Timbre

Timbre in origin is a term of the French musicological school of the 20th century, the scientific tradition of R. Rollandi-Caussin. First used in his book “The Musician and the Public” (1902) as part of the concept of “musical style”. The original meaning of this word is stress, intensity, sonority. Later, timbre began to denote the quality of sound based on the material (woodwind, drums, brass, strings, keyboards,