"She has complete tonal control, and a massive sonority."

This allows for more tonal control of the amplifier.

Her playing is characterized by prodigious technical skills, masterly tonal control and, colleagues say, a keen musical intelligence.

But occasionally the emotions seem unresolved, the tonal control slips.

It took great tonal control not to cover the singers, but Mr. Golub managed effortlessly.

The novel "boasts pitch-perfect tonal control and humor of . . . sly subversion," Lisa Zeidner wrote here in 1999.

Kazuo Ishiguro's tonal control of Stevens' repressive yet continually reverberating first-person voice is dazzling.

Ms. McCorkle's intelligence is matched by silky tonal control and lingering phrasing that borrows from Billie Holiday without overtly copying.

"The tonal control is also astounding," he adds.

It functions in fine tonal control of the vocal cords.