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Definition of Sonorities
1. sonority [n] - See also: sonority
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonorities
Literary usage of Sonorities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contemporary Composers by Daniel Gregory Mason (1918)
"It delights in sonorities. A beautiful chord is a rare intoxication, and sometimes
an author repeats it lingeringly, the better to savor it. ..."
2. The New Music Review and Church Music Review by American Guild of Organists (1906)
"It is repeated in higher register, with fuller sonorities, and with the harmonic
scheme changed (by means that the student of harmony will be interested to ..."
3. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1861)
"... have wished to express in the overture, which is an assemblage of sounds, of
dissonant chords, of strange sonorities, where the ear is utterly lost and ..."
4. The Appreciation of Music, Vol. III: Short Studies of Great Masterpieces by Daniel Gregory Mason (1918)
"... re, do, in mysteriously repressed sonorities: once in F major from the violas;
once in D flat from the first horn; once in F minor from the bassoon. ..."
5. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"... above-mentiond relativ inherent sonorities of the elementary sounds, and (2)
the changes wrought among the relationships of these inherent sonorities by ..."
6. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams (1905)
"... conventional both in verse and thought, and aimed at obtaining his effects
from the skilful use of the Latin sonorities for the purposes of the chant. ..."
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