sonority

While it’s quicker and faster than its predecessors, much of the focus seems to be on delivering emotional content rather than stopwatch performance—most obviously, in the presence and sonority of the engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

The arresting analog engineering of the Royce Hall sessions are where you witness the marvelous Mehta Sound — where each sonority has a personality, even a kind of chutzpah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023

“This silvery, fluty, bell-like sonority that seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at once.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020

Shorter’s tenor saxophone anchors the three disks with a surreal sonority, a wild cry that comes from the heart of sorrow.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2018

He read the adventures of David and the lamentations of Jeremiah, and the lofty exhortations of Isaiah for the sonority of the phrasing, the poetry and beauty.

From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

Isolated finger gestures, sometimes reaching upward, added telling small details to Mr. Morris’s choreographic momentum, which kept a heady pace with the composer’s insistently pounding, punchy sonorities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

These consisted of a Rameau/Handel program, studies in luxuriant sonorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025

On this short, vivid release, he is credited with compositions and sound design, with no mention of the bass per se, even though he still supplies plenty of low-pitched sonorities here.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

Once tinged with Debussian sonorities, the third-movement Czech dance was a dark memory of Dvorak.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022

If we could listen to them all at once, fully orchestrated, in their immense ensemble, we might become aware of the counterpoint, the balance of tones and timbres and harmonics, the sonorities.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas