音色 has 通常 been used without any great consistency of meaning to refer very loosely to the 'colour' of a 声波 It has often and incorrectly been treated as a 离散 'parameter' of 声波 along with other facets such as 频率 and 音高 创造力 practice and 研究 in 電聲學/电声学 樂/乐 have revealed the unsatisfactory 本质（自然） of this imprecision and opened up the 概念 to a much more 复杂 and protean situation where 音色 exists in fragile 关系 and continua with 频率 频谱 content 声音 identity and 源 识别 This leads to a situation where in many 樂/乐 examples it is hard to separate 音色 from the 整体 樂/乐 discourse

A 一般 声音 physiognomy whose spectromorphological ensemble 允许 the attribution of an identity 源 - Denis Smalley 1994 定义 音色 - Refining 音色 当代 樂/乐 Review Vol 10 Part 2 London Harwood 学术 Publications

Ensemble of the 参数 of 音高 时值 振幅 频谱 components 动态 演变 etc which 测定（确定） the colour of a 声波 源 - Dictionnaire des 艺术 médiatiques http //www dictionnairegram org