ADJECTIVE
- being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech
How To Use aphonic In A Sentence
- A tracheotomic case may be aphonic, hence unable to call for help. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
- His next-door neighbors are a poor family with an aphonic daughter named Zehra, who can see into the future.
- Scientists can't check Ohno's hypothesis by watching the DVD of the Y's life story, complete with quadraphonic sound.
- I even remember standing in a music store in the Twin Cities in about 1970 listening to “Whole Lotta Love” from Led Zeppelin II speed around me on the latest technological breakthrough, quadraphonic stereo. Midweek Music Moment: No Quarter: Jimmy Page & Robert Plant Unledded « A Progressive on the Prairie
- The "mystery" is in just how they combine diaphonic singing and dissonant harmonies to produce a breathtaking, otherworldly sound somewhere between the Muslim call to prayer and the Beach Boys. Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares – review
- The composer began as a Schoenberg disciple and produced a lovely piano concerto in the dodecaphonic style.
- Fifty-five years after his death, Anton Webern still leads listeners through a musical underworld where even dodecaphonic and atonal rules simply don't apply.
- One thinks of Bloch's music as having a distinctive voice, despite a fairly wide range of idiom - from neo-Romantic to neoclassical to dodecaphonic to something entirely individual.
- And the quadraphonic assemblages of images are often very beautiful.
- The "knowns" -- the gifted Galt MacDermott, the ingenious British designer John Bury, the not yet knighted Peter Hall, couldn't have had better pedigrees for approaching a piece of such ambition: there was a space ship that sailed over the orchestra; trampolines cratered into the stage to bounce us like 'low gravity' might, and a massive rocket tail would blast us all off at the show's end in quadraphonic sound. Melanie Chartoff: Spine-tingling"Spiderman"--for All the Wrong Reasons