tone color
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These segments diverge in tone, color and movement from the muted palette and fixed compositions with which cinematographer Steve Cosens girds the biographical narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
But in this new study that we’ve done, we looked at cases where people were using a skin tone color for their emoji that didn’t match their actual skin color.
From The Verge ● Dec. 12, 2018
As a fiddler, though, to reach the top, she will need to cultivate a much wider range of tone color, particularly in slow, lyrical sections; the sound was too often dry or pinched.
From Washington Post ● May 8, 2016
Mr. Appleby brought nervy physicality to the part, but could seem a little blank vocally, singing with smooth and pliant tone but few variations in tone color.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2016
Each voice has a unique tone color that is described using adjectives or metaphors such as “nasally,” “resonant,” “vibrant,” “strident,” “high,” “low,” “breathy,” “piercing,” “ringing,” “rounded,” “warm,” “mellow,” “dark,” “bright,” “heavy,” “light,” “vibrato.”
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
