timbrally
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]timbrally (not comparable)
- (music) With regard to timbre.
- 1984, Carol Gertrud Isaac, Three compositions: Perimeter drive, A quartet, Shot?, page v:
- Perimeter Drive explores the potential for a single instrument to function timbrally, harmonically, and rhythmically as a multiple resource.
- 2015 December 8, “Colour Association with Music Is Mediated by Emotion: Evidence from an Experiment Using a CIE Lab Interface and Interviews”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The first represents the degree of variation of successive harmonic peaks in the spectrum (this would indicate a timbrally rich music); the second, the relative strength of a tonal centre (e.g. a stable, predictable music); and the third, the degree of minor-to-major tonality, so that a higher value is ‘more major’ (see [30 ], p. 112, 127, and 129).