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" I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment?"
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Meaning of "timbre" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TIMBRE

From French: note of a bell, from Old French: drum, from Medieval Greek timbanon, from Greek tumpanon drum.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TIMBRE

ˈtɪmbə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TIMBRE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Timbre is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TIMBRE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Timbre

In music, timbre also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics, is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices and musical instruments, string instruments, wind instruments, and percussion instruments. The physical characteristics of sound that determine the perception of timbre include spectrum and envelope. In simple terms, timbre is what makes a particular musical sound different from another, even when they have the same pitch and loudness. For instance, it is the difference between a guitar and a piano playing the same note at the same loudness. Experienced musicians are able to distinguish between different instruments based on their varied timbres, even if those instruments are playing notes at the same pitch and loudness.

Definition of timbre in the English dictionary

The definition of timbre in the dictionary is the distinctive tone quality differentiating one vowel or sonant from another. Other definition of timbre is tone colour or quality of sound, esp a specific type of tone colour.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TIMBRE

antechamber · bedchamber · chamber · half-timber · kalimba · limba · limber · limbers · marimba · sawtimber · simba · timber · unlimber · xylorimba

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TIMBRE

timbering · Timberlake · timberland · timberline · timberman · timberman beetle · timbermen · timberwork · timbery · timberyard · timbo · timbral · timbrel · timbrelled · timbrologist · timbrology · timbromania · timbromaniac · timbrophilist · timbrophily

WORDS THAT END LIKE TIMBRE

femme de chambre · femmes de chambre · hombre · La Cumbre · ombre · robe-de-chambre · robes-de-chambre · Sambre · sombre · valet de chambre · valets de chambre

Synonyms and antonyms of timbre in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TIMBRE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «timbre» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «timbre» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TIMBRE

Find out the translation of timbre to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of timbre from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «timbre» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

音色
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

timbre
570 millions of speakers
en

English

timbre
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

लय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

جرس
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

тембр
278 millions of speakers
pt

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timbre
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সুর
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

timbre
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Timbre
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Timbre
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

音色
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

음색
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Timbre
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thanh sắc
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சுரம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

काल्पनिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

tını
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

timbro
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

barwa
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

тембр
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

timbru
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηχόχρωμα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

timbre
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

klangfärg
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

klang
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of timbre

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TIMBRE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of timbre
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about timbre

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5 QUOTES WITH «TIMBRE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word timbre.
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Theaster Gates
I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this current moment, or how objects are related to ideas of this current moment?
2
Harry Knowles
Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.
3
Leonard Mlodinow
The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.
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Cynthia Ozick
Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIMBRE»

Discover the use of timbre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to timbre and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale
Aimed at musicians and composers who use inharmonic tones and sounds, this book-and-CD package offers an analysis of the relationship between the structure of sound and the structure of scale.
William A. Sethares, 2005
2
The Orchestral Revolution: Haydn and the Technologies of Timbre
This book explores the relationship between the history of orchestration and the development of modern musical aesthetics in the Enlightenment.
Emily I. Dolan, 2013
3
Voice as a Technology of Selfhood: Towards an Analysis of ...
In this dissertation I examine the production of race through sound in general and vocal timbre in particular, and investigate how the construction of the black voice---against the backdrop of the normative white---in opera, spirituals, and ...
Nina Sun Eidsheim, 2008
4
Acoustics and Psychoacoustics
TIMBRE. A number of psychoacoustic experiments have been carried out to explore listeners' perceptions of the timbre of musical instruments and the acoustic factors on which it depends. Such experiments have demonstrated, for example, ...
David Martin Howard, Jamie Angus, 2009
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Pitman's Dictionary of Commercial Correspondence in English, ...
adhesive, F le timbre mobile ; G die Stempelmarke ; S el timbre (sello) móvil, suelto ; / la marca da bollo. — .business, F le timbre delà maison; G der Firmenstempel ; s el timbre de la casa ; / il timbro della ditta. — , postage, F le timbre-poste ; G ...
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The Elements of Color
They compose according to their subjective timbre. Though the theme changes, the chromatic expression of their paintings remains the same. Leonardo has reference to this group in his Trattato della Pittura: "How ndiculous are those painters ...
Johannes Itten, Faber Birren, 1970
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Scale and timbre
From the Hong Kong meeting - where a Chinese immigrant turned tycoon started the ball rolling by making the largest gift to a cultural organization in Canada's history - to the Centre's opening night, Scale + Timbre tells the tales and ...
Neill Archer Roan, Arthur Erickson, 2002
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Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical Sounds: The ...
(Ehresman and Wessel, 1978; McAdams and Cunibile, 1992) and studies involving modification of sounds to examine their consequences on timbre space (Grey and Gordon, 1978; Wessel, 1979, 1983), that intermediate areas of a timbre ...
James Beauchamp, 2007
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Music Perception
Unfortunately, the definitions focus on the perceptual properties without, in the end, specifying the relationship of each to the corresponding, acoustic, or physical variables, other than to say that both pitch and timbre depend primarily on the ...
Mari Riess Jones, Richard R. Fay, Arthur Popper, 2010
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Real Time Vibraphone Pitch and Timbre Classification
This paper examines the problem of classifying vibraphone notes in real-time based only on information from the instrument's acoustic signal.
Kevin Larke, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TIMBRE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term timbre is used in the context of the following news items.
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Chad VanGaalen Wins 2015 Prism Prize for Timber Timbre Video
In addition to the clips from VanGaalen, Timber Timbre and Kandle, the top 10 was rounded out by videos for songs by Rich Aucoin, Kevin Drew, Fur Trade, ... «Exclaim!, Mar 15»
2
Singaporean restaurant employs fleet of drone waiters
Duck! No, not the one on the platter, duck for the incoming drone. Singaporean restaurant-bar Timbre employed a fleet of unmanned flying drones to showcase ... «New York Daily News, Feb 15»
3
Singapore restaurant shows off autonomous drone waiters
The drone waiters, made by Singapore-based Infinium Robotics, were serving customers at Timbre @ The Substation, a live music bar and restaurant. «Tech in Asia, Feb 15»
4
Drone Waiters Fly Overhead, Debut Officially At Timbre
The future is here, as Timbre showcased the new drone waiters that will help deliver food to customers. The drones were first seen at last year's productivity ... «Yahoo Singapore News, Feb 15»
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40 flying robot servers to be deployed at 5 Timbre outlets
An Infinium-Serve flying robot taking off from a bar with a plate of snacks during a media demonstration at Timbre @ The Substation. Photo: Don Wong. «TODAYonline, Feb 15»
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NAMM 2015: Akai unveils Timbre Wolf polyphonic analogue synth …
NAMM 2015: Its Rhythm Wolf drum machine/bass synth may have had a mixed reception so far, but Akai is pursuing its strategy of releasing affordable analogue ... «MusicRadar.com, Jan 15»
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Two Timber Timbre members charting a distinct course for Last Ex
Simon Trottier, left, and Olivier Fairfield — as Last Ex — just returned from a European tour, where they opened for their other band, Timber Timbre. «Montreal Gazette, Dec 14»
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Possible treat at Timbre outlets next year: Flying robot waiters
SINGAPORE - Flying robot waiters could be serving you food at a Timbre outlet by the end of next year. The fully-automated robots are designed to travel above ... «The Straits Times, Nov 14»
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Timber Timbre Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver BC, June 10
For a band that doesn't get much tabloid coverage, Ontario's Timber Timbre were weirdly obsessive about their no photography policy, denying photo passes ... «Exclaim!, Jun 14»
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Seatwave Buys Timbre To Expand Into Live Music Discovery …
Timbre, founded in 2012, has raised some $720,000 and has seen a lot of viral interest in the app after first starting out as a hackathon project at app studio ... «TechCrunch, Jun 14»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Timbre [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/timbre>. May 2024 ».
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