Sentence examples for soft timbre from inspiring English sources

The gamelan arja is characterized by a soft timbre (tone colour) and the use of a one-stringed bamboo zither, the guntang, to accompany musical comedy and popular plays.

On ballads, like "After the Love Has Gone," from the 1979 album "I Am," White's soft timbre had the ability to comfort, the lyrics recalling what love feels like before the spark has dissipated.

On the other hand, high arousal often correlates with bright timbre and vice versa low arousal with soft timbre.

Lee Harvey of Vox praised to the song's quiet dynamics and soft timbre, stating that it "stoutly [refuses] to rock out and accordingly [retains] a helium-light touch".

According to Jockie, one of the main reasons that Chrisye was chosen to record "Lilin-Lilin Kecil" was that he had a unique voice with a soft timbre, which went well with the keyboards used; Jockie, however, felt that Chrisye's voice lost its dynamics when mixed with mellow music, which led him to give their collaboration Jurang Pemisah more of a rock feel.

To increase the emotional response to such unexpected harmonies, performers use means of emotional expression in music, such as playing the notes with increased or decreased key-stroke velocity (e.g., an accent, or an unexpectedly soft timbre).

And the softest timbres disappear into the noise of the night: the ex-nihilo opening of Beethoven's Ninth may be drowned out by crickets.

Leon says, poignantly, of Hendrix's soft vocal timbre: "It came from always being told to shut up as a kid.

The highlight of the evening was their first encore, "Torna a Sorriento" (a genuine piece of Italian song tradition), in which you could hear how good they can be: Mr. Álvarez with a slightly softer, warm timbre (and what sounded, in other selections, like a firm high C), Mr. Licitra with a ringing, bell-like tone.

The strings are said to have a "soft and profound timbre" relative to traditional gut or steel strings.

And yet, she greets the Joads most cordially: "her voice had a beautiful low timbre, soft and modulated, and yet with ringing overtones".