sonority

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

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

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

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

Perhaps he thought it meant sonority or something of the kind; or he connected it with that lovely phrase "tone-poem."

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

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 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

The overall style is lucidly Neo-Classical, at least on the surface; below that surface, though, the pieces are alive with wayward sonorities, elusive intricacies and dark subtexts.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

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