sonority
sonorousness

The sonorities of the old instruments make a great difference here.

The songs had a better production and care with the sonority.

They will also have to learn how to better balance sonorities in the auditorium.

The wind sonorities often came laden with a sense of struggle.

The lyrics are very personal, and choose meaning over sonority.

In other words, the sonority has to fall toward both edges of the root.

The performance I went to left lots of visual wrong notes and bad sonorities for all to see.

The final piece returns to a similar character and sonority as the first movement.

This album brought a different sonority compared to the two previous works.

The result was an irrational but compelling mix of sonorities.

Note the beautiful sonority achieved at the end of this composition.

He must have pondered every gesture, sonority and color to get it just right.

Two works could hardly be more different in sonority, texture and gesture.

The faster later movements went much better, and with glistening sonorities.

"He has the ability to produce very powerful sonorities."

He appreciated very much the sonority and the music of the Telugu language.

But the fact that he played by pinching lacked sonority.

Yet for all that easy power, the sonority never becomes crude, blasting or out of control.

The song has rock sonorities, particularly the refrain which is played on guitar.

Amid the roiling sonorities here, they could scarcely be heard.

She claims she has to do this to get maximum sonority.

In his defense, orchestral sonorities suffered more than the voices from the sound system.

They, like the unison sonorities, can sound more awkward than emphatic.

Harmony is the study of vertical sonorities in music.

The sonority of a sound is its relative loudness compared to other sounds.

The thunder was re- echoed among the rocks with a grand sonorousness.

In her reluctant political career, Dagny had often needed to speak with more sonorousness than directness.

But distended vents of nostrils, tubes of sonorousness.

Thereby the sound is adjustable to greater sonorousness, with longer reveberation for classical music and shorter reveberation for rhythmic music.

Shannon, who has come to perceive God as "a senile delinquent," has been indelibly stamped with Richard Burton's majestically weary sonorousness in the film version.

They are color, luster, opacity, transparency, hardness, sonorousness, density, crystalline form, solubility, capability of osmotic diffusion, vaporization, boiling, fusion, etc.

Philip Sherburne of Spin stated that The Knife have "never sounded more in tune with the materiality of sound or the sonorousness of the physical world."

But in truth, Burton's characterization, all brooding sonorousness and whiskey-rotted virility, was more out of Malcolm Lowry or Graham Greene than Tennessee Williams.

Besides, the literary narration, the way of telling the story, the style, the sonorousness of the phrases, [and] the composition are all just as beautiful and interesting as the events that unfold.

Aware that these Irish peasants have died, as he puts it, "in the dark," Dixon is also aware of both the sonorousness of his wordplay and the excitement it gives him to use it.

Le Monde, the country's most respected daily, suggested that the North American media had become overexcited about the figure skating controversy by giving an "unprecedented sonorousness" to a dispute over a fractional score difference.

On arriving at the end of one of these gloomy caverns, extending several hundred feet into the interior of the mountain, he was surprised to hear a deep rumbling noise, increased in intensity by the sonorousness of the rocks.

He commutes to New York City to teach at Hunter College, where he is a Distinguished Professor; there is no doubt from his tone that the title is capitalized, but then he immediately mocks the sonorousness.

He would refer any mineral to its proper place among the six hundred [l] elementary substances now enumerated, by its fracture, its appearance, its hardness, its fusibility, its sonorousness, its smell, and its taste.

The lighting, by Pat Collins, bathes it all in a deep blond glow and the rich costumes by Linda Fisher - in browns, deep reds and the occasional, offsetting aqua - complete a color scheme of notably satisfying sonorousness.

In "Buy One Get One Free," two prostitutes solicit a customer with rhyming doggerel; it shows off Silverstein's virtuosic gift for wordplay, but the gag wears out and the sonorousness of line endings (virginity/vicinity, effrontery/in front of me) grows treacly.

While professing to treasure that sound, both conductors sought to temper it in certain repertory with qualities more valued by other orchestras, often at the expense of overall sonorousness and color: clean, crisp rhythmic articulation; lean, pliant melodic line; and a general versatility of style, with the sound changing to suit different composers.

At last he entered into a long, and I have no doubt a very learned and eloquent exposition of the history and nature of the "taboo" as affecting this particular case; employing a variety of most extraordinary words, which, from their amazing length and sonorousness, I have every reason to believe were of a theological nature.