Sentence examples for the overtone from inspiring English sources

This is known as the overtone or secondary hue bias.

The overtone of acting is play and fun, not work.

The middle note comes from much higher in the overtone series.

The album, originally titled "Twenty-Four Songs," was first released in 1954 on the Overtone label.

Moreover, the overtone of honeymoon is a wicked set-up for threats of rape.

Moreover, the overtone of honeymoon is a wicked setup for threats of rape.

When I go to a concert, it is to absorb the music and sound, most specifically the overtone series.

One step beyond early Philip Glass and Rhys Chatham, this was Minimalism as punk-rock provocation, played at penetrating volume to maximize the overtone fog.

Until the end of the 19th century, tuning of their partials (component tones in the overtone series) was not seriously undertaken and so lacked uniformity.

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.

After all, the lower end of the overtone series supplies the building blocks of Western music — the octave, the fourth, the fifth, the major third.