Bobby had a metallic, edgy tone to his voice and it was as musical as a silver bell.

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He's insecure about his tone and his improvisational skills, worried about his place in a musical world dominated by Parker and bebop.

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Susan Stroman, the woman behind such Broadway hits as "The Producers, " "The Music Man, " "Contact" and the new dramatic musical, "Thou Shalt Not, " defiantly expressed Broadway's tone.

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The words and punctuation of "innocent face", he said, were merely an indication that the question should be read with a deadpan emphasis or tone, comparable with stage directions such as sotto voce or a notation on a musical score.

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And yet the Sixth Symphony does not aspire to the level of musical realism found in a work like Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique or in Richard Strauss's later tone poems.

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