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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2018

There is, however, a vast amount of sonority and musical charm in our grand and noble language, second only to the Italian, when properly spoken.

From The Mechanism of the Human Voice by Emil Behnke

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

Since the 1990s we’ve grown accustomed to hip-hop importing and metabolizing the sonorities and techniques of jazz.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

But “Max Brown” is jazz that has imported and metabolized the sonorities and techniques of hip-hop.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023

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