Examples of sonority in a Sentence
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The rate of movement from one chord to the next was fairly consistent, providing an overall structural rhythm that ushered in the next sonority.
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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
In effect, though, its laws lead to the further abandonment of sonority and all the pleasing pattern-making and expected cadences of older music.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
McCarthy’s imagery is strikingly visual and the rhythm of his prose has a sonority to it that, when read aloud, flows like music and puts most capital P poets to shame.
—Caine O'Rear, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
Variations on a Burgundy Noel by André Fleury showed off more piquant sonorities.
—Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
The brass became a single, low-register instrument in the first movement, returning again and again to pull the argument back into dark recesses; string pizzicati and tremolos sounded out through the drapery of mass wind sonorities.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
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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
In effect, though, its laws lead to the further abandonment of sonority and all the pleasing pattern-making and expected cadences of older music.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
McCarthy’s imagery is strikingly visual and the rhythm of his prose has a sonority to it that, when read aloud, flows like music and puts most capital P poets to shame.
—Caine O'Rear, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
Variations on a Burgundy Noel by André Fleury showed off more piquant sonorities.
—Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
The brass became a single, low-register instrument in the first movement, returning again and again to pull the argument back into dark recesses; string pizzicati and tremolos sounded out through the drapery of mass wind sonorities.
—Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
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First Known Use
circa 1623, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Sonority.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sonority. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.
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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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