tone-colour

For we then realize that sounds never occur of themselves without some tone-colour, whilst physically 'pure' tones - those that represent simple harmonic motions - exist only as an artificial laboratory product.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

Similarly, two musical instruments of the same kind are distinguished from each other by tone-colour.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

In the recitative "Deeper and deeper still," with its subsequent aria "Waft her, angels, through the skies" [Handel], he ranged through the entire gamut of tone-colour.

Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

As it was then the spectrum, so it will be now the so-called quality of sound, or tone-colour.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

It is the tone-colour by which the tone of a violin, for instance, is distinguished from a tone of equal intensity and pitch produced by a flute.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

In it, a judicious use of tone-colour, accent, and variations of tempo, all combine to elucidate in the highest possible degree the idea of both composer and poet:

Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

By his art, by clever devices of varied tone-colour and degrees of intensity, he can so screen the momentary loss of brilliance, etc., as to conceal that fact from his auditors, who imagine him to be in the possession of his normal physical powers.

Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

This desideratum of varied tone-colour is sought even by instrumentalists.

Style in Singing W. E. Haslam

In fact, it was precisely an instance of this kind of experience, namely, our conception of tone-colour, which gave us our lead in discussing the acoustic sphere in general.

Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

Church music has in common with secular music the combination of tones in melody and harmony, the division of time in rhythm, measure, and tempo, dynamics, or distribution of power, tone-colour in voice and instruments, the simpler and more complicated styles of composition.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913