Tone Colour

Tone colour refers to that aspect of sound that allows the listener to identify the sound source or combinations of sound sources. What are the qualities of the sound?

Device	Song	Artist	Time of Event	Listen Now	Album	Publisher/Label	Explicit Lyrics
Acapella	Wayfaring Stranger Submitted	Ed Sheeran	A great example of adding extra layers through the use of a looping device	YouTube	Unknown	Unknown	N
Vocals – Soprano (Non-classical)	Genie In A Bottle	Christina Aguilera		YouTube	Christina Aguilera	RCA	N
	Do Re Mi	Julie Andrews		YouTube	Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ‘The Sound of Music’		N
	Wuthering Heights	Kate Bush		YouTube	The Kick Inside	EMI	N
	Fantasy	Mariah Carey		YouTube	Daydream	Columbia	N
	Songbird	Eva Cassidy		YouTube	Songbird	Blix Street	N
Vocals – Alto (Non-classical)	Someone Like You	Adele		YouTube	21	XL	N
	Rehab	Amy Winehouse		YouTube	Back To Black	Island	N
	Who Knew	Pink		YouTube	I’m Not Dead	LaFace	N
	You And I	Lady Gaga		YouTube	Born This Way	Streamline, Interscope	N
	My Baby Just Cares For Me	Nina Simone		YouTube	Little Girl Blue		N
	The Look Of Love	Diana Krall		YouTube	The Look Of Love	Verve	N
	If I Ain’t Got You	Alicia Keys		YouTube	The Diary Of Alicia Keys	J	N
Vocals – Tenor (Non-classical)	Woman	Andrew Stockdale		YouTube	Wolfmother	Modular	N
	Living On My Own	Freddie Mercury		YouTube	Mr. Bad Guy	EMI/Sony	N
	Hallelujah	Jeff Buckley (Cohen)		YouTube	Grace	Columbia	N
	Whole Lotta Love	Robert Plant		YouTube	Led Zeppelin II	Atlantic	N
	Sweet Child O’ Mine	Axl Rose		YouTube	Appetite For Destruction	Geffen	N
	With Or Without You	Bono		YouTube	The Joshua Tree	Island	N
	Whataya Want From Me	Adam Lambert		YouTube	For Your Entertainment	RCA/Jive	N
	Love In An Elevator	Steve Tyler		YouTube	Pump	Geffen	N
Vocals – Bass (Non-classical)	Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm	Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies)		YouTube	God Shuffled His Feet	BMG/Arista	N
	Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe	Barry White		YouTube	Can’t Get Enough	20th Century Records	N
	Into My Arms	Nick Cave		YouTube	The Boatman’s Call	Mute Records	N
	Elvira	Oak Ridge Boys	Of ‘Family Guy’ fame! – Bass vocalists sings ‘Giddy Up Oom Poppa” break	YouTube	Fancy Free	MCA	N
	Daddy Sang Bass	Johnny Cash and the Statler Brothers		YouTube	The Holy Land	Columbia	N
	Hallelujah	Leonard Cohen		YouTube	Various Positions	Columbia	N
String Family	Eleanor Rigby	The Beatles	Throughout	YouTube	Revolver	Parlophone	N
	All I Want Is You	U2	Throughout	YouTube	Rattle and Hum	Island	N
	Viva La Vida	Coldplay	Throughout	YouTube	Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends	Parlophone / Capitol	N
String – Violin	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
String – Viola	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
String – Cello	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
String – Double Bass	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
	So Sorry	Feist	Throughout	YouTube	The Reminder	Cherrytree / Polydor / Arts & Crafts	N
String – Harp	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
	Force of Destiny Overture	Verdi	YouTube Symphony Orchestra’s masterclass for Force of Destiny Overture that allows you to hear the harp on it’s own	YouTube			N
Woodwind – Piccolo	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
Woodwind – Flute	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
	I Talk To The Wind	King Crimson	During Intro – Flute features often, playing solos and harmonies with voice	YouTube	In The Court Of The Crimson King	Atlantic	N
	Land Down Under	Men At Work	Introduction and throughout	YouTube	Business As Usual	Columbia	N
	Stairway To Heaven	Led Zeppelin	Introduction and throughout	YouTube	Led Zeppelin IV	Atlantic	N
	Moondance	Van Morrison	Throughout	YouTube	Moondance	Warner Bros.	N
	Thick As A Brick	Jethro Tull	Throughout – Epic piece of music! Listen to the whole thing!	YouTube	Thick As A Brick	Chrysalis	Y
	California Dreamin’	The Mamas and The Papas	Flute solo at about 1:15	YouTube	If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears	Dunhill	N
	Witchcraft	Wolfmother	2:15 – A pretty funky flute solo	YouTube	Wolfmother	Modular	N
	Goin’ Up The Country	Canned Heat	Intro and between each verse/chorus	YouTube	Living The Blues	Liberty	N
Woodwind – Oboe	Star Shaped	Blur	Oboe solo at 1:40	YouTube	Modern Life Is Rubbish	Food	N
	I Got You Babe	Sonny and Cher	Plays off beat during chorus	YouTube	Look At Us	Atco	N
	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
Woodwind – Clarinet	Dr Jazz Submitted	Jelly Roll Morton (Oliver)	The clarinet solo begins in it’s clarino (middle) register and is then interrupted by the piano. When it returns, the clarinet plays in it’s altissimo (upper) register	YouTube	Unknown	Unknown	N
	Life In A Glasshouse	Radiohead	Throughout	YouTube	Amnesiac	Parlophone	N
	Hotter Than That	Louis Armstrong	The clarinet takes over from the trumpet performing the main melody	YouTube	Unknown	Unknown	N
	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
Woodwind – Bassoon	Dancing Bear	The Mamas and The Papas	After “He puts his big foot down”	YouTube	The Mamas and The Papas	Dunhill	N
	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
Brass – Trumpet	Hotter Than That	Louis Armstrong	Right from the start!	YouTube	Unknown	Unknown	N
	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
Brass – French Horn	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
Brass – Trombone	Hotter Than That	Louis Armstrong		YouTube	Unknown	Unknown	N
	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
Brass – Tuba	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	An excellent example of Performing Media – Each variation of the theme is played by a different group of instruments	YouTube			N
Percussion – Various	Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra	Benjamin Britten	Timpani, bass drum, cymbals, tambourine, triangle, side drum, wood block, xylophone, castanets, gong, whip (2 hinged pieces of wood), then xylophone and triangle again to finish!	YouTube			N
Synthesizer	Yeah 3X	Chris Brown	Intro – After 4 bars of crotchets, the snare then plays quavers, semiquavers etc…	YouTube	F.A.M.E	Jive	N
Hammond B3 Organ	Oye Como Va	Tito Puente (This is the Santana version)	Heard in intro, but has a big solo at about 2mins	YouTube	Abraxas	Columbia	N
Electronic effect on voice	Alive	Black Eyed Peas	First verse of male vocals	YouTube	The E.N.D (The Energy Never Dies)	Interscope	N
	Boom Boom Pow	Black Eyed Peas	Voices are affected with various effects throughout	YouTube	The E.N.D (The Energy Never Dies)	Interscope	N (Clean Version)
	Stronger	Kanye West	Vocal in intro, then throughout as backing vocal	YouTube	Graduation	Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam	Y
Wah Wah	Bad Funk Stripe	Grinspoon	Guitar Solo	YouTube	Guide To better Living	Universal	N
Bright, clear	Black Star	Avril Lavigne	Piano during intro	YouTube	Goodbye Lullaby	RCA	N
	Loud	Stan Walker	A filter is used to slowly introduce treble frequencies during the intro	YouTube	Let the Music Play	Sony	N
Resonant, Rich	Good Feeling	Flo Rida	Electronic Break before last chorus	YouTube	Only One Rida (Pt2)	Atlantic	N
Breathy	The Voice Within	Christina Aguilera	Throughout, but particularly in lower register during first verse	YouTube	Stripped	RCA	N
Nasal	Standing On The Shore	Empire Of The Sun	Male vocal throughout	YouTube	Walking On A Dream	EMI	N