preserves a similar hue or tone-color throughout, the effect is pleasing.
The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs Francis E. Howard
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The second cause for the concreteness of the musical experience I take to be certain emotions and feelings which are aroused by association, not with the rhythmic elements of music alone, but with the tone-color, intensity, and melody also.
The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker
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This training aims to secure freedom of tone, purity of tone, fullness of tone, variety of volume, and tone-color.
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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Entering into the motives of the story gives action, entering into the thought gives form, and entering into the feeling gives tone-color to the voice.
A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready
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