Definition of "klang" []

• In musical acoustics, a tone together with all its partial tones or harmonics: opposed to a simple or pure tone. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "At times, the image shifts entirely through what Freud called klang associations, or sheer phonic similarity."
• "Having thus shown that the fundamental note is dependent upon the tension of the vocal cords -- the reed portion of the instrument -- and the quality, timbre, or "klang" upon the resonator, I will pass on to the formation of syllables and words of articulate speech by the combination of vowel sounds and consonants."
• "To the extent that those voices could on a given evening write themselves through Kafka, Kafka could experience even the ghastliest of them, even the sirens with their hideous claws and sterile wombs, even Gregor Samsa, as beauty itself: "[S] ie konnten nicht dafür, dass die Klage so schön klang" [ "They couldn't help it that their lament sounded so beautiful"] (Parables 92)."