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UK
/sənˈɒɹɪti/
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NOUN
- having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
How To Use sonority In A Sentence
- Lipatti s performance possesses a clarity of articulation, a depth of sonority and an energy that shine through the crackly recording.
- He employed extremes in sonority and revels in distortions and interruptions, often through the ironic use of recognizable fragments from the everyday world. A Fierce Enthusiasm
- People in that part of Bolivia have a lot of Quechua and Aymara words in their vocabulary, and ones with final falling-sonority diphthongs are pretty typical.
- The lower strings contribute a splendid richness of sonority.
- The Early Music movement has enriched musical life today, but its basic philosophy as it is lucidly exposed in every paragraph of Bilson's letter is an attempt to impoverish it, to stimulate a sense of deep satisfaction with a single kind of sonority, and a single style of interpretation. Early Music: An Exchange
- I have often found that triangle an irritant and tend to avoid this concerto, but here it gives a delicate and piquant touch to the orchestral sonority, instead of asserting itself as an obbligato second soloist.
- The prevalence of the piccolo sonority, acciaccaturas, repeated accompanimental quavers, simple tonic-dominant bassline and the use of percussion all signify alla turca.
- There may certainly be independent grounds for categorizing segments as vowels or consonants, in terms of their inherent sonority and phonological dependence, for example.
- Lipatti s performance possesses a clarity of articulation, a depth of sonority and an energy that shine through the crackly recording.
- The duo's music moves and warms us through its unique blend of the cello's sonority and the kora's harp-like ringing tones. Warm Up to a Meeting of Two Classical Minds