» timbre
Noun (1 meaning)
1. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound).
Examples:
- “the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely”,
- “the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet”
timbre is a type of:
- sound property (noun) - an attribute of sound
types of timbre:
- color, colour, coloration, colouration (noun) - the timbre of a musical sound
- harmonic (noun) - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
- nasality (noun) - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
- plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy (noun) - having the character of a loud deep sound
- register (noun) - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
- resonance (noun) - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities
- shrillness, stridence, stridency (noun) - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
timbre is derivationally related to:
- tonal (adjective) - having tonality
- to tone, inflect, modulate (verb) - vary the pitch of one's speech
Domain of synset - TOPIC:
- music (noun) - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner