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overtones

n. (plural of overtone English)

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Overtones (album)

Overtones is the second album from British electronic music artist Just Jack. The single " Starz in Their Eyes" managed to reach #2 in the UK. The US edition of the album includes a reworked version of "I Talk Too Much" featuring Kylie Minogue.

Overtones (disambiguation)

Overtones may refer to:

  • Overtone, a frequency higher than the fundamental frequency of a sound
  • Overtone band in spectroscopy, at a frequency higher than the fundamental band
  • Overtone (software), an open source audio programming environment based on Clojure and SuperCollider synthesis engine
  • Overtones (album), an album by Just Jack
  • The Overtones, a British doo-wop band
  • California Golden Overtones, a collegiate a cappella group
  • Rustic Overtones, a rock/jazz/funk band from Maine, United States
  • " Strange Overtones", a song by David Byrne and Brian Eno
  • Overtone (musical group), an a cappella group from South Africa

Usage examples of "overtones".

Even in Berkeley, political rallies during 1966 had overtones of music, madness and absurdity.

The request itself was courteous enough, she supposed, but in that affected accent it took on the overtones of oh-so-civilized contempt for the benighted neobarb among them.

Most of the basic tones were subsonic, sensed in the bones rather than the eardrums, but there were overtones and harmonics aplenty, a cacophony that somehow managed to seem both too bass and too shrill for comfort.

She juggled shields, cataloged the overtones, and searched for telltales, all at the same time.

And felt with relief a solid grounding of worry, with overtones of protectiveness and desire to help.

But it was more than an entrance hall, had the overtones of a huge sitting room with its handsome Jacobean and Tudor furniture which partially underscored the architecture of the house.

The baronial overtones were further diminished by the blaze of rosy light from the chandelier and wall sconces, and the huge fire crackling up the chimney back.

We saw a resurgence of fantasy-fat-volumed trilogies detailing marvelous exploits of gods, warriors, and wizards-a thing which is with us still, and which in recent years, as with Tolkien, has taken on the overtones of ersatz scripture.

Word that the case might have satanic overtones was prevalent enough that when the West Memphis Police Department assigned the case number 93-05-0666 to the murder file, reporters asked whether the last three digits had been deliberately chosen.