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synonyms for tone color

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

antonyms for tone color

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  • unimportance
  • weakness
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How to use tone color in a sentence

In connection with this comes the consideration of slides and the finer modulations of tone-color, movement, and cadence.
EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICK
He had grasped the first principle of tone color—namely tone contrast, and also a poetic idea.
PIANO MASTERYHARRIETTE BROWER
We can make as wonderful combinations in tone color as ever painter put upon canvas.
PIANO MASTERYHARRIETTE BROWER
How shall two such opposites as rhythm and tone color be connected, even in name, some will ask.
PIANO MASTERYHARRIETTE BROWER
One of the most potent means of emotional expression is vocal tone color.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SINGINGDAVID C. TAYLOR
He listens with the greatest possible intensity to every shade of tone-color until his ideal tone reveals itself.
GREAT SINGERS ON THE ART OF SINGINGJAMES FRANCIS COOKE
Little shading in operatic tone color is possible unless an accompanying phrase permits it or the trumpeter swallows a pin!
GREAT SINGERS ON THE ART OF SINGINGJAMES FRANCIS COOKE
Nor can one discover in this music a distinctly original sense of either rhythm of harmony or tone-color.
MUSICAL PORTRAITSPAUL ROSENFELD
There are those who contend that Beethoven's instrumentation was bad and his tone color poor.
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHYIGOR STRAVINSKY
Kneisel kept me at during the entire lesson, till I was able to adjust its tone-color and nuances to the accompanying harmony.
VIOLIN MASTERYFREDERICK H. MARTENS
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO TONE COLOR

  • accent
  • emphasis
  • force
  • inflection
  • intonation
  • modulation
  • resonance
  • strength
  • stress
  • timbre
  • tone color
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.