Examples of sonority in a Sentence
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However, her playing in Ravel’s Left Hand Concerto was masterful, summoning ferocious sonorities in the bass register, flying to the top register and back with graceful agility.
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Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
Cecil can weave melodies into their rich, alto sonorities while simultaneously creating complementary harmonies that enhance the tapestry of their verse.
—Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
Frequently raucous and dense, textures would suddenly drop out, revealing unconventional sonorities such as cellists rapping on their instruments or the surprise ending with its tiny scratching and fluttering noises.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
Rich passages of harmonic concord suddenly split into straying sonorities, as though pulled apart by a prism.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
The rate of movement from one chord to the next was fairly consistent, providing an overall structural rhythm that ushered in the next sonority.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
Its rapturous central fugue, its searing sonority and plunging depths were all brought to gleaming life.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
Trumbore carefully assembled lines from contemporary American poets Barbara Crooker, Laura Foley and Amy Fleury, setting them in a lush harmonic language that at times recalls her teacher Morten Lauridsen’s sonorities.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
The final work on the program was the Ravel quartet, and the musicians reveled in the richly varied sonorities of this masterpiece.
—Jeremy Yudkin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Mar. 2024
Cecil can weave melodies into their rich, alto sonorities while simultaneously creating complementary harmonies that enhance the tapestry of their verse.
—Heide Janssen, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024
Frequently raucous and dense, textures would suddenly drop out, revealing unconventional sonorities such as cellists rapping on their instruments or the surprise ending with its tiny scratching and fluttering noises.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2024
Rich passages of harmonic concord suddenly split into straying sonorities, as though pulled apart by a prism.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
The rate of movement from one chord to the next was fairly consistent, providing an overall structural rhythm that ushered in the next sonority.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2023
Its rapturous central fugue, its searing sonority and plunging depths were all brought to gleaming life.
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
Trumbore carefully assembled lines from contemporary American poets Barbara Crooker, Laura Foley and Amy Fleury, setting them in a lush harmonic language that at times recalls her teacher Morten Lauridsen’s sonorities.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
The final work on the program was the Ravel quartet, and the musicians reveled in the richly varied sonorities of this masterpiece.
—Jeremy Yudkin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
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First Known Use
circa 1623, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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sonority
noun
so·nor·i·ty
sə-ˈnȯr-ət-ē 
-ˈnär-
plural sonorities
: the quality or state of being sonorous : resonance
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