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Enjoy listening to Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World, with an exceptional voice timbre!
Timbre is the way you can tell the difference between one character's voice from the other even though these two very different personalities are voiced by the same person or actor. Why is this? How can an instrument or voice change timbre? How do composers use timbre to express their ideas? Louis Armstrong, for one, sang and played music with an expressive force that has defied time's corrosive affects and musicologists' analytic methods. Phonetic transcriptions and audio waveforms provide useful alternatives to standard musical notation, revealing the control Armstrong exerted over vocal timbre and the specific ways in which Armstrong's phrasing and articulation contribute to his swing. Certain relationships between timbre and other musical elements, such as rhythm, dynamics, and pitch are present. By bringing into perspective the multidimensional sound image that impelled musicians to create jazz, these methods and links can improve our understanding of the specific ways in which African American musicians and their imitators have used music as an expressive language, as a repertoire, as a tradition, and as a story that they tell about themselves and their people.
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