sonority
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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
By the end, as Marnie sings “I’m free!” in upward-vaulting intervals, she is accompanied by an intricate, vital new sonority of piccolos, celesta, harp, and bowed crotales.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
The most gravity-defying songs in this new bunch — “Diamonds,” “I Need Mo” — might be the most tuneful of his career, and at times, his sonority floats in perfect parallel to his lyrics.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2018
They are particularly appealing in the upper register, largely because they minimize falsetto, thus achieving what Mr. Paseltiner called “a trumpet-like” sonority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2018
Continuous sonority must be maintained from the first phrase to the last.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
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
But theirs was a daring venture at a time when most listeners preferred string quartets, with their even sonorities and vast repertory, for intimate chamber concerts.
From New York Times ● May 6, 2023
In The Times of London, Fisher wrote that Hrusa’s conducting of “Lohengrin” “cannily distills the eeriest sonorities of the score, highlighting its bleak beauty.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 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
