When you think of healing music, what instrument or voice do you think of?\u00a0 Thing of a simple tune that you love:\u00a0 “The Gift to be Simple,” “Amazing Grace,” or a beautiful lullaby.\u00a0 Now imagine that melody sung, played by a flute, played by a trumpet or played on a violin.\u00a0 If you can close your eyes and hear it all the way through on each of those instruments, I think you would agree that each rendition has its own effect on you and its own unique sound.<\/p>\n
That’s what musical “timbre” is about.\u00a0 Each instrument or voice has it’s own unique sound characteristics.\u00a0 You can hear a favorite melody played on a unusual instrument, let’s say the bagpipes, and easily recognize that it’s not a flute or a piano, or a tuba.\u00a0 That’s because each instrument, even though playing the same tune at the same tempo, same key and same melody sounds different, depending on the timbre of the instrument chosen.<\/p>\n
Today, when you listen to music on the radio, iPod or whatever, pay attention to the timbre of the instruments and how that affects you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you think of healing music, what instrument or voice do you think of?\u00a0 Thing of a simple tune that you love:\u00a0 “The Gift to be Simple,” “Amazing Grace,” or a beautiful lullaby.\u00a0 Now imagine that melody sung, played by a flute, played by a trumpet or played on a violin.\u00a0 If you can close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[305],"yoast_head":"\n