| 单词 | sonority |
| 例句 | If we could listen to them all at once, fully orchestrated, in their immense ensemble, we might become aware of the counterpoint, the balance of tones and timbres and harmonics, the sonorities. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The wild, clashing sonorities and raw energy of the Fugue still startle, especially after the mystical Adagio Sostenuto, which Mr. Solzhenitsyn played with searching poise. Music Review: Beethoven Elegant and Beethoven Frenetic 2011-06-07T21:43:37Z It was nicely done, with some beautiful sonorities, though the piece itself is also fractionally too long. LPO/Jurowski ? review 2011-01-27T22:00:03Z While Mr. Huang draws on Chinese sonorities, he folds them into his own feisty modernist voice, with whole passages of pulsing dance music. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Below the surface, as always, Ms. Saariaho’s music teems with jagged lines, astringent sonorities and uncanny instrumental effects. Music Review: Kaija Saariaho’s ‘Émilie’ at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater 2012-07-20T23:33:07Z Ormsby Wilkins, conducting, finely judged the pulse and sonorities of these orchestrated Satie pieces. Review: American Ballet Theater’s Opening Gala 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z While it is possible to isolate certain features such as judicious use of vibrato or the sonority of native instruments such as Vienna horn or Vienna oboe, critics often resort to metaphors. The Vienna Philharmonic Looks to a New Generation 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z He cites Debussy, Ravel, Bartok and Messiaen as favorite composers, and the tonal colors and sonorities of his partitas were grounded in their legacy, particularly Messiaen. A lot riding on Hilary Hahn’s bow at Strathmore 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Tempos were a little logy, but the sonorities were gorgeous, especially in the strings, and the proportions were elegant. Music Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-12T22:16:17Z The piece shifts between stretches of quizzical sustained sonorities and impish outbursts. Music Review: Elliott Carter Memorial at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-01-15T22:48:02Z That said, the silken string playing and roast-beefy brass sonorities Dutoit elicited from the orchestra were right on the Elgarian mark, as were the solo contributions of the various principal players. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z In the first section, "Heaven," they embraced the work's formidable demands with winning virtuosity, producing rich-hued sonorities. American Youth Symphony and National Children's Chorus members rise to 'Heaven Earth Mankind' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But at that performance, I spent more time listening for those vocal icons’ familiar performance traits and quirks than I did for the sonorities made possible by Cage’s instructions. Review: Revisiting a Luxuriously Gonzo Side of John Cage 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The most gravity-defying songs in this new bunch — “Diamonds,” “I Need Mo” — might be the most tuneful of his career, and at times, his sonority floats in perfect parallel to his lyrics. Review | Shy Glizzy is bigger than ever — but he still sounds like D.C. 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z He brought expressive muscle to both Brahms scores, emphasizing rich low string sonorities and spectacular brassiness. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Trio and the Bartok “Contrasts,” his dominance of the corporate sonority was almost appalling. Review | Gould Trio near perfection in the Brahms 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Switching often among the saxophone family — not just alto and tenor but also bass and mezzo-soprano, along with that gargantuan contrabass — Mr. Robinson managed to locate a different voice and sonority for each. Music Review: Scott Robinson at Jazz Standard 2012-10-28T21:31:16Z In the second movement, “The Song Is for You,” a melancholic yet unsettled saxophone melody emerges over what Mr. Adams aptly calls “pools” of chromatically tinted sonorities. Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z Subdued, weighty, elusive sonorities spread throughout the orchestra, and spread is the right word: Mr. Eotvos has uncanny skill at giving sound a spatial dimension. Review: A Peter Eotvos Premiere and Schubert at the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Rameau was a pioneering music theorist and brilliant orchestral innovator as well as composer, and his scintillating signature sonority is that of multiple anchoring bassoons, playing in unison, often in a high register. Review: Juilliard’s Fast Takes on French Baroque 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z Ensemble sonorities in the winds and brasses were clean, if not pristine or particularly atmospheric — though Judith LeClair, the orchestra’s principal bassoon, brought gorgeously buttery foreboding to her important solo. Review: A Conductor Adds Her Name to Philharmonic Contenders 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z As the piece progressed, I especially liked the way melodic lines were played in block chords of thick, fuzzy, wonderfully diffuse sonorities. Music Review: American Composers Orchestra at Zankel Hall - Review 2011-10-16T20:08:49Z The orchestration, for a smaller ensemble, is alive with myriad sonorities and captivating colors. When Boston Ruled the Music World 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Casey James sings "It's All Over Now" Rehding: You have a nice rock'n'roll voice, with a smoky sonority that draws that listener in. The World?s Smartest ?American Idol? Fans: A Roundtable 2010-03-17T14:11:00Z But on this occasion his balancing of elements in the “Concord” — control and freedom, wildness and repose, ferocity and tenderness, clattering power and melting sonorities — was something special. Music Review: Fill-In Delivers a Muscular Pairing of Ives and Bach?s ?Goldberg? Variations 2011-03-28T22:17:36Z Remarkably, Mr. Diehl brings the same spirit to his interactions with the tenor saxophonist Stephen Riley, whose breathy sonority recalls vintage Ben Webster. Review: Aaron Diehl’s ‘Space Time Continuum’ Is a Jubilant New Album 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Sometimes the music reposes on what seems a soft, lushly diatonic chord, except certain instruments play nearly inaudible high pitches that lend sting to the sonority. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Both toy with barely audible noises, such as rubbing or scraping instruments with foreign objects, that may or may not blossom into full-fledged lush tonal sonorities. International music fest compares Latin, Asian sounds with Tambuco and Toshio Hosokawa 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z In The Times of London, Fisher wrote that Hrusa’s conducting of “Lohengrin” “cannily distills the eeriest sonorities of the score, highlighting its bleak beauty.” Jakub Hrusa Set to Lead Royal Opera House 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, there is a certain sonority to his best writing and his lush prose also gives a powerful impression of a land teeming with life. Booker club: The Famished Road 2011-01-20T13:46:07Z But the impression was also more musical, the sonority better balanced and more coherent, with less redoubling of chords and overlapping of phrases. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Memorial Day Concert 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z But the extreme lightness of sonority robbed the monumental work of nine tenths of its grandeur. Beethoven Loses to Piazzolla at the Seattle Symphony 2012-12-29T18:39:04Z Both were imaginative modernists with marvelous veins of melodic lyricism and strong appetites for folk material, thrilling sonorities and drivingly percussive rhythms. Mark Morris and Lou Harrison, a Large-Spirited Partnership 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Instead Benjamin weaves narrow lines around his singers, cradling each word, revelling in evocative sonorities. Written on Skin – review 2013-03-10T18:24:00Z His timbre and sonority are crystalline, direct, intense and deeply emotional but free from theatricality and impetuosity. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z The strings play ethereal tones, long-lingering as bits of melodic lines weave into the sonority and build slowly into radiant passages jostled with twitchy rhythms. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z The program, though planned long ago to show a range of French musical styles and sonorities, made a powerful memorial. In Paris, a Music Hall Built for Unity Offers a Stirring First Act 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z He makes the swirling busyness and tart sonorities of Berio’s “Feuerklavier” sound like a crackling blaze; he delves below the undulant grace and tenderness of Lieberson’s “Breeze of Delight” to reveal the music’s eerie undertow. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z What was most unusual is how Van Zweden’s interpretive starting point was often with a specific sonority. With his L.A. Phil program, here's what a man of mystery portends for New York 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z His Petrushka, notably beautiful, is graciously touching rather than violent or eruptive, and the clean-textured, superbly detailed playing from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales reminds us just how startlingly original Stravinsky's sonorities are. Stravinsky: Petrushka; Liadov: Kikimora, etc 2010-07-08T21:44:00Z Shorter’s tenor saxophone anchors the three disks with a surreal sonority, a wild cry that comes from the heart of sorrow. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z These scores, drastic now as then, are explorations of sonority; the piano is played, banged, tapped, twanged. Review: Merce Cunningham’s Work, on Film, Then in the Flesh 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In this style, in which timbre is crucial, the overtones created by a note are used to produce intriguing sonorities. The Week Ahead: Sept. 5 ? Sept. 11 2010-09-01T16:50:00Z Instead, the composer ingeniously weaves their rich, glowing sonorities into the sumptuous orchestral fabric. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z Alsop drew beautiful, eloquent playing from the strings, with warm sonorities and autumnal shadings. A reshuffled Baltimore Symphony Orchestra can’t quite fill the void after headliner’s exit Mr. Sun exploited the instrument’s delicate yet lush sonority with flowing legatos and characterful phrasing. Review: All Beethoven, All Evening, on Period Instruments 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The enhanced clarity is a welcome turn, making it easier to hear Mr. Carter’s scintillating sonorities, myriad instrumental colors and complex rhythmic interplay. Music Review: Elliott Carter?s Concerto for Flute - Review 2011-09-30T22:55:05Z From the start, the pianist seemed to challenge the orchestra to a musical duel, playing with concentrated energy that extended from the Steinway’s rumbling sonority to faint pinpricks of sound. Pianist Emanuel Ax, NSO woo Wolf Trap audience with Brahms 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z There was majesty, as well as subdued tension, in the slow opening of the first movement, which segued slyly into the Vivace main section, played with crisp execution and full-bodied sonorities. Music Review: Manfred Honeck Leads New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher 2013-01-05T00:58:01Z The harmonic writing, the plush orchestration, the shimmering string sonorities and the Wagnerian heft of the music carry you along. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T22:18:57Z Ms. Wolfe’s “Stronghold” is for eight double basses, with amazingly dramatic sonorities. How This London Troupe Takes You to the Heart of Dance 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Coming to a cliff overlooking the Harlem Meer, passages of shimmering sonorities were flecked with delicate harp runs and fidgety woodwinds. Over Headphones and in a Truck, the Philharmonic Stays Alive 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The second, “Simple Sugars,” is full of frenetic blips, with the instruments often playing in-sync riffs and screeching sonorities. How Should a Musician Make a Debut? Try Going Low-Key 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z Casey James sings "It's All Over Now" Rehding: You have a nice rock-and-roll voice, with a smoky sonority that draws that listener in. The World?s Smartest ?American Idol? Fans: A Roundtable 2010-03-17T14:11:00Z On this short, vivid release, he is credited with compositions and sound design, with no mention of the bass per se, even though he still supplies plenty of low-pitched sonorities here. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The orchestra, as if wary of the soloist, responds with tremulous, swelling sonorities. Review: Susanna Malkki Returns to the New York Philharmonic 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Nothing profound here, but Bates' crazy-quilt of neon-lit orchestral sonorities, peppered with freaky electronic riffs, morphs and dances to its own internal beat. Muti's 'arrivederci' for the CSO subscription season has audience clamoring for more 2011-05-13T17:51:23Z Hakim’s exciting “The Embrace of Fire” thrashed about with conflicting and echoing layers of sonorities. Christopher Candela dispels the notion that all organ music sounds the same Individual sonorities from flute, oboe and horns bloomed. Yuja Wang and the Russian National Orchestra perform in Northridge 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z The components of Cage’s Quartet in Four Parts, a 20-minute piece that explores stillness and quietude, come from a set pool of short motifs, sonorities and modal-sounding chords that appear repeatedly. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z Through some mysterious alchemy, Mykietyn's orchestral effects and resourceful deployment of sonorities added up to more than the sum of its parts. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Mr. Litton has rearranged the orchestra’s seating to create a new balance of sonority. Review: New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Blends Movement and Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The music consisted mainly of bursts of melody or of burbles, buzzes and whoops exchanged among the groups, although “Dawn” rose to an especially nice moment of massed sonority. Make Music New York in Review: One Day, a Thousand Concerts, to Celebrate Summer 2013-06-23T21:40:13Z What made his work so captivating, critics said, was its eclectic originality, propulsive rhythmic force, companionable combination of dissonance and consonance and its masterly command of sonorities from the lush to the spare. Lee Hyla, 61, Who Mixed Rock and Jazz Into Classical Works, Dies 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z But although there was a certain release in the unclogging of things, in the brighter and sharper sonorities coming through at the end, they were ultimately channeled into a giant wail. Review: An ‘Opera for Objects’ Makes Music Out of Fear 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z As the choruses alternated in a series of pungent multidimensional sonorities, individual voices engaged in fleeting contrapuntal crossfire. Chamber chorus Third Practice is a winner 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Stravinsky used the word “symphonies” in the title in the ancient sense of the word, meaning sonorities that sound together. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Russian Stravinskyat Avery Fisher Hall 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z The sheer power of Bronfman’s technique, the rapid-fire artillery of repeated notes, the cataclysmic crescendos, and the huge sonority were overwhelming. Review: Yefim Bronfman pushes boundaries of what’s possible on piano 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Rhythms are delicious, melodies charming, sonorities sensuous, and the structure absurd: it seems to contain about 20 codas. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z In 1952, the Eastman Wind Ensemble at the Eastman School of Music became a new kind of self-sufficient wind orchestra that can adjust in size and sonority. Seattle Wind Symphony to perform Sousa, Bernstein and Nirvana tribute on May 6 2012-05-03T20:20:11Z The recurring figure in Mr. Harvey’s chaconne is a series of four delicate chords, hazy and elusive sonorities with shimmering sustained tones, oscillating inner voices and rippling figures on the piano. Music Review: Juilliard’s Focus! Festival at Alice Tully Hall 2013-01-27T21:14:09Z His orchestral music is a whole mercurial world, always ready with new sonorities around the corner. John Zorn: A Portrait – review 2013-01-14T17:32:59Z But post-surgery, the heft and sonority of Voigt’s voice changed, and she spent a considerable amount of time relearning aspects of her art. Criticized for her weight, opera star Deborah Voigt speaks up 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z He isn’t aided by the score, which begins well — all ticking, chiming sonorities, building to propulsive rhythm — but arrives at a sustained bombastic intensity and stays there. Review: ‘Cool Britannia’ Shows Off Native Land’s Talents 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Soon the various players break off into short three-note melodic bits, quivering strings, fidgety rhythms and sustained sonorities that keep swelling and diminishing. Review: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Returns, With Gusto 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z Those qualities are abundantly present in this generous Kickstarter-financed collection of chamber pieces spanning 30 years; sources and sonorities vary, but inspiration and expert advocacy are consistent. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Jeffrey Mumford, Mozart, Brahms and More 2014-04-09T18:29:24Z Prized for their power and sonority, Salvi harps are played today by many of the finest soloists and orchestral musicians in the world. Victor Salvi, Who Played Harps and Made Them Too, Dies at 95 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The orchestra ably highlights the multilayered textures and intriguing sonorities of this powerful work, an example of Schoenberg’s gift for creating orchestral color using the 12-tone system. Classical Recordings: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra 2011-06-10T14:33:11Z Mr. Trifonov brought striking clarity to the wandering lyrical lines that thread through the music and savored the pungent sonorities of dense, chromatic chords. Review: A Star Pianist Finally Lets Us See Him Sweat 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Puts’s tender music for this scene of love at first sight is tinged with astringent sonorities that suggest Raymond’s inner complexities. Review: ‘The Manchurian Candidate,’ Eagerly Awaited, Has Premiere in St. Paul 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z The Memorial for Peace and Justice presents this drama of intimidation with minimum documentation and detail and maximum sonority. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z It unfolds in thick, undulating waves and piercing sustained sonorities, interrupted with fragments that appear and evaporate. Review: The Jaap van Zweden Era Begins at the Philharmonic 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z Both works are striking in their sonorities as well, and both coincidentally end with a loud, high ping. Review: Celebrating Sibelius and His Slowly Imparted Secrets 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z The appealing work features a range of sonorities and effects like dramatic pizzicatos, all vividly illuminated in a spirited interpretation by Ms. Robinson and Mr. Laredo. Music Review: Jaime Laredo, Violinist, at 92nd Street Y 2012-03-18T20:02:37Z I thought that having those two sonorities – piano and percussion – in conversation would appeal to him. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z After the murky opening measures of the music, when a chorale theme emerged, the chords were shrouded in magical mists of strings and orchestral sonorities. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z He plays long tones to get the full sonority of the recording studio. Pop: New Releases from Saxophone Players and Drummers 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z The orchestra, including a piano and an organ, was even larger for “Feste Romane,” completed in 1931, a work Respighi considered his ultimate statement in the “maximum of orchestra sonority and color.” Music Review: ‘City Noir,’ by John Adams, at Lincoln Center Festival 2012-07-13T21:21:56Z Whenever Mr. Wuorinen, with his keen ear for bracing harmony, allows sonorities to linger without all the busyness, the music becomes more mystical and dreamy. Music Review: Lyrical Cowboys In Love, On Stage 2014-01-29T09:33:49Z Ronald Thomas was the ensemble’s cellist; Li brought a wealth of sonorities to the piano part, from warm lyricism to glittery cascades of sound. Review: At Seattle chamber-music fest, a world premiere in graceful flight 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Since the 1990s we’ve grown accustomed to hip-hop importing and metabolizing the sonorities and techniques of jazz. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z It allowed the Chamber Orchestra of Europe to blossom in Brahms as deftly as it contained the magnificent sonority of the Bavarian forces in Tchaikovsky. Critic?s Notebook: A Jewel of a Spring Festival, Not Selling Out, but Still Sparkling 2011-04-20T22:16:56Z So each one demanded a large degree of self-reinvention: of experimenting with new methods, structures and sonorities. A George Benjamin Exacting Storm in Opera Comes to Mostly Mozart 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Though there is plenty of content, the manipulation of sonorities drives the music. Review: 19 Female Composers Start to Mark a Century of Suffrage 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z “Vocal lines flow from lyrical wistfulness to snappy declamations; dense big-band sonorities in the orchestra segue into lighter passages backed by a jazz rhythm section,” Mr. Tommasini wrote. The Met Will Stage Its First Opera by a Black Composer 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Long-held but shifting sonorities here suggest a barcarole as a voyage to the underworld. Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z There's not much difference between violin and viola," Zukerman says, "except for size, sonority and color of sound. Pinchas Zukerman plays viola spectacular with Seattle Symphony Orchestra 2011-02-10T20:50:07Z Below his aching lines, calm strings play strands of counterpoint that overlap into pungently mellow sonorities. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Holt essentially selected notes from Bach’s harmonies and dramatically prolonged them to make a work — less an arrangement than a radical transformation — that unfolds as a series of extremely slow, sustained sonorities. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The pianist's sonorities reached deep into the keys without turning hard or clattery, while the evenness of his leggiero playing was a joy to the ear. Andsnes' commanding Brahms lifts Muti-less CSO concert out of the ordinary 2011-02-18T16:33:00Z But the murky sounds and tense sonorities that Ms. Thorvaldsdottir creates are at once eerie and beguiling. Review: An Orchestral Odyssey Through Chaos and Beauty 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Effusive sentiment is an inherent risk of the cello, with its thundering sonorities and timbre so like the human voice. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z Frey’s Second String Quartet and Third String Quartet, his most celebrated works to date, show the bewitching power of these sonorities. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “It has a sense of mysterious drama and atmosphere, but there is also really soaring orchestral music in there, with constant time and sonority changes, and a sweeping waltz that comes and goes,” he said. Kim Brandstrup Brings ‘Jeux’ and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Marie’s solo about newfound love doesn’t match the otherworldly sonority of the Sugar Plum celesta. Review: Mark Morris’s ‘The Hard Nut,’ Tchaikovsky With Cartoon Wit and Verve 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Mostly, though, the instrument engages the vocal lines, shifting from moments of folkloric melody to passages of disorienting sonorities, or to stretches that become obsessed with a strange repeated riff. Review: A Tenor Offers a Subtle Model of Adventurousness 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z In fact, it was the combination of both the theorbo’s looks and sonority that won over the Seattle-based composer Aaron Grad. The magic lute: Baroque instrument gets electric update for world premiere 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Perdomo plays with deep sonority, rhythmic aplomb and an ear for useful dissonance. Playlist: Albums by Rosie Thomas, Punch Brothers, Luis Perdomo 2012-02-12T15:54:38Z The overall style is lucidly Neo-Classical, at least on the surface; below that surface, though, the pieces are alive with wayward sonorities, elusive intricacies and dark subtexts. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In “#2,” which concluded the set, he used a bow against the cymbals to elicit eerie sonorities after mournful passages by Ms. Makarski took on a more agitated hue. Review: Lukas Ligeti’s Disparate Interests, on Display at the Stone 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The challenge Schwarz took on was no small one: that of composing a horn trio, quite a tricky combination of differing sonorities. Review: Schwarz ushers in world premiere at Seattle's summer chamber-music festival 2010-07-29T20:33:00Z They are particularly appealing in the upper register, largely because they minimize falsetto, thus achieving what Mr. Paseltiner called “a trumpet-like” sonority. ‘Extralife’ by Darlingside Review: Folk Meets A Cappella 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Vierne's life was one of hardship, disappointment, handicap and horror, all expressed in his murky organ music full of sickly harmonies and saturnine sonorities. L.A. Philharmonic's organ series opener a celebration of firsts 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Beethoven’s Seventh, slyly quoted at one point, was a model for Shapero’s piece, which opens with an elusive Adagio, all flickering chords and sustained sonorities, that shifts into a bustling, densely contrapuntal Allegro. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Dense chords murmur restlessly, as wavering melodic lines escape from sustained, quivering sonorities and spin off, sometimes disappearing into an ether. Review: A Composer’s Mystical Music Gets the Space It Demands 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z A 31-year-old composer from Montreal, Moussa is a dazzling colorist, and his "A Globe Itself Unfolding" glowingly immerses the organ in an ocean of orchestral sonorities. Expect the unexpected on recordings of Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Composers are ever more interested in exploiting sonorities in all their forms, whether emerging from a piano or an oil drum. Making the Harpsichord Modern Again 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z The composer Meredith Monk is known for her uncanny ability to coax the human voice into sonorities both ethereal and startling. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The string writing somehow remains shimmering and transparent even when sonorities turn thick and textures gnarly. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z It nonetheless achieves sonorities, harmonies and melodies that are sometimes individual and unusually atmospheric. Review: ‘Othello’ Is Performed by the American Ballet Theater 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z There are so many possible sonorities on the modern piano that, for me, that’s perfectly fulfilling. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s account of the Bruckner stood out for the lighter textures and transparency he drew from the orchestra, the judiciously balanced sonorities and the quicksilver shifts of mood. Are Bruckner Symphonies Now the Proving Ground for Conductors? 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The harmonic language combines tart modern, milky Impressionist sonorities with echoes of modal French sacred music from earlier times. Music Review: ‘Dialogues des Carmélites,’ at Metropolitan Opera 2013-05-06T22:35:02Z Just as fascinating as the period sonorities are the touches of string portamento that Mr. McGegan seems to encourage: little scoops or swoons from one note to another. BRAHMS: SERENADES 2012-10-28T04:20:05Z Whispered and more boldly enunciated fragments of Mr. Auster’s autobiographical stories were layered surrealistically in the opening section, heralding a narrative that unfolded amid alluring instrumental sonorities and electronics. Music in Review: OLGA NEUWIRTH 2012-12-09T23:10:24Z The inclusion of the double bass darkens and enriches timbres; the additional instruments smooth and blur individual sonorities. Review: American String Project mixes things up this year, resulting in memorable moments 2010-05-21T19:16:00Z If Muti lingered rather indulgently over certain pages, it was hard to fault him for that, so glowing of sonority and rich in Italianate lyricism was the orchestra's playing. Muti's return to CSO leaves hall abuzz with the excitement of old music and new 2011-05-06T16:26:00Z This pervasively soft and self-contained music emerges in staggered phrases of sustained chords and sonorities. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z Without a staging, the performance focused squarely on Wagner’s innovative instrumental sonorities; it was a revelation made possible by the pared-down format. Dear Met Opera: Please, More Concerts Like This Berlioz 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Lustrous sound certainly matters, since the truly musical dancer will color a performance to the sonority of the orchestra. Dance Review: Kaplow?s Farewell at New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T22:14:00Z As a whole, diction was largely mushy, but then, bel canto singing in English can’t compare with the sonorities of Italian. D.C. theater’s ‘La Sonnambula’ finds its footing after an unsteady awakening 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The nine dancers of “arms that work” really do create their own rhythms over Mr. Anspach’s marvelous sonorities. Dance Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, Mark Morris Premiere 2012-11-05T22:54:53Z The orchestra closes his hymn with a fateful clang in the vibraphone, a doorbell-like sonority that announces almost every turning point in the opera. In ‘Lulu,’ the Question That Stops an Opera 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Commenting on this program, he describes both Chopin and Debussy as “inventors of sonority,” composers who “changed the way we hear the sound of the piano.” Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The Bach continues to permeate the work, which evolves in passages that swell and subside, the orchestra heaving with modernist sonorities and fitful inner voices. Jurowski Leads London Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The instruments set the mood: The piano plays thick, grating chords that split into glancing strands of delicate notes, as the violin and cello sustain tonally murky sonorities and break into soft, oscillating squiggles. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Quirky inner details and fidgety rhythmic figures broke through the sumptuous orchestra sonorities. Music Review: Vienna State Opera Presents ‘Wozzeck’ and ‘Salome’ 2014-03-02T17:51:50Z The two rode the waves of Franck’s excursions from lyricism to drama and back with a confident balance, mutually agreed-upon weight and opulent sonorities. Violinist Chee-Yun and pianist Julie Coucheron team up for a great performance Those brasses now blend into a deeply cultured overall sonority, plush and nuanced, not unlike the one Mr. Muti left behind at the Philadelphia Orchestra when he stepped down as music director there in 1992. Chicago Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and Beyond 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z Still, Slatkin turned in a decisive, vigorous reading of his own, bringing strong forward thrust and point to the jostling neo-classical rhythms while keeping sonorities properly clean and grounded. CSO goes to the mat for sub conductor 2011-01-21T17:34:13Z He conveys the sometimes brutal sonorities of the music without letting the piano sound percussive. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: John Adams, Prokofiev, Harrison Birtwistle and More 2014-03-12T20:42:17Z And if you want to create any kind of sonority or resonance within the orchestra, the notes that you usually use for that are taken by the cello. Write Me a Concerto: Yo-Yo Ma and Esa-Pekka Salonen on Their New Work 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z She does so with academic ballet footwork, but so matched to Spanish rhythms and sonorities in the music that it feels like a folk performance. Dance Review: International Stars at Damian Woetzel?s Festival in Vail 2010-08-08T23:47:00Z Spectral composers use computer analysis of the acoustic properties of sound as compositional building blocks, with the overtones created by a note used to produce shimmering sonorities. Critic?s Notebook: Unearthly Harmonies, Best Heard in the Dark 2011-02-15T22:20:14Z Muhly's piece is enormously accomplished in many ways: technically assured, making clever use of stacked-up orchestral sonorities and the contrasting timbres of various instruments. SSO's premiere of Muhly work: so far, so good 2012-01-27T17:53:05Z The predominantly gentle sonorities do not merely twinkle — they also glisten, shimmer, I might even say jiggle. Emerson, 'Four Quarters' a beguiling start to UW season 2012-10-03T16:55:04Z But the enchanting vocal style and sonority that the female trio has evolved unifies the whole beautifully. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z His ear for novel sonorities rivals Ligeti’s or Penderecki’s, and his ability to work everything into a cohesive architecture has no match. John Corigliano?s New Work Commemorates 9/11 2011-09-24T22:15:07Z The choral singing was momentous, the soloists exemplary and the orchestral sound strikingly clear – entirely appropriate to a work that envisions mystic experience in terms of crystalline sonorities rather than haze or vagueness. Hall?/BBCPO/Elder 2010-05-05T22:00:00Z But the work’s steadier pace and pure, plaintive sonorities, reminiscent of Renaissance viol music, fared better in the space. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z I love the intimate relationship between soloist and orchestra in these pieces, which are so wonderfully inventive in melody, sonority and form. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z Written when Mr. Adès was 19, the work is inspired by playground antics, with childhood games evoked by high sonorities, chaotic interludes and a panoply of styles. Music Review: A Dexterous Sextet Balances Trills and Tempos 2011-02-01T21:38:09Z In terms of color the Soler works were limited, but this was clearly an interpretive choice, Mr. Brown’s concession to current notions of 18th-century sonority, which he otherwise made little effort to approximate. Music Review: Michael Brown Performs George Perle Piano Rarity at Weill 2012-04-11T21:43:43Z Individual notes are then erased and extraordinary sonorities arise, ones you would never expect. Charles Curtis plays Alvin Lucier and Eliane Radique 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Ohlsson, who is famous for his distinctively lush, powerful sonority as well as the subtleties he coaxes from the keyboard, says that he greatly enjoyed rehearsing with the young Chinese musicians. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson, a local favorite, is back in Seattle to open the President’s Piano Series 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The four-movement composition is a sonic adventure of rhythms, intricate sonorities and emotions. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Tchaikovsky’s inspiring Serenade for Strings, the score that gives “Serenade” its name, acquires an awkwardly heightened edge to its orchestral sonority at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music here, presumably as a result of assisted acoustics. Review: Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘A Program of Firsts,’ a Tricky Triple Bill 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The orchestra gloried in the work’s brilliant and kaleidoscopic sonorities and produced powerful heft, with shining woodwinds and brasses, without letting the sound turn blowsy. Music Review: Orchestral Extremes: From a Pizza Shop to Carnegie 2011-02-06T22:41:17Z Of the music pieces, Andy Akiho’s “LIgNEouS 1,” for string quartet and marimba, was dramatic in composition, with ostinato patterns repeatedly swelling and spilling over, but it was most distinctive in its sonorities. Dance Review: ‘Capture/Release’ Uses Lar Lubovitch Dancers 2013-06-26T21:49:30Z While criticisms of Mr. Glass’s music as cookie-cutter have always been misguided, “The Perfect American” finds him in especially unpredictable form, experimenting with sonorities, textures and pacing. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z But again, certain passages went limp and sustained sonorities sometimes were inert. ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ and ‘Iolanta’ Open at the Met 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z As a solo instrument it was long overshadowed by its soprano sibling, the violin, with its glittering trove of repertory, and more recently by its tenor one, the cello, with its dark brown, floor-shaking sonorities. Emanuel Vardi, a Champion of the Viola, Dies at 95 2011-02-07T05:02:48Z Although textural clarity and rhythmic incisiveness were the hallmarks of his interpretations, he delighted in the ample, brilliant orchestral sonorities of the sort that his beloved Chicago Symphony produced so magnificently. Classical: Memories of Georg Solti as His Orchestra Comes to Town 2012-10-14T01:23:11Z Some of the most impressive playing comes in the appropriately driven scherzo, setting the stage for the mighty organ chord that commences the finale, captured here in great detail and fully dimensional sonority. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z A program of music by one of the master French orchestrators, Camille Saint-Saëns, features the new organ, while casting the Kansas City Symphony in a favorable light in terms of sonority, balance and color. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z During passages of this mercurial, mostly subdued piece, the music shifted from sustained, focused and elemental sonorities, to passages of swaying rhythmic figures and collective bursts of fidgety lines. The Philharmonic Takes New Music Beyond Geffen Hall 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The musical language combines atonal and tonal aspects into lush, mystical sonorities. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes don't share the sonority of Shakespeare, for the same reason, but that's rarely held against them. King James Bible: 'Twas a work most modern 2011-03-01T13:05:13Z Schubert played off the different sonorities of winds and strings while at the same time creating unbroken lyrical phrases. Max Reger a crowd pleaser at a full and festive Disney Hall 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z For this performance, the BSO played with reverence and assurance, thundering through the drum riffs and industrial hissing of cymbals to revel in the warmer sonorities and melodic passages. Review | New music? For Baltimore, yes, please. 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z “Eclat” is a study in bright sonorities, generated principally by the piano and seconded by other plucked or struck instruments, while the winds, brass and strings concern themselves with the logic of these sonorities. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Here, too, he drew unusual sonorities from the singers in a setting of his own poem, in Japanese, about a white stone sinking into a moonlit ocean. Music Review: The Ensemble Ekmeles at Roulette in Brooklyn 2013-01-25T22:12:21Z The music begins with a pungent, sustained sonority, a quivering mass of sounds, within which fragments dart about. Review: ‘Canta-Concerto’ by Marc Neikrug by the New York Philharmonic 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In the 1930s, he adopted a more Neo-Classical style, composing essentially in a tonal language enriched with contemporary sonorities and demonstrating utter mastery of counterpoint. Classical Playlist: Teodor Currentzis, Bach and Per Bloland 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z He also faced the technical issues of writing for two instruments “tuned in the same way, in the same sonority.” Wolves, storms and bluegrass: an afternoon with Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Commissioning Club 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z In Dominic Dromgoole's intriguing, uneven A Midsummer Night's Dream it's the sonority of her voice that strikes home first. Strange Interlude; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Trash Cuisine – review 2013-06-08T23:05:35Z “She has a hypnotic quality that is not about minimalist repetition, but about sonority.” She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z But “Max Brown” is jazz that has imported and metabolized the sonorities and techniques of hip-hop. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Much of the artistry seemed intact, but sonority and control were often not. ArtsBeat: Some Misses and Hits at Boston Early Music Festival 2013-06-16T19:31:07Z Ms. Saariaho’s music is rich with sustained sonorities, shimmering harmonies and slides. Three Varied Visions of Spirituality at the White Light Festival 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z The first movement begins with an Adagio introduction, flickering with piercing chords and sustained sonorities; this leads to a bustling, densely contrapuntal Allegro. A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Bass-playing also gave Mingus an insight into the low sonorities and inner hamonies of jazz composition, and his melodic approach was profoundly influenced by the blues and gospel music of his childhood. Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 2010-09-06T15:46:00Z "The double piano possesses fine sonority of perfect distinction, and the qualities of elasticity, gentleness and bravura," noted a reviewer in Le Menestrel, in 1898. Jazz: Piano a rare find in Bix's hometown 2011-05-02T21:50:00Z And the next movement lists a venerable catalogue of made-up liveries, including "the Worshipful Company of Strivers and Skivers", all to jazzy, obsessive rhythms accompanied by low orchestral sonorities, which keep the words audible. At Sixes and Sevens – review 2013-07-04T17:25:00Z The sonority sounded forced and stylistically all wrong for Mozart, as did the odd variations in tempo from bar to bar. Hélène Grimaud proves again that she does music her way 2012-11-02T20:31:04Z Brahms' trio is a generous tapestry of golden-hued sonorities; the gorgeous opening Allegro is Brahms at his most breathtaking — and the entire hall did seem to stop breathing during it. Review: Skies clear, chamber players shine at Seattle Chamber Music Society's festival opener 2010-07-06T23:45:00Z The spaces between the thoughts allow time for the echoing sonorities to disperse in the cathedral before the next phrase happens. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Memorial Day Concert 2013-05-28T20:23:42Z But his voice is backed by questioning, almost needling, high sustained instrumental sonorities that suggest this innocent is, at best, naïve. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z But theirs was a daring venture at a time when most listeners preferred string quartets, with their even sonorities and vast repertory, for intimate chamber concerts. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Nathan Davis, a percussionist in the International Contemporary Ensemble, writes music that deals deftly and poetically with timbre and sonority. Music Review: Yarn/Wire Plays Percussion and Piano at Issue Project Room 2012-03-25T21:49:50Z “Gruppen” is an organic piece with dazzling instrumental colors, craggy rhythmic energy and astringent sonorities — both dissonant and beautiful. Music Review: Alan Gilbert’s ‘Philharmonic 360’ at Park Avenue Armory 2012-07-01T21:48:52Z Just five instrumentalists produce wondrous colors and sonorities. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Those expecting the luminous halo of sonority that comes from many an ECM disc will be disappointed by the neutral ambience: these are live concert recordings, from the mid-nineteen-eighties. CD Notes: Keith Jarrett’s “Barber/Bartók” 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Dohnanyi, looking hale at 85, almost seemed at times to be playing an organ, pulling this or that stop to shift colorations seamlessly and blend sonorities smoothly. Review: New York Philharmonic Dives Into Brahms’s ‘German Requiem’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z Sometimes a bed of strings will swell with a prolonged sonority, though the component notes are too restless to stay put. Review: A Long-Awaited New Opera Is a Raucous Beauty 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z The music was curiously dominated by its surface qualities, which, to me, evoked the plush sonorities and soaring lines of Ravel. Review: Decades Later, a Classic Concert Gets a Redo 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The program concluded with the original version, featuring Joshua Rubin playing bass clarinet, the instrument’s low sonorities and outbursts creating a canvas even more otherworldly than the cello version. Review: Mario Diaz de León Plays Selections From ‘The Soul Is the Arena’ 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Everything is entirely tonal, the harmony stable, the sonority rich and satisfying. The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 ? review 2011-08-13T23:06:02Z There are marching episodes and pensive passages of quivering sonorities. Review: New York Philharmonic Explores Israeli Musical Identity 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Chopin advanced the technique of piano playing, often horrifying conservative pedagogues in the process, and created startling new sonorities. 2010-02-06T07:43:00Z The bone-dry acoustics of the Theater Lab require extra effort to create sonority, but the violin pizzicati in the Webern simply vanished, chords went unvibrated, and there was not enough projection in expressive passages. Shaw’s terrific ‘Blueprint’ felt too short 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z In certain beguiling passages, as when wistful clarinet lines hover over wide-spaced plaintive orchestral sonorities in the opening movement, “A Cold Clear Dawn,” Mr. Rogerson risks evoking such models too closely. Review: 56 Years Presenting the Best of Young Artists 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Biber’s mystery sonatas and set of seven partitas all use scordatura, which requires each string on the violin to be tuned differently, producing a wide range of sonorities and colors. Music Review: Daniel S. Lee Plays ‘The Crucifixion’ for Tenet’s TENEbrae 2014-03-24T22:40:14Z The opening is startlingly asymmetrical, with dancers all on one side of the stage, but in patterns that mysteriously answer the music’s sonorities. Mark Morris and Lou Harrison, a Large-Spirited Partnership 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z But he does little more than smoothly enhance orchestral sonorities, giving them added glitz. The man, the machine and now Steve Jobs, the opera 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Krauss's conducting is the main interest here – more sensuous, more concerned with orchestral sonority than Keilberth, though sometimes at the expense of dramatic clarity. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z He treats the work as a study in shifting colors, emphasizing the contrasting textures of each strophe, from harplike passages to rich orchestral sonorities. Recordings in review: the Transcendental Études, twice. 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z “She gets your attention with the thickness, intensity and edge of her sonorities,” Leon Botstein, one of the few conductors in the United States to program her music this centenary season, said in an interview. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z And though the duo’s plush sonorities, legato line and sense of rhapsody — often at luxurious tempos — suggested music written several generations after Beethoven, the performances never tumbled into ham-handed overstatement. Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, partners in sublime 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z That became the core of a closing meditation, inexorably thickening and deepening, glowering and resolving and slowly clearing, exulting in the sonority of massed pipes. Music Review: Charlemagne Palestine at Plymouth Church 2014-03-07T22:39:48Z The symphony, written in four continuous movements, juxtaposes bold blocks of orchestral colour, sonority seemingly taking precedence over musical development. SCO/Elts 2010-05-05T21:00:00Z He made his debut in November with “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’” and showed his skill at drawing out fresh aspects of phrasing and sonority. Review: New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Blends Movement and Music 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Long phrases sung by the men were layered with the lush sonorities of the women’s voices. Review | Washington Chorus pairs unlikely works offering reflection and reconciliation 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z But clarifying this kind of text-heavy composition is no easy assignment for a massed chorus of amateurs, and words and textures were largely subsumed in a mushy overall sonority. Mozart, Made New: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The vertical runs and otherworldly sonorities of Ravi Shankar's ragas in particular inspired young musicians seeking to translate the sheer intensity of acid. Jon Savage on song: The Dovers open their Third Eye 2010-10-04T12:55:00Z By Movement 3, the building is complete, with music that reflects the bold exuberance of baroque style, bright with rich but clear sonorities and vibrant, this time tuned, percussion. Music Review: Beating the ‘Curse of the Ninth’ 2014-02-04T13:01:10Z And that sheen in no way detracted from the work’s would-be primitiveness, instead lending the biting sonorities a sort of surgical edge. Music Review: Valery Gergiev Conducts New York Philharmonic 2010-05-10T20:59:00Z The arresting analog engineering of the Royce Hall sessions are where you witness the marvelous Mehta Sound — where each sonority has a personality, even a kind of chutzpah. Commentary: At 86, Zubin Mehta reflects on his career, Mahler and the 'Mehta Sound' 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z They find out what it feels like to be a viola within their own instrumental bodies and sonorities. Commentary: The extraordinary consequence of Mozart's love letter between violin and viola 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Dinnerstein brought the sensuous mad rush of sonority to Glass’ “Mad Rush” that has made her famous performances of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations a popular sensation. Commentary: Beethoven 2020: The 250th birthday tributes start, with mixed results 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Already, he is demonstrating his incredible ear for sonorities with multiple instruments and dazzling percussion that would become the hallmark of “sur incises.” Review: The 80-year-old Monday Evening Concerts series goes back to the future with Boulez 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The sound was nasal, emphatic, transfixing—closer to Arab ululation than to the smooth sonority of an American choir. Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z While it may sound nothing like Young’s “Second Dream,” there is also a drone-like effusiveness of chordal sonorities that make the space you are in feel as though it were expanding. Critic's Notebook: In a constellation of experimental sounds, all music is in Fluxus 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z There are no wrong notes, only opportunities to create wonderfully strange sonorities. What does 'crazed virtuosity' sound like? Jennifer Koh delivers her answer with L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Piece after piece, each in its own way grew from delicate colors to glorious rainbows of organ sonorities, making the program a garden of blooms. Commentary: Beethoven 2020: The 250th birthday tributes start, with mixed results 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z These seductive lines, she says, are the perfect example of the “sonority” of a song lyric, the elusive element she values above almost all else in her music. Françoise Hardy: ‘I sing about death in a symbolic, even positive way’ 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z It was a concern asked with varying sonority the past 10 months, raised as recently as last weekend. Rory McIlroy dazzles, Tiger Woods impresses in final Masters tune-up: What you missed this weekend - Golf Digest 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Her short tone poem “Aerality” leans on sustained notes, yet its sonorities are so alive with ever-changing instrumental filigree that it simultaneously achieves a state of stasis and of transformation. The L.A. Philharmonic Celebrates Iceland 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Their well-attended and enthusiastically received concert Tuesday at the Library of Congress showcased their signature chiseled sonorities and sincerity of delivery. Tallis Scholars offers gems and world-class singing 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It is a work of profound feeling, whose sonorities of grief and bitterness are hard to forget. How voters’ personal suffering overtook reason — and brought us Donald Trump 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The final half-minute of Burn the Witch doesn’t merely find the strings playing louder; this bit also introduces some bracing, keening sonorities from the bowed string instruments. Like Radiohead's Burn the Witch? Try Jonny Greenwood’s orchestral work 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z In his roles as pianist, composer and arranger, Valdés helped incorporate and amplify a wide variety of influences: Afro-Caribbean folk and dance music, bebop and American jazz-rock and European classical sonorities, just for starters. Chucho Valdés celebrates his legendary Cuban ensemble 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z In other hands, this material might have elicited lyrical effusions; McIntosh’s spare, rarefied sonorities, which tilt away from traditional tunings, give an air of mythic otherness. Creating an Opera as Big as Los Angeles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The crack of the whip in Frankie Laine’s “Mule Train” still thrills — as do other “story” songs like “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” “High Noon” and the strange sonorities of Johnnie Ray’s agonizing “Cry.” A flashback to the ’50s 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “It’s a romantic piece, it’s a very dramatic piece. It’s extraordinarily colorful. I mean, he paints music for one gigantic landscape, in terms of the sonority.” Beethoven comes to New Haven in symphony opener 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z The Boston-based recorder trio, Three Part Fugue, will perform Recorder kaleidoscope, a concert celebrating the full spectrum of the recorder’s sizes and sonorities. Religion events from around the Washington area Listening again later to the Radio 3 live transmission was not the same experience, even if my speakers had been up to the vast sonorities of Bruckner. How to conduct your staff 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z The voice-parts are carefully written so as to lessen the difficulties of intonation which the many far-fetched modulations involve, and are skilfully disposed in point of sonority. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z For, by omitting this note you do alter the tone colour of the chord as well as its sonority. Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z In front of her a rostrum had been built out from the edge of the platform so that the speakers might stand upon the exact spot whence the voice carried with the greatest sonority. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The piece, as described by Mr. Bresnick in an e-mail, weaves “gentle sonorities, deliberate tempo and dreamlike realistic form” in an attempt to suggest the etching “in a vivid, unrestrained and compelling way.” | Connecticut: Yale Music Season Showcases Organ and Piano Work 2012-01-14T03:26:45Z D'Annunzio writes magnificent D'Annunzio, with a recognizable fondness for certain words and sonorities, no matter who is alleged to be talking. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The new Steinway Grand is a glorious masterpiece in power, sonority, singing quality, and perfect harmonic effects, affording delight even to my old piano-weary fingers. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z He said it lost all its sonority and grandeur if modernized; and, indeed, to hear his illustration was in itself sufficient to convince. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z One finds upon every page not only new and superlative achievements in colouring, unimagined sonorities, but a keenly poetic feeling for the timbre which will most intensify the dramatic moment. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z He found in them too, what had escaped him at the first reading, an austere sonority in the best passages. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z "Each of the registers," he added, "has its own extent and sonority, which varies according to the sex of the individual and the nature of the organ." Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z When Franz Liszt nearly three quarters of a century ago made some suggestions to the Erard piano manufacturers on the score of increased sonority in their instruments, he sounded the tocsin of realism. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Then there's I Vow to Thee My Country, which ticks the box marked "mournful sonority" but, again, presents problems when it comes to the words. So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse? 2011-07-31T21:30:02Z He is soft-spoken — his impeccable French inflected with dry Spanish sonorities — and courteous, with a round, placid face that registers flashes of mirth and melancholy. A Mild-Mannered Maniac 2011-07-29T20:15:26Z That is all right; but some people confuse "rich sonority" with artificiality. The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors 2011-07-26T02:00:15.573Z His recitation rose like a chant in its music and sonority. A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2011-06-08T02:00:18.910Z In modern music sonority, brilliancy are present, but the nuance is inevitable, not alone tonal but expressive nuance. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Sometimes he translates the sonorities of the air into immortal effluences of meaning: Hark, some wild trumpeter—some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night.... A Day with Walt Whitman 2011-06-05T02:00:12.967Z The marble amphitheatre gave sonority to his high voice. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The last ensemble is exquisite—well-nigh unapproachable in sonority and charm. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z His rapid, vehement voice rang out in full sonority in the silence of the great rolling Down, and his thoughts seemed to move with more ease than usual in the high, cold air of autumn. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Boccaccio, on the contrary, sought to give the fullness and sonority of Latin to the periods of Italian prose. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Anna closed the bedroom door softly; through the open window came the tones of Cauldon Church clock, famous for their sonority, and richness, announcing eleven. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z The wind sang like a trump, and from far away the reverberations of a train of cars came with a sort of muffled sonority that was almost indistinguishable from the vibrations of the earth. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z They taught me to direct and utilise large masses of vocal sound, so as to develop the maxim of sonority under very simple methods of treatment. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z He gives the syllables a different quantity, a different sonority; they no longer rest, they rock to and fro. ?mile Verhaeren 2011-02-26T03:00:52.147Z If the reply be negative, then what remains is the magnificence of the imagery and the sonority of the diction. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z The pedal is the distinctive feature of the Organ which places it above all other instruments, and gives it its magnificence, sonority, and majesty. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z Ask the musician to give us all this with his mere pitch, and rhythm and harmony and sonority; bid him describe all this in his language. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions Continuous sonority must be maintained from the first phrase to the last. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Brilliancy, a crowd of notes, sonority, all without beauty of form or emotional suggestiveness—this is the music which the modern grand piano-forte has brought upon us. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. He was short and stout, had a round wizened face freckled to the fuscous tint of a russedon apple, and was endowed with a voice which had all the husky sonority of a greengrocer's. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) There is, however, a vast amount of sonority and musical charm in our grand and noble language, second only to the Italian, when properly spoken. The Mechanism of the Human Voice The poem, which was full of vague Oriental imagery, was perfectly intelligible, and throbbed with a certain sonority like that of distant gongs; but no sane man would have written it in his waking moments. Memoirs of Life and Literature He read the adventures of David and the lamentations of Jeremiah, and the lofty exhortations of Isaiah for the sonority of the phrasing, the poetry and beauty. The Bondboy Perhaps he thought it meant sonority or something of the kind; or he connected it with that lovely phrase "tone-poem." The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. In his works we begin to enjoy orchestral effect for its own sake: the dashing vivacity of the strings, the mellowness of the wood-wind,103 the sonority and grandeur of the brass. Music: An Art and a Language The characteristics of De Tabley's poetry are pre-eminently magnificence of style, derived from close study of Milton, sonority, dignity, weight and colour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" Its white marble balustrading gleams in the strong light thrown from the western transept window and gives an unmistakable note of richness and sonority. The Cathedrals of Northern France Lastly, a voice of bell-like tone and sonority, a voice capable of expressing without effort every shade of emotion from rage and terror to the most sublime tenderness. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History What of that sonority which could fill a mighty hall where we find five thousand listeners? Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. As a matter of fact he widened, in a perfectly legitimate way, the possibilities of the instrument as to sonority, wealth and variety of color-effect. Music: An Art and a Language The subject had bellowed with sonority, testifying at least to the possession of an uninjured diaphragm, as Saxham begun to cut away the jacket. The Dop Doctor From far up the avenue came the boom of an ox-horn, militant, almost brazen in its sonority. The Doomsman Pile note on note the infinite music that flows increasingly to your soul from the tactual sonorities of a thousand branches and tumbling waters. The World I Live In And, remember, as the soft nature of the oil assumes a harder tendency day by day, so will increase the sonority of the tones, whilst retaining the beauty of character with which they began. Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. They are thoroughly pianistic and evoke from the instrument all its possibilities of sonority and color. Music: An Art and a Language What he did was but to set the familiar theme to a rhetoric whose superb sonority must have left theirs tame, as it leaves Seneca's stilted in comparison. Montaigne and Shakspere The voice is shrill and sibilant, yet with a sonority so powerful that it vibrates on the eardrums and penetrates to the farthest corners of the hall. Modern Saints and Seers It is the wind passing through the spaces between the rocks that causes these intonations, and in their confused sonorities he distinguishes voices, as if the air were speaking. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul This hair, fine, strong, resistant, vibrant in light sonority, and, with all that, soft, warm, luminous, and electric,—it is the flower of the human flower. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 By this means a great gain was made in richness and sonority. Music: An Art and a Language Another instrument which is expected to work a revolution in the realm of sonority is the Clumbungo Drum, on which Mr. Wackford Bumpus will shortly give a recital at the Albert Hall. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 No matter how great the natural beauty and sonority of his voice, his performance will always be monotonous, if he has only one tint on his vocal palette. Style in Singing And when we are not provided with sonorous material, a dream would find it hard to manufacture sonority. Dreams Neither in sonority nor in delicacy of tonal resource were the Egyptian instruments a tenth part as stimulating as those of to-day. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Many years of study are required to attain a certainty of calculation in sonority and nuance, and the mere writing out the score of a symphony requires unremitting toil. Music: An Art and a Language Where was the sonority in the metallic, crushing blows you dealt in the Liszt Ballade? Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques By an additional exertion of physical force, the singer usually attempts to conceal its loss of sonority and carrying-power. Style in Singing Quality has reference to the kind of the voice in respect of its smoothness or roughness, sonority or thinness, musicalness or harshness; also in respect of the completeness of its vocality. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 He was fond of chromatic harmonies and double stops, which imparted great sonority to his playing. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present He certainly brought out of the pianoforte a sonority and wealth of color which heretofore had been associated only with the orchestra. Music: An Art and a Language Amongst Mrs. Browning's earlier poems, there is one to my mind almost peerless for sweet sonority of verse-music, and simplicity of strength. Border and Bastille The ear of a listener tires sooner of extreme sonority than of any other effect. Style in Singing The sonority of our vowels is lost, and their distinguishing qualities are obscured; and with unnoticed frequency our consonants are either dropped or amalgamated with one another. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 It is to be noticed, further, that the peculiar sonority of Thalberg's playing depended upon the improvements in the pianoforte, made just before his appearance and during his career. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Note the sonority gained by the use of widely spaced chords. Music: An Art and a Language But it is in the piano-music that the sonorities are most rudely neglected. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers She was still shivering, her voice had a cristalline sonority that pierced Rodolphe's heart like a funeral knell, and filled it with a mournful alarm. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter He opened the way for the sonority of tone and imposing diction of the modern style. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Besides a number of brilliant and highly sensational overtures, he composed six symphonies, of unexampled sonority, rich coloring and strange musical expression. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Some rather meaningless repetitions, in detached phrases, of the Orpheus theme bring us, in measure 130, to a return of the original march which is finally proclaimed ff with great power and sonority. Music: An Art and a Language The weaver of moonshine, of mystic phrases, of sweet gestures and veiled sonorities should not have worn the guise of one who ate three meals a day and slept soundly after his mellow incantations. Visionaries It was an abode of darkness, enormous, without sonority. Romance His chief significance lies in his influence as a technician, for he opened the way to the modern style of play with its greater sonority and capacity for expression. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art Yet the orchestra were lavish of violent sonority where it was not required; the well-meaning but unfortunate Mr. Orlo Jimson, who essayed the "Smithy Songs" from Siegfried, being submerged in a very Niagara of noise. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 The movement is a remarkable illustration of idiomatic style for each of the instruments: the violin part, sustained and cantabile; the pianoforte part, broken up and of remarkable color and sonority. Music: An Art and a Language To the morbidly acute hearing of the woman, the music had a ring of hollow sonority after the denser packed phrases of Weber. Visionaries It does not possess the rough gravity of the Spanish, and has too few of the i's and e's that soften the sonority of the Italian. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence The growth in power, sonority, and tonal brilliancy has been much more marked, and of it Liszt made striking use. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art There are dilettanti who pretend that at a concert the best way to enjoy Beethoven's last works—where the sonority is defective—is to stop the ears and read the score. Musicians of To-Day Note how in this song the passionate glow of the poem is reflected in the gorgeous modulations and sonority of the pianoforte part. Music: An Art and a Language With him I believe that three essentials—absolute purity of pitch, equality of tone and sonority of tone, in connection with the bow—are the base on which everything else rests. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers In the resounding sonority of the night it makes quite a terrible noise, which wakes Madame Prune. Madame Chrysantheme He spoke purposely with sonority, and also with a tinge of satire, particularly when he alluded to the presence of Tandakora at such a great distance from his tribe. The Hunters of the Hills His biggest music for it is written with very broad and extended chords, strong in character, but always wonderfully clear and ringing, and eminently suited for pianoforte sonority. Edward MacDowell This passage is one of great sonority and reveals clearly the influence of the organ upon Franck's style. Music: An Art and a Language Brown has Godwin's power of hypnotising us by his serious persistence, and of reducing us to a mood of awestruck gravity by the sonority of his pompous periods. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance "In Deep Woods" is less unusual—is, in fact, strongly suggestive, in harmonic colour, of the shining sonorities of the "Wandering Iceberg" study in the "Sea Pieces." Edward MacDowell And the quality of the sonority which he gets out of it is unlike that which is teased or provoked from the instrument by any other player. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory The piece closes with a reminiscence of the last part of the introduction, first softly and then very loudly, the final chords being of orchestral-like sonority. Edward MacDowell The freedom in control of both pedals possessed by each player secures a greater richness and sonority of tone and it is much easier to make prominent voices stand out in relief. Music: An Art and a Language Yes, yes, and the sonority of the instrument is double that of the old harpsichord. Evelyn Innes But now it rises in the ever increasing vehemence where the final blast is lit up with a flash of serene sonority. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies The syllable has great inherent sonority and does not fluctuate significantly as to quantity and stress. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Some of the passages of light and shade—those of the balustrade—are fugues, and there his art is allied to Bach in sonority and beautiful combination. Confessions of a Young Man This is no less true of the decasyllabic verse, when compared with the full sonority of Lycidas, than of the shorter measures. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Here the instruments become identical with one another, the sonority is increased and the tonal deviation is corrected to the most perfect harmony. Delsarte System of Oratory Some of the passages of light and shade there—those of the balustrade—are fugues, and there his art is allied to Bach in sonority and beautiful combination. Confessions of a Young Man It is even doubtful if the innate sonority of a phonetic system counts for as much, as esthetic determinant, as the relations between the sounds, the total gamut of their similarities and contrasts. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech It increased the power of the voices and lent them a sonority difficult to believe. The Ways of Men In much the same manner the varied, but at times uncertain, melody of the early love comedies seems to aspire towards the full sonority and magic of lyric feeling and utterance in Romeo and Juliet. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Since we are on the subject of the phenomena of sonority, let us draw another illustration from it, quite as overwhelming in its illogicalness as the former. Delsarte System of Oratory He pronounced his words with great distinctness and sonority, and Newman assured him that his way of dealing with the French tongue was very superior to the bewildering chatter that he heard in other mouths. The American Mr. Whitefoot, who but a twelvemonth later became a convert to episcopacy and was already cultivating a certain conversational sonority, devoted himself to Cecilia. Roderick Hudson In the nocturnal sonority, the barking of a watch-dog, coming from some distant farm, made them shiver with a melancholy fright. Ramuntcho The Rabelaisian expressions, which give such a peculiar flavour to the conversation of the 'people' in Southern France, rolled off his tongue with a sonority that could hardly have been excelled at Nimes or Tarascon. Two Summers in Guyenne It is because we are accustomed always to associate this particular sonority with emphasis that even when it is spoken without emphasis, we imagine it to be emphatic. America To-day, Observations and Reflections The old man grew majestic when he thundered the sonorities of Holy Writ. We Can't Have Everything His voice had risen to its customary sonority; his eyes were twinkling; all the hard lines had become benignant wrinkles of Olympian charm. Over the Pass Some metre, a little poetic sonority, would make the style impressive, and they would be more likely to come. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 In each private room and public saloon, were parties talking in loud voices, and the thin partitions gave vibrating sonority to all this riot. Theresa Raquin I confess that, in point of abstract sonority, I prefer the "yoo" to the dry "oo;" but that, again, is a pure matter of taste. America To-day, Observations and Reflections The guttural sonority with which she rolled the "r" in "cruel" made the epithet appear one of revolting barbarity. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel His voice is low, with sudden sonorities, like a trumpet that one tries to blow too softly. Under Fire: the story of a squad He returned to Bombay a complete wreck, with shrunken, tottering frame, sunken eyes, and a voice that had lost its sonority. The Life of Sir Richard Burton Samuel, notwithstanding his breadth of mind, privately admitted the charm of such an address as 'Dagmar Road,' which looks well at the head of note-paper, and falls with sonority from the lips. In the Year of Jubilee Susie and Bettina began to sing: If I had but two little wings, And were a little feathery bird, Their sweet and penetrating voices had an exquisite sonority in that profound silence. L'Abbe Constantin — Complete Susie and Bettina began to sing: If I had but two little wings, And were a little feathery bird, Their sweet and penetrating voices had an exquisite sonority in that profound silence. L'Abbe Constantin — Volume 2 The same energy shone in his eyes, the same sonority rang in his voice, which had become slightly more brusque and authoritative from his long-continued habit of command. Zibeline — Complete The same energy shone in his eyes, the same sonority rang in his voice, which had become slightly more brusque and authoritative from his long- continued habit of command. Zibeline — Volume 1 The enthusiasm of M. Tiersot goes further still, for he says that the music of "Joseph" is more conspicuous for the qualities of dignity and sonority than that of Handel's oratorio. A Second Book of Operas And then, in spite of the sonority of the vast straight walls, in spite of the echoes which prolong the cries, the silence obstinately returns. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) I yawned with prodigious sonority, and overturned a chair with my foot. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes On impact, it gave off a metallic sonority, and as incredible as this sounds, it seemed, I swear, to be made of riveted plates. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Hundreds more sat on chairs in more or less concentric circles, receiving unflinchingly the great waves of sonority that ebbed out into the darkness. A Set of Six Hannibal, greatly frightened by the strange sonority of his own name, ran to hid himself under a bookcase in an orifice so small that a rat could not have squeezed himself into it. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard It was going to be settled, he repeated several times, degrading by a strange, anxious whine the sonority of the Spanish language, which he pattered rapidly, like some sort of cringing jargon. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Couture, a man about forty-three years of age, half worn-out, did not redeem the unpleasant sonority of his name by birth; he said little of the authors of his days. Beatrix He rapped with his knuckles, but a hollow sonority revealing the void, "intonuere cavernae," echoed beyond the door which he vainly appealed to with his fist. The Lesser Bourgeoisie “On earth peace, good-will to men”—already that line was among the treasures of his intellect, but only, no doubt, because of its rhythm, its sonority. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft The noise of the rapids dominated the air with distant sonority, and the children slept at once, the boy with his rifle along his blanket's edge. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Vitellius noticed that one of these was larger than the others, and that when struck by his foot it had not their sonority. Herodias The word came forth with a majestic sonority; for her voice now—how changed from the silvery treble of her girlhood—was a contralto, full and strong. Queen Victoria At the spot to which Toupillier's constant gaze was directed he thought he perceived in a very narrow space a slight sonority, and he presently perceived that he was rapping on wood. The Lesser Bourgeoisie He could scarce have said what the effect resembled; the abrupt cessation, the positive prohibition, of music perhaps, more than anything else, in some place all adjusted and all accustomed to sonority and to attention. The Beast in the Jungle At last, as I was slightly kicking the foot of the coffin, I fancied that it gave out a clearer echoing noise, but that might merely be produced by the sonority of the wood. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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