sonority

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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

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2020

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

Tendler offered a focused six-minute study in sonority and its absence.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2018

He said it lost all its sonority and grandeur if modernized; and, indeed, to hear his illustration was in itself sufficient to convince.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various