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How to use timbre in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Timbre means the quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume. Example: “When someone speaks after inhaling helium, his voice has a higher timbre. With sulfur hexafluoride, the result is a lower timbre.”

Examples of timbre by meaning

nounThe pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch.

  • When someone speaks after inhaling helium, his voice has a higher timbre. With sulfur hexafluoride, the result is a lower timbre.

More sentences with timbre

  • Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.From the entry fulsome
  • It shouldn't be hard to come up with a musical syllabary in which pitches code for vowels and timbres code for consonants.From the entry syllabary
  • This sort of painting calls to mind what musicians call timbre.2004, Michael Drolet, editor, The Postmodernism Reader: Foundational Texts, page 258. From the entry call to mind
  • Hakola’s music scampers about mischievously, mixing together shapely lyricism, atonality, quirky folkishness and an almost hedonistic approach to timbre and rhythm.2007 April 26, Allan Kozinn, “A Finnish Composer Possessed of a Joyful, Mischievous Spirit”, in New York Times. From the entry folkishness
  • However dorktastic, the project reveals trends in timbre and taste.2006 April, Christopher R. Weingarten, “Pop Suey!”, in Spin, volume 22, number 4, page 42. From the entry dorktastic
  • This double-headed square frame drum, which is roughly the same size as the tar, may have bells attached inside the drum for varying timbres.2012, Matt Dean, The Drum: A History, Scarecrow Press, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry adufe
  • Much of the timbre of a voice whose richness in an earlier era was synonymous with an image of supervirility remains intact.2009 January 15, Stephen Holden, “A Crooner Returns, With a Swing in His Heart”, in New York Times. From the entry supervirility
  • In contrast to the Western structure, the vocal style is usually distinctively Middle Eastern, distinguished by a nasal timbre and a mellismatic singing ornamentation.1996, Eliezer Moshe Finegold, Musika Mizrahit: From the Margins to the Mainstream, page 7. From the entry mellismatic
  • The serial order of emphasis in the phonetic processes of speech should be phrasing, timing, stress, melody, timbre, and accuracy, not the reverse (45).1949-1967, Bette La Verne Fauth, Warren Wesley Fauth, A Study of the Proceedings of the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf…. From the entry overprecision
  • In classical voice training, and in the world of classical singing, voices are divided into categories dependent on timbre or tonal colour and tessitura or comfortable average pitch range.2014, Jane Streeton, Philip Raymond, Singing on Stage, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry tessitura
  • Yet, a richer diversity of song texture and timbre would elevate this 12-track collection from gorgeous, atmospheric background fodder to a set that reverberates with more distinction.2002, Billboard, volume 114, number 23, page 35. From the entry background fodder
  • Most theater organs use many sets (ranks) of reed and flue pipes of various shapes, pipe scales, and so forth to generate a variety of timbres.1980, Harvey E[lliott] White, Donald H. White, “Wind Instruments”, in Physics and Music: The Science of Musical Sound, Philadelphia, Pa.…. From the entry pipe
  • Here it was the province of an electronic harpsichordlike timbre (presumably from a laptop) and an electric bass, played assertively by Zach Layton and supported by the drummer, David Justh.2007 December 1, Allan Kozinn, “That Same Old Beat, With Brand-New Choices”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 17 Jan…. From the entry filigree
  • Practically all children and a good many adults—though for the most part adults will deny it—spontaneously associate sounds, whether phonemes or the timbre of musical instruments, with colors and forms.1963, Claude Lévi–Strauss, “Postscript to Chapters III and IV”, in Claire Jacobson, Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, transl., Structural…. From the entry synaesthesia

Meaning of timbre

  1. noun The quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.
  2. noun The pitch of a sound as heard by the ear, described relative to its absolute pitch.
  3. noun The crest on a (helmet atop a) coat of arms.

Full definition of timbre

Questions about timbre in a sentence

How do you use timbre in a sentence?
Timbre is used as a noun. For example: “When someone speaks after inhaling helium, his voice has a higher timbre. With sulfur hexafluoride, the result is a lower timbre.”
What is a short sentence with timbre?
“Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.”
What does timbre mean?
Timbre means the quality of a sound independent of its pitch and volume.

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