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A choice of single or duo tone colour schemes was offered.

In some organs, the pitch and/or tone colour may also be altered.

Today the scarf is more the earth tone colour beige than grey.

The exploitation of wind band tone colour combinations flavor this movement.

There is a clear preference for instruments which allow the player to control tone colour within a particular musical context.

The eyes had become stony and the tone colour of his voice had changed in an odd way.

In his very lack of tone colour, Paskutti seemed to be impatient for her answer.

This design creates extremely sensitive instruments with an unprecedented range of tone colour variations.

The preference is for instruments which can readily alter tone colour according to the played dynamic intensity.

In this instance, the intervallic relationships remain the same, but the tone colour has changed.

By making their own reeds, oboists can precisely control factors such as tone colour and tuning.

A tube that has a diameter 1/10 of its length yields a typical tone colour (see Timbre).

Ligeti use of contrapuntal devices and tone colour proved a major influence.

The frequent major ninth and major seventh intervals contribute luxurious tone colour of the piece.

On the interior side, the Asian-market Civic has contrasting two tone colour scheme.

A frill with the edges bound in a contrasting or toning colour adds a further individual touch, making the curtains a little more special.

Nonetheless, he spent much of his career exploring the spectrum of tone colour between harmonic overtones and noise.

Instantly recognized by her "arrestingly beautiful tone colour" (The Strad).

Its very distinctive timbre is easily identifiable and Wagner used this new and unique tone colour extensively.

For example, an electric guitarist could plug a single guitar into two guitar amps to create an unusual tone colour.

This similarity in the manner of sound production allows string quartets to blend their tone colour and timbre more easily than less homogeneous groups.

It is a symphonic genre by virtue of imitating orchestral tone colour, texture, and symphonic development.

According to Larry Teal, the mouthpiece material has little, if any, effect on the sound, and the physical dimensions give a mouthpiece its tone colour.

Because variety of tone colour was considered paramount, the double horn, though easier to play and more secure, was not adopted by the Viennese orchestras.

As a result, the response and tone colour are nearly unchanged from those of the open instrument, even for twin-valve bass trombones using the in-line configuration.

His tone color has the same inner life it always had.

His playing was also known for many different kinds of sounds - sometimes called tone colors.

For recordings, of course, volume is less important, but tone color remains.

Tone color and intonation are also up to the musicians.

From this followed the key discovery of what causes differences in tone color.

If there had been any tone coloring the words, the question would have become an insult.

From them I get different sounds and tone colors to produce on the piano.

The internal shape of the pipe is a major factor in tone color.

Using two different shades, one to erase the spot and then I'm going back in with more of her skin tone color.

Adjustment to these measurements is one method of affecting tone color.

The car could be ordered painted in either single or two tone colours.

Even without hearing the tone color of their experience in Spock's words, she could deduce how it would sound.

In more modern compositions, they are occasionally used for their intonation or tone color.

A choice of single or duo tone colour schemes was offered.

This type of arrangement, with its specific, light tone color, especially appealed to the French wind tradition.

You can't switch tone colors for one or two notes."

The choice of instruments, registers, and dynamics affect the overall tone color.

In some organs, the pitch and/or tone colour may also be altered.

By his own admission, he is obsessed with novel variation in both tone color and texture.

Today the scarf is more the earth tone colour beige than grey.

But by the early 1980's, musicians and listeners both hear electronic sounds as just another tone color.

"But mostly he talked with me about phrasing, tempo and tone color, not technique."

Her tone color was wonderfully varied, positively shimmering in the finale.

Granted, these are marginal, barely perceptible alterations of tone color.

Generally, a mixture of a light shade, the tone color, and a dark shade is used.