timbre

Noun
  1. (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound) (synset 104994869)
    "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
    referred to in: music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
    is a type of: sound property - an attribute of sound
    subtypes:
    • harmonic - any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
    • resonance - the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities
    • color, coloration, colour, colouration - the timbre of a musical sound
    • nasality - a quality of the voice that is produced by nasal resonators
    • plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy - having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
    • shrillness, stridence, stridency - having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound
    • register - (music) the timbre that is characteristic of a certain range and manner of production of the human voice or of different pipe organ stops or of different musical instruments
    same as: quality, timber, tone

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