tone color

Example Sentences

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His tone color on the piano can shift from vinegary to supple in seconds.

From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2023

She is a soprano who employs little vibrato, has a huge supply of tone color and a taut delivery that makes every word not only intelligible but indispensable.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2020

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

It was arguably worth exhuming, not just for the curiosity value but for the touch of golden tone color it provided in the depths of the music.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2015

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