At worst, it has the overtone of a possible cover-up," said Arlen Specter, head of the Senate's judiciary committee.Getting to the truth will take time.
The expression coined by General Petraeus, "Afghan good enough" is hated for its patronising overtone.
Although the bitter fighting between rival nationalist groups has had little or no racial overtone as yet, the whites expect to be turned on at any time.
Thus the teaching of musical composition reflects to this day the biases of the 19th century, specifically its concern with functional harmony as the principal generative force in music a doctrine first proclaimed in the 1720s in the name of nature (as being consistent with the harmonic overtone series) by the composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Because it enables keyboard instruments to play in all keys with minimal flaws in intonation, equal temperament replaced earlier tuning systems that were based on acoustically pure intervals, that is, intervals that occur naturally in the overtone series.
Saudade, (Portuguese: "yearning"), overtone of melancholy and brooding loneliness and an almost mystical reverence for nature that permeates Portuguese and Brazilian lyric poetry.
American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone with fiery energy and passion and a big coarse sound that included honks and overtone screams.
Songs of itinerant musicians, the overtone chanting (sometimes called throat singing) of Buddhist monks, and the sounds of long horns echoing across the valleys are all an integral part of Bhutanese music.
In the mid-1960s Coltrand and fellow saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders adopted styles using soaring runs and distorted wails and shrieks, and Albert Ayler played saxophone solos using indeterminate pitches, multiphonic honks, and overtone screams.
Intuitively basing his studies on the natural overtone series, he arrived at a system of harmony that is the basis of most 20th-century harmony textbooks.
Irrespective of the fundamental frequency that is determined by the rate of vibration of the vocal cords, the air in the vocal tract will resonate at these three or four overtone frequencies as long as the position of the vocal organs remains the same.
