Music
- Tone color or timbre
- Two meanings in medieval music theory:
- Color, a sequence of repeated notes in the cantus firmus tenor of a composition, in isorhythm
- Coloration, a technique of marking notes, in mensural notation
Read more about this topic: Colour (album)
Famous quotes containing the word music:
“Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Your remark that clams will lie quiet if music be played to them, was superfluous—entirely superfluous.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)