Timbres

Throughout most of the album, Dunn seems chiefly concerned with the timbres of the guitar and organ, and the varied textures these timbres can create as they move through a given phrase. ❋ Daniel J. Kushner (2011)

But mostly this was communal music, with interlocking parts, contrasting timbres and harmonic convergences that lent weight and meaning. ❋ Larry Blumenfeld (2011)

But so it went ... and the next time Gil and I met we were in a custom-fashioned sound booth (courtesy of Gil), made just for making noise with paper -- paper of all textures, thicknesses, grains, and timbres. ❋ George Heymont (2010)

The Anderson, composed in 2009, was a wonderfully imaginative piece, highly sophisticated in its thematic and textural development, not least the vast array of timbres utilised for example, bowing below the bridge on stringed instruments. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Michael Rubenstein for the Wall Street Journal Morton Subotnick's innovative music-maker Among his early achievements was "Silver Apples of the Moon," a seminal electronic-music album from 1967—and a recent addition to the National Recording Registry—that mixed alien tones and timbres with insistent rhythmic pulsations. ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)

Just as in Western music, there is a sound ideal in the music of China that originates in the language itself and runs from vocal production through the timbres of individual instruments to the sonorities of a full orchestra. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But even in this relatively early opera, Strauss had found himself as a musical colorist: It's the range of sounds and timbres of the orchestras that make or break his music, rather than the particular tempo. ❋ Anne Midgette (2010)

Kallen envisioned a United States in the image of a great symphony orchestra, not sounding in unison the melting pot but rather one in which all the disparate cultures play in harmony while retaining their unique and distinctive tones and timbres. ❋ Warren J. Blumenfeld (2011)

Her self-penned songs Reencountro Tu Ojos, Staying Closer, Alegria, are pulsed by scintillating vocal percussion, interlocking, Pan-Afro/American rhythmic structures, tinges of Joni Mitchell-style rock timbres, and flamenco-flavored handclaps. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And why shouldn't they be, considering that their musical powers—in particular, their high notes and distinctive timbres—are undiminished, not to mention that they're able to swing players half their age into bad health? ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

I live not very far from the lovely village of Coupvray -- they had an enormous fete for his anniversaire, and La Poste there had a special cancellation of the commemorative timbres issued for the occasion. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In my thesis which examined the sound and music of Halo 2, one of the main discoveries was an identifiable link between the music and sound effects – that a level of ‘musicality’ is imparted into the sound effects via common timbres and pitches. ❋ Ben Abraham (2009)

But maybe even more remarkable than this instrumental interplay were the high, ravaged vocals of Ardoin, his coarse, dirty timbres possessed of an otherworldly quality akin to leather-throated bluesmen such as Patton and Blind Willie Johnson. ❋ Unknown (2011)