But then along comes a texture, timbre or pattern that is simply too frog-like or insect-like to be dismissed as a mere electronic simulacrum. |
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The timbre of his voice, his posture and bearing, gave him an aura of steady authority. |
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Birch intentionally warps perspective and depth in a way that brings to mind jazz music and its deliberate distortion of pitch and timbre. |
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In the wake of the politics of the late 1990s, Americans may be sensitive to moral timbre. |
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The soprano exhibited dark, smoky richness of timbre and pure, dulcet high tones that entranced the ear. |
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The timbre and quality of its resonance had a lingering delicate quality, which communicated nuances of infinite variety. |
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Changes in timbre, in speed, in tone are intended to arouse feelings in the listener, such as passion or jealousy. |
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French bassoons had a reedy, pungent tone, quite unlike the rounded timbre of German bassoons. |
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Training imparts a sort of grace to their movements and timbre in their voice. |
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It was one long string of notes, connected not in harmony or key, but with semblances of consistency that emerge in rhythm and timbre. |
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Once past social amenities, Sula's reunion with Eva resonates with the troublous timbre between an ogbanje and parent. |
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He was an actor of the old school, his voice capable of uncommon levels of thrilling timbre. |
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Margaret Thatcher covered her status as a woman when she trained with a voice coach to lower the timbre of her voice. |
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The effect of volume on timbre is most pronounced in the chalumeau register. |
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Four puffs in and I heard a caterwauling with the timbre of a steam hammer driving in shipyard rivets. |
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The timbre and cadence of his drawling voice startle at first and the listener becomes absorbed by his speech rhythms, pauses, and inflections. |
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One of the most consistent outcomes from such timbre experiments is that brightness is an important factor. |
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Peter Sculthorpe loves the cello's full, sonorous timbre and this recording strikingly demonstrates his expert use of it. |
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So both pieces are composed for a weird ensemble, with unconventional weightings of timbre and register. |
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I think, that the change in timbre when using una corda is maybe not enough perceivable. |
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He has a voice not dissimilar in timbre and penetrative ability to the incredibly annoying comedian Stephen Merchant. |
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Chapter Four discusses the resonant voice and includes information about the singer's timbre, the open throat, voice placement and vowel formants. |
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The power, timbre, and range of her voice made her performance the best part of the night. |
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Arguably, one could hardly have improved on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, with its weight, pureness of timbre, and intrinsic sympathy for the material. |
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Her melodies match the melancholy mood of her vocal timbre, using protracted, dirge-like lines for an effect that may initially seem haunting, but eventually gets pretty old. |
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Barry Banks's Orestes was a bit overwrought and his timbre veered on reediness. |
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His poor control of a decrescendo on a long, high note in the first song rings alarm bells, and his richness of timbre deserts him in Serenade florentine. |
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Ms. Jackson has long gravitated toward adventurous tracks that complement the exotic timbre of her small, breathy voice. |
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Projecting a big, burnished timbre, the young Canadian showed herself in sympathy with Elgar's work. |
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His timbre and his perfect pitch, which one can immediately distinguish, bring identifiable colour to general harmony. |
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Firstly, all the works recorded fitted perfectly the sound, range and stereophonic timbre of the concert accordion. |
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Its new system can encode the distinctive timbre of this by analysing about an hour's worth of recordings. |
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He perversely emphasized the differences rather than the similarities of timbre between instruments and even wrote an elaborate justification of this wrong-headedness. |
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The sound is excellent for its age and the particular timbre of oboes, clarinets and bassoons accompanied by the battery of kettledrums has to be heard to be believed! |
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The timbre of the althorns and waldhorns is quite different. |
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He juggles multiple systems of rhythm, melody, structure and timbre. |
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Vocals feature more frequently, too, though more for their harmonic qualities and instrumental timbre than for any literal meanings they might convey. |
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Other characteristics, such as timbre, density of texture, spatial location of sounds, dynamics, articulation, and phrasing, tend to be overlooked. |
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Finally, however, her mellifluous voice with its distinctive accent and timbre began captivating the hearts of audiences elsewhere, and she shot to fame. |
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His work continues to present a double vision, one touched by both calamity and glee, and whose self-consciously public language underscores its highly personal timbre. |
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If you seem to lack presidential timbre, you will likely feel frozen out. |
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The cat ceased snarling and presently began a loud purring which seemed to increase in timbre as he stroked her. |
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Each of the clones behaves in her own unique way, each with her own distinctive body language, timbre, and sensibilities. |
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The standard vibrato of the Boehm flute does give life to its tone, but it might be interesting to be able to vary pitch, volume, and timbre independently and simultaneously. |
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Ryan and the Bavarian orchestra produce an infinite variety of shades and hues, and this is important, because timbre is everything in Feldman's music. |
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CharlElie's sound may be difficult to pin down into any one category, but thanks to his quirky lyrics, the distinctive timbre of his voice and his general outlook on life, his music is instantly recognisable. |
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With all its youthful unconcern towards compositional technique, this music displays his seriousness and strength of expression, together with a dark instrumental timbre, as well as an abruptness or at times brusqueness. |
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Then, in her 20s, she set about acquiring the tragic worldliness that the timbre of her voice conveyed. Compared with the anodyne, identikit bands churned out by talent shows, Ms Winehouse was an unusual pop idol. |
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Thanks to Odetta's unusual, almost genderless timbre, it's a poetry that haunts. |
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The Ganassi Recorder is very captivating: rich in timbre, precise in its attacks, powerful and dynamic, colorful in the lower register and subtle in the upper. |
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With the Grand Concert, triangle's engineers have managed to blend together seemingly incompatible elements: the full texture of the timbre coupled with sublime airiness and power which conserves all its femininity. |
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His recordings, most of which were produced in New York City, incorporated gospel-derived vocal techniques shouted interjections, an exhortatory recitation, melisma, and rasping timbre. |
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The timbre of Calvi's voice quite often recalls the antic Polly, and the dramatic themes in her songs – desire, loss, devils, female manfulness – have been previously explored by Harvey. |
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The combined ingredients of a violin-like cantabile, the sustained harmonies of a keyboard instrument and its unique timbre colours made of the lute the ideal vehicle for the expression of musical thought. |
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As they prattle on, you step back mentally and start to catalog the irritating timbre of the offending voice, the reliance on cliché, the almost comic repetitiousness — in short, you begin constructing a story. |
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Nearly all professional cymbals are made from bronze, which gives a desirable balance of durability and timbre. |
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Recorded during five years of research in libraries and archives of ornithology, these songs, chirrups, hoots and warbling were chosen for their timbre and their easily recognizable tonal ranges and frequencies. |
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The resulting sound is a timbre that is punctuated by rhythmic variations in volume, filter cutoff, or distortion. |
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This may be due to the possibility of vibrato and of slight expressive adjustments in pitch and timbre. |
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Much of the timbre of a voice whose richness in an earlier era was synonymous with an image of supervirility remains intact. |
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As the tin content in a bell or cymbal rises, the timbre drops. |
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The band blows a range of saxophones from soprano, the smallest to the bulky bass saxophone, producing a broad range of musical timbre suiting every possible emotion. |
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But exemplar of this unlaboured quality was the buoyantly nimble Chorus whose meticulously managed phrasing, timbre and dynamics always felt spontaneously alive. |
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Even younger voices came from the CBSO Children's Chorus, both ethereal and urchinlike of timbre as they sang down to the Prommers from way up in the gallery. |
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Suprasegmental phenomena encompass such elements as stress, phonation type, voice timbre, and prosody or intonation, all of which may have effects across multiple segments. |
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This sort of painting calls to mind what musicians call timbre. |
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