plangency

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His piano sound tends to the percussive, achieving a relatively thin but tactile plangency.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2016

He was at his most captivating in the aria “Wenn der Freude Tränen Fliessen,” which he endowed with expressive plangency.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2016

In fact, her work — notwithstanding its overall plangency — could initially be mistaken for light verse.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2016

When Peter Frampton shows up with his Les Paul guitar on “Right Back Home,” his easy heat and plangency marks him as an alien life-form.

From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2012

In addition to the plangency of his chord combinations, as such, his polyphonic skill is responsible for much of the solidity of his fabric.

From Edward MacDowell by Gilman, Lawrence