Timbre

Published: March 14, 2019, 6:36 p.m.

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Just like visual art, music is often described as having certain colors, but unlike visual arts, we don\\u2019t have an agreed upon vocabulary to describe them. In music we call those colors timbre [TAM-BER]. Timbre is one of the more elusive and intangible elements of music to describe, but we are feeling fearless, so join us for an episode that includes opera, tuvan throat-singing, bluegrass, classical, Kanye West, Cher and T-Pain.

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