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tone color

noun as in tonality

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How you distinguish a violin from a guitar, or an angry voice from a happy one, is through tone color.

In connection with this comes the consideration of slides and the finer modulations of tone-color, movement, and cadence.

He had grasped the first principle of tone color—namely tone contrast, and also a poetic idea.

We can make as wonderful combinations in tone color as ever painter put upon canvas.

How shall two such opposites as rhythm and tone color be connected, even in name, some will ask.

One of the most potent means of emotional expression is vocal tone color.

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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tone color, such as: timbre, accent, emphasis, force, inflection, and intonation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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