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

“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

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

Ask the musician to give us all this with his mere pitch, and rhythm and harmony and sonority; bid him describe all this in his language.

From Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Lee, Vernon