Sonority

He employed extremes in sonority and revels in distortions and interruptions, often through the ironic use of recognizable fragments from the everyday world. ❋ Leon Botstein (2010)

He employed extremes in sonority and reveled in distortions and interruptions, often through the ironic use of recognizable fragments from the everyday world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Phonic and emphatic before actively phatic, making noise before contact, the monosyllabic sigh at the core of all Romantic sonority is a phonic surge before it can be coded as a monosyllabic signal in some discursive circuit with the ❋ Unknown (2008)

For Pfau, this model offers an experience of music in which its "sheer sonority is said to absolve us from the contingent" — from the world of representation as we know it in modernity. ❋ Unknown (1999)

No longer considered is the material and tonal specificity of music as "sonority" (Klangbild) as it is shaped by countless decisions in the area of orchestration, instrumentation, tonal color, to say nothing of the innumerable contingencies that shape a given musical performance. ❋ Unknown (1999)

The Early Music movement has enriched musical life today, but its basic philosophy as it is lucidly exposed in every paragraph of Bilson's letter is an attempt to impoverish it, to stimulate a sense of deep satisfaction with a single kind of sonority, and a single style of interpretation. ❋ Bilson, Malcolm (1990)

For the last thirty-six years poor France had been afflicted with all sorts of pernicious things: that "sonority," the tribune; that hubbub, the press; that insolence, thought; that crying abuse, liberty: he came, and for the tribune, he substituted the ❋ Victor Hugo (1843)

His instrument (an old classical guitar that he calls "Trigger") is famous for the hole he has worn into its face by decades of picking, and its distinctive twang has the same kind of sonority as the sharp nasal sound of his voice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This instrument has rapidly become a legend, and is still used today, altough samples have replaced the real thing so that very often music producers use huge sample libraries or hardware keyboards / workstations to achieve this kind of sonority, and often the result is a cold and 'dead' sound, with no vitality, no warmth, nothing that even compares to the unpredictability and genuineness of the real thing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rather than the warm, deeply upholstered sonority that a German or Italian quartet strives for, the Debussy's sound has almost more air than tone in it - fragrant, evanescent and sighing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This particular example is not chosen for its sonority, though it appears to be. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Except for an occasional tossing back and forth of a particular sonority and for the wide spread of the percussion instruments, the performance might have come from a single group as far as the acoustics were concerned. — ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

Sonority, the "uninterrupted flow of air and vibration of the vocal folds," sends a similar message: L'Oréal has high sonority; Craftsman does not. ❋ Daniel Akst (2011)

The duo's music moves and warms us through its unique blend of the cello's sonority and the kora's harp-like ringing tones. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2011)

Later, Liszt wrote, "The new Steinway grand is a glorious masterpiece in power, sonority, singing quality and perfect harmonic effects, affording delight even to my old piano-weary fingers." ❋ Byron Janis (2011)

Then there's I Vow to Thee My Country, which ticks the box marked "mournful sonority" but, again, presents problems when it comes to the words. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"There's nothing more joyous," says Mr. Tritle, "than seeing the thrill on the faces of new amateur singers, like those in the Oratorio Society, when they first take part in that sonority." ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

Part of its allure resides in the comforting sense of community and physical pleasure one feels in the midst of a vibrant sonority of massed voices. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)

Everything is entirely tonal, the harmony stable, the sonority rich and satisfying. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I'm sonorous of you. ([I'm proud of you]). ❋ Tree Uprooted (2023)