Learn Credit concepts - Timbre
| Baritone | Counter Tenor | Mezzo Soprano | muted | Con sordino | Glissando |Double Stopping | Flutter Tonguing | Arco | Pizzicato | Col Legno | Tremolando | Tremelo | Vibrato | A Cappella | Register | 12 String Guitar | Slide Guitar | Fretless Bass | Sitar | Tabla |
| A male voice with a range in between the Bass and Tenor voices. Listen to an excerpt from an English art song. | ||
| A Male Alto voice,most often used in Baroque and renaissance music. Listen to an excerpt from Handel's 'Messiah | ||
| Listen to an excerpt of this middle range female voice with a timbre half way between soprano and alto. | ||
using a device which reduces the volume or alters the sound of an instrument. Con sordino means with a mute. Senza sordino means without a mute. The excerpt has muted strings and muted trumpets. |
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The Italian term for 'with a mute'. See above and listen to a different excerpt played by strings |
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Sliding from one note to another, taking in all the notes in between where possible. Listen to the glissandi in the trombone solo in this excerpt. |
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Listen to an excerpt of the playing two notes at the one time on an Orchestral string instrument such as a Violin or Viola. The excerpt is played by a solo violin. |
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Very fast articulation of the tongue when creating sound on a wind instrument. Listen to an excerpt. |
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| With the bow, i.e.playing a violin or other string instrument. | ||
| Plucking strings. the excerpt is of plucking strings on an Orchestral string instruments as they accompany voices. | ||
| In string playing, using the back or wood of the bow. | ||
| Trembling, quivering. See Tremolo | ||
| Term for the rapid up-and-down movement of a bow on a stringed instrument creating a restless. agitated effect. The rapid repetition of two notes at least a 3rd apart played on piano, string or woodwind instruments. | ||
A rapid but minute fluctuation in pitch to give an expressive quality to a note. Listen to an excerpt played by a solo violin playing double stopping with Vibrato. |
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| Unaccompanied part singing e.g. choir performance, in harmony without accompaniment. | ||
| The area of pitch used by a particular voice or instrument. Listen to a Baritone voice singing in its middle register, ie the middle of the voice. | ||
| A guitar often used in folk music which has 12 strings is larger in size than an ordinary acoustic guitar and gives a fuller sound | ||
| Associated with American Country and Western Music, Hawaiian music and is created by sliding a metal bar along the strings rather than using fingers to stop notes on the frets. | ||
| A Bass Guitar without frets allowing the player to play in a similar way to a String or Double bass player. This can allow for glissandi along strings, not possible on a normalbass guitar. | ||
| An Indian string instrument. | ||
An Indian drum which normally accompanies a Sitar performance. |