Tone colour

Question 1

What can you talk about in terms of Tone colour?

Answer 1

• What is the instrument made of
• Size of instrument
• Register of music
• How its being played
• Type of instruments used – ensembles
  (wind ensemble, brass band, string orchestra A percussion band A fife and drum band, drum corps.)
• Woodwind, brass, saxophones, percussion, string
• Chordophone, aerophone, membranophone, idiophone
• Blaring, explosive, thunderous, forceful, robust, powerful, quiet, gentle, weak, brittle,
• Connect with how its being played – this is why it sounds e.g. brittle.