Both Uses
overtone
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- There again: the overtone following through the air, third.†
Chpt 4 *
- PADDY DIGNAM: (With pricked up ears, winces) Overtones.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(overtone as in: a menacing overtone) an added quality, feeling, or appearance that is suggested or layered onto something else
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In music, overtone references extra sound frequencies layered over a main note.