 Klang (music)

In music, klang (also "clang") is a term sometimes used to translate the German "Klang", a highly polysemic word.Technically, the term denotes any periodic sound, especially as opposed to simple periodic sounds (sine tones).In the German lay usage, it may mean "sound" or "tone" (as synonymous to "Ton"), "musical tone" (as opposed to noise), "note", or "timbre"; a chord of three notes is called a "Dreiklang", etc.