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| | Timbre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In music, timbre, also timber, (French, IPA /'tæmbər/ as in the first two syllables of tambourine) is the quality of a musical note or sound which distinguishes different types of sound production or musical instruments. | | | The timbre of a sound is also greatly effected by the following factors: attack or Interonset interval, decay, sustain, release, and transients. | | | The physical characteristics of sound which are used in the determination of timbre are spectrum and envelope with psychoacoustics or human perception also determining the perceived quality of a sound as the "sound color". |
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| | Talk:Timbre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | One might define timbre as "that characteristic of sensation which enables the listeners to recognize the kind of musical instrumnet producing the tone, that is, whether it is a cornet, a flute or a violin." (p. | | | Another possibility is that timbre is perceived simply in terms of the acoustic properties and that the connection between the acoustic properties and the object is learned by experience. | | | The singular character of timbre become particularly apparent in the dictionary definition of timbre as 'the characteristic quality of sound that distinguishes one voice or musical instrumnet from another or one vowel sound from another' (Webster). |
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| | [n] the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); & timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet". |
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| | Shaku Timbre |
| | Timbre is the resultant sound envelope of adding all the sine waves together--fundamental and harmonics (figure 3). | | | The timbre of a tuning fork is close to the sound of a single sine wave--just the fundamental and few if any prominent harmonics so it should look like figure 1. | | | Timbre is the resultant sound envelope of the combination of various sine waves (figure 3). |
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http://www.navaching.com/shaku/timbre.html
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| | Sound Quality or Timbre |
| | The primary contributers to the quality or timbre of the sound of a musical instrument are harmonic content, attack and decay, and vibrato. | | | The interval shown with the guitar string above is also about half a second, but since its frequency is much lower, you can resolve the individual periods in that sound envelope. | | | The illustration above shows the attack and decay of a plucked guitar string. |
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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/sound/timbre.html
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| | Relating Tuning and Timbre |
| | Listen to the consonance of the various intervals in this timbre. | | | If this timbre is sounded at various intervals, the dissonance of the intervals can be calculated by adding up all of the dissonances between all pairs of partials. | | | Carlos investigated scales for nonharmonic timbres by overlaying their spectra and searching for intervals in which partials coincide, thus minimizing the beats (or roughness) of the sound. |
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http://eceserv0.ece.wisc.edu/~sethares/consemi.html
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| | Borwell & Thompson Terminology |
| | Timbre is actually a less fundamental acoustic parameter than amplitude or frequency, but it is indispensable in describing the texture or "feel" of a sound. | | | Timbre can help articulate portions of the sound track, as when it differentiates musical instruments from another. | | | When we call someone's voice nasal or certain musical tone mellow, we are referring to timbre. |
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http://www.filmsound.org/filmart/bordwell.htm
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| | Timbre: The Color of Music |
| | Timbre is caused by the fact that each note from a musical instrument is made up of more than one sound wave. | | | Summary: For grades preK-5, an introduction to the basic element of music known as "color" or "timbre". | | | One of the basic elements of music is called color, or timbre (pronounced "TAM-ber"). |
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| | Timbre-- History of Jazz |
| | This is not to suggest that classical music doesn't manipulate timbre to vary musical expression, only that it doesn't explore its potential as fully as in jazz, where the need to communicate spontaneously encourages musicians to avail themselves of every kind of musical trick to convey emotion and hold the listener's attention. | | | The use of unusual sounds for expressive purposes is called timbre variation, and its ubiquity in jazz reflects the influence of African-American folk culture. | | | By contrast, Western classical music's conventional pedagogy insists that an ideal sound exists in the instrument itself, which the student--the would-be opera singer or concert violinist--is obliged to master. |
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~skd9r/MUSI212_new/assignments/concepts_timbre.html
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| | His sample was comprised of 186 music professors, music supervisors, music teachers, and university band members. | | | Each of the derived synthesized timbres is intended to represent the timbres of the following brass and woodwind music instruments: | | | Because the melody is the same and the musical expression held constant for every timbre, Gordon maintains that timbre is the only factor that changes in each test item. |
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http://www.rider.edu/~vrme/articles5/kuhlman
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| | Helmholtz, [8], was the first person to describe musical timbre as a property of the spectral components of the sound. | | | This temporal complexity was reflected in new studies in the analysis and synthesis of sound, based on frequency 'tracks' and their temporal evolution. | | | The first axis had a psychophysical correlate in the spectral energy distribution of the sound. |
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http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~mkc/mitpress/node2.html
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| | SoundStage! Equipment Review - Timbre TT-1 DAC (07/1996) |
| | Timbre owners are often zealous about their music. | | | With the Timbre, you can get a palpable sense of the recording venue--hall or studio. | | | This may be an unorthodox comparison, but as an individual link in the audio chain, the TT-1 reminds me of the CAT Signature preamp (which is certainly deserving of state-of-the-art status) in that both suspend belief--make me forget about the circumstances behind the sound. |
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| | timbre -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | An orchestra is an assembly of musicians who play a wide range of instruments: strings ranging in tone and timbre from the violin to the double bass; woodwinds from the piccolo to the double bassoon; brass from the trumpet to the tuba; and percussion of many shapes and sizes. | | | The amplitudes of the various spectral components partially determine the tone quality, or timbre, of the instrument. | | | The electric piano is one of a number of instruments that have gained in popularity in recent times. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9072504?tocId=9072504
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| | Improving Timbre Similarity: How high's the sky? |
| | We can now use these Gaussian models to match the timbre of different songs, which gives a similarity measure based on the audio content of the music. | | | Conversely, small variations in timbre will not affect the timbre quality of a music title, considered in its globality. | | | The second motivation is that timbre similarity is a very natural way to build relations between music titles. |
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http://journal.speech.cs.cmu.edu/articles/2004/3
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| | Timbral Analysis & Orchestration |
| | Through the use of formant analysis, acoustic instrument sounds and combinations of instrument sounds can be classified on a vowel scale in a very analytical way. | | | Although these terms do have meaningful correlations to sound, they are still very subjective and do not offer a systematic method for timbre classification. | | | The fricative vocal sounds provide a system for describing attack, and non-tonal musical elements. |
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http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~jmccarty/255.htm
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| | Erik's Rants and Recipes! |
| | The example I gave of the problems of notating timbre is that of transcribing the solos of the great jazz saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders. | | | I have thought of an example where timbre is of utmost moral importance: the absolute, unqualified evil of playing Scarlatti or Bach on the piano. | | | I don’t think that this system would be effective to notate music for reproduction, but would be a good way of analyzing already recorded sounds, such as jazz solos. |
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http://eriksrant.blogspot.com/2003_05_04_eriksrant_archive.html
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| | Acoustic Guitar Central: Aging a guitar with vibrations |
| | So far, the results on the guitars Timbre Tech has shaken seem to indicate that the most noticeable results are on newer, stiffer instruments—just the ones in need of the most aging. | | | I have known several guitar makers who have put new instruments next to stereo speakers, playing music into the soundboxes for a week or two before shipping the guitars to customers. | | | There is not enough data yet to come to any conclusions about different effects with the different woods commonly used on acoustic guitars. |
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http://www.acousticguitar.com/Gear/advice/vibration.shtml
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| | slant // magazine.com: Music Review - Sophie B. Hawkins: Timbre |
| | The result is a strange palette: both dark and colorful, haunting and uplifting, Timbre is a middleground between the brilliant complexities and rawness of her debut, Tongues & Tails and the radio-friendly pop of Whaler. | | | Hawkins parted with Sony in 2000, and the album has been re-released on her own Trumpet Swan Records in hopes of giving it a new and much deserved life. | | | The final track, "The One You Have Not Seen," features a raspy vocal reminiscent of Stevie Nicks, and closes with a crescendo of instrumentation played solely by the multi-talented Hawkins. |
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http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=85
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| | Dictionary.com/timbre |
| | n : (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" [syn: timber, quality, tone] |
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| | Sophie B. Hawkins : Timbre - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | She has crafted two rewarding albums prior to Timbre, yet this may be her best yet. | | | Her third album, Timbre, explores even greater territory, even if it's in subtle ways. | | | Certain quirks are self-evident upon an initial listen -- the beatnik pretensions of "The Darkest Childe," which ultimately sinks under its own poetic weight -- but the genuinely intriguing moments, such as the weirdly exotic instrumentations and evocative lyrics, only appear upon repeated spins. |
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| | Amazon.com: Timbre: Music: Sophie B Hawkins |
| | Timbre's songs are almost all moon-eyed midtempo ballads, with sexed-up lyrics vague enough that they're open to pretty much any interpretation. | | | Timbre has some of her best songs "No Connection", "Strange Thing", "32 Lines", "Mmm My Best Friend", "The Darkest Childe" and "Lose Your Way." The greatest feature Sophie has is that she doesn't sound like Alanis Morissette, Paula Cole, Fiona Apple, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Jewel, Joan Osborne or Tracy Chapman. | | | We don't have to hear her beautiful music played to death on the radio. |
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| | Western music is one of several separate, highly developed musical cultures, each of which has its own specific theoretical base that encompasses, among other things, its own system of tunings and scales, its preferred timbres (tone colors), its particular approach to musical form, and its characteristic musical textures. | | | Although music involves sounds of all kinds and although there are no sounds that can be described as inherently unmusical, musicians in each culture have tended to restrict the range of sounds that they will admit. | | | Good music has unity to satisfy a listener's ear and variety to maintain interest. |
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| | Timbre |
| | Understanding timbre involves the study of physics and the examination of sound waves and frequencies of sound. | | | The pace at which music moves, based on the speed of the underlying beat. | | | Pitch, Temperament and Timbre from the Dolmetsch Music Theory Website - http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory27.htm |
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| | www.myspace.com/timbre |
| | "Timbre" started as very original solo act, made up of Timbre Cierpke, a harpist and vocalist, and has been evolving with the addition of siblings Tenor (piano), Tetra (bells, vocals) and Treble (cello). | | | She has since recorded, collaborated, and/or toured with several bands, including mewithoutYou, Anathallo, Cool Hand Luke, Aireline, Foxhole, Goodnight Cinema, Hundred Year Storm, and others. | | | Timbre on tv - Sunday march 26 (view more) |
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| | Timbre Music: Men's Choral Ensemble in Minneapolis & Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| | Timbre Music has received a $1,000 grant from the Best Buy Children’s Foundation. | | | While we have all the singing parts covered, we're looking at adding more music to the program and might be able to accommodate another singer. | | | Timbre just completed auditions for our joint Jazz Concert in early June with two of the Twin Cities' hottest performers, Lori Dokken and Erin Schwab. |
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http://www.timbremusic.org
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Timbre [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics]: Music |
| | Adversity usually brings out the best in artists; and Timbre, the third album from Sophie B Hawkins is no exception. | | | After a protracted struggle to release this collection of sumptuously arranged, love-swept songs in the exact form she desired, some of which were written as long ago as 1996, Hawkins has issued Timbre on her own label. | | | Top of Page : Timbre [Enhanced] [Explicit Lyrics] |
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| | With musical instruments, timbre is a function of the range in which the sound has its | | | relations between them, combine to give every sound its distinctive tonal quality or timbre. | | | The same applies with speech, where timbre is the basic quality which allows one to distinguish between different voices, just as between different instruments or other sounds. |
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| | Timbre Project |
| | to the Timbre Project: tracks from Free Souvenirs, or tracks from the recent Ruining Perfectly Good Songs | | | A new album is on its way - Fall 2005! | | | See a running list of who reviewers think Timbre Project sounds like |
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| | Karlheinz Stockhausen Quotes |
| | Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. | | | A, An, And, Become, By, Composed, Compress, Either, Extent, Formal, Found, I, Important, Is, Longer, Made, Music, Myself, Of, Or, Other, Process, Rhythm, Such, That, The, Timbre, To | | | Become, Becomes, Composed, Compress, Either, Extent, Formal, Found, Important, Longer, Made, Music, Myself, Other, Process, Rhythm, Sections, Subdivisions, Such, Timbre |
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| | Amazon.com: Timber Timbre: Music: Whistlebinkies |
| | Timber Timbre is another outstanding recording following closely in the footsteps of their 1996 album, A Wanton Fling. | | | I was thrilled to find this new album by the unfortuntely not-so-well-known Whistlebinkies! | | | Beautiful Scottish airs, reels and songs, including a surprising adventure into a set of traditional Chinese tunes -- played on pipes, of course. |
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| | Dolmetsch Online - Music Theory Online - Pitch, Temperament & Timbre |
| | It has been found that if the onset is removed from recordings of sounding musical instruments it become much more difficult to distinguish one from another. | | | External factors, too, can influence 'timbre' - for example, if an instrument moves in a room relative to the listener. | | | To summarise, timbre is the spectrotemporal pattern of a generated sound indicating the way the energy in the system is distributed between different harmonics or frequency components and the way that distribution is changing over time. |
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| | Nine Components of Sound |
| | Timbre is that unique combination of fundamental frequency, harmonics, and overtones that gives each voice, musical instrument, and sound effect its unique coloring and character. | | | The basic frequency and its resultant harmonics determine the timbre of a sound. | | | The greater the number of harmonics, the more interesting is the sound that is produced. |
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| | Rykodisc Catalog - Timbre - Sophie B. Hawkins |
| | Rykodisc's re-release of Sophie B. Hawkins' third album, TIMBRE, includes a | | | From the woman who wrote the hit singles "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" | | | and "As I Lay Me Down" comes the re-release of TIMBRE on Rykodisc, via |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Timbre |
| | Before mass media made it possible to share music worldwide, most musical cultures could be identified through several practices. | | | Timbre, quality of a sound that distinguishes it from others of the same pitch or volume. | | | Timbre can be considered the texture or color of a sound. |
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| | Kimber Kable |
| | Like the natural distinguishing sound of a musical instrument, so is the performance of the Timbre™ interconnect; distinctly transparent, full bodied and harmonically complete. | | | Single-ended termination features the latest version of the high performance Ultraplate™ RCA type connectors. | | | Timbre™ Balanced utilizes "studio grade" XLR type connectors with silver plated contacts. |
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| | Timbre Unlimited |
| | Timbre Unlimited manages the southeast's finest producers, all of whom are also versatile engineers, songwriters, and musicians. | | | From project solicitation to contract negotiation and day to day production coordination, Timbre Unlimited guides its producers, engineers, and mixers through all aspects of their careers. | | | Please use the navigation to the right to learn more about the Timbre Unlimited roster, and to hear current production reels. |
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| | Timbre Hollow |
| | "Timbre Hollow" is the debut album by Threnody Ensemble -- a new chamber group founded by guitarists Erik Hoversten (formerly of A Minor Forest), Dave Cerf and Dominique Davison. | | | Incorporating into their compositions elements of improvisation, what is most striking about these pieces is Threnody Ensemble's use of non-Western instrumentation and techniques (hocketing, droning, etc.) in combination with more typical chamber instruments: Indian, Indonesian, and Cuban elements are all apparent but not overt. | | | ThaRoman (formerly Valerie White) Part II ThaRoman (formerly Valerie White) Part III |
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| | Search Results for timbre - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument, voice, or other... | | | Unlike a painting or a piece of sculpture, which are compositions in space, a musical work is a composition dependent upon time. | | | The string quartet has long been considered one of the greatest challenges to the composer because the contrast to be achieved by changing from one type of instrument when writing for a full... |
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| | Timbre-streams (PS45000 ) |
| | The wonderful 1979 review by Steve McAdams and Al Bregman - "Hearing Musical Streams" published in Computer Music Journal (vol. | | | > (These timbre differences are very easy to hear.) > More elaborate bowing-bound two-timbre games can > be found at several spots in the Bartok Violin Solosonata > (to stick to that instrument). | | | 155-184) explored the influence of many types of stimulus changes, (many of which would be construed as timbre changes) on segregation of interleaved melodies. |
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| | Amazon.com: All Products Search Results: Timbre |
| | to choose the spectrum or timbre of the sound (the tone... | | | Inmortalizan Obra de O'Gorman y Saavedra.(emisión de timbre postal; diseño de biblioteca universitaria; México)(TT: Immortalizing O'Gorman and Saavedra's... | | | TEMA DOS MIL.(año dos mil; timbres conmemorativos)(TT: Subject two thousand.)(TA: year two thousand; commemorative stamps)(Columna) : An article from: Epoca [HTML] |
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| | timbre ridge lake |
| | Webster's dictionary defines Timbre as the "sound of a bell", or "characteristic quality of sound", but sound is the last thing you'll hear when visiting this beautiful 100 acre lake - unless it is the honk of geese or the cry of an osprey. | | | A woman shows off one of the trout which were released in March 2002. | | | Woody structure was added to the lake to improve fisheries habitat in 2000 and 2001. |
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| | What is timbre? |
| | Computer music is capable of creating any rolloff desired, and so harmonic sounds that have equal energy in their upper partial compared to their lower one are often characterized as being "buzzy." Noise with equally strong higher-frequency components is characterized as being more "hissy." | | | Finally, instruments do not radiate their spectra equally in all directions (see the excellent diagram of the radiation pattern of a cello in Huber-Runstein, pg. | | | Though highly influence by the intervallic distance between pitches, if a series of tones is played rapidly enough, they will merge into a single timbre in a process called fusion. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~emusic/acoustics/timbre.htm
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| | Timbre depends on the relative strengths of the components of different frequencies, which are determined by resonance. |
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