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All About Timbre

TIMBRE

In music, the term “timbre” is used for the quality of a musical note or sound that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices or musical instruments. Timbre is also known in psychoacoustics as tone quality or tone colour. There is no rating scale on which timbre can be measured, unlike pitch and loudness, which can be rated on scales from “high” to “low”.(i) The commonly quoted American National Standards Institute formal definition of timbre reflects this: “Timbre is that attribute of sensation in terms of which a listener can judge that two sounds having the same loudness and pitch are dissimilar".(ii) In other words, two sounds that are perceived as being different but which have the same perceived loudness and pitch differ by virtue of their timbre.
Timbre plays an essential role in musical composition and performance. I would like to unfold this with the example of Claude Debussy, one of the most prominent figures working within......


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