(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet"
the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"
expressing deep personal emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance"
used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; "a lyric soprano"
of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry"
relating to or being musical drama; "the lyric stage"
any of a series of musical tones whose frequencies are integral multiples of the frequency of a fundamental
a tone that is a component of a complex sound
relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration"
of or relating to harmony as distinct from melody and rhythm; "subtleties of harmonic change and tonality"- Ralph Hill
of or relating to the branch of acoustics that studies the composition of musical sounds; "the sound of the resonating cavity cannot be the only determinant of the harmonic response"
the act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates"
a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs"
a distinctive or characteristic sound; "the song of bullets was in the air"; "the song of the wind"; "the wheels sang their song as the train rocketed ahead"
the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"