Liszt taught his pupils to hold the wrist high, but more recent players use either a high or a low position accordingly as they desire sonority and brilliancy or mellowness and gentleness.
Although Hérold, the French composer, observed that in working up to a climax one should begin a long way off, a singer must be careful not to reach his maximum of vocal sonority before the musical climax is attained.
By an additional exertion of physical force, the singer usually attempts to conceal its loss of sonority and carrying-power.
No matter how great the natural beauty and sonorityof his voice, his performance will always be monotonous, if he has only one tint on his vocal palette.
The lyric artist who is gifted merely with a beautiful voice, over which he has acquired but imperfect control, is at the mercy of every slight indisposition that may temporarily affect the quality and sonority of his instrument.
The ear of a listener tires sooner of extreme sonority than of any other effect.
It is the sounds of greater sonority that carry the syllable, which term is also applied to a vowel standing alone, or beside other vowels of practically equal sonority.
We may indicate the sonority very roughly by lines; if we connect their top ends, we shall obtain a curve.
It struck that natural note which for many years gave freshness and sonority to both the Romantic and the ante-Romantic lyric poetry.
He was still completely under his master's influence; the manuscripts show that he always accepted Bürger's corrections and deferred to his predilection for sonority and vigour.
Note how in this song the passionate glow of the poem is reflected in the gorgeous modulations and sonority of the pianoforte part.
Many years of study are required to attain a certainty of calculation in sonorityand nuance, and the mere writing out the score of a symphony requires unremitting toil.
This passage is one of great sonority and reveals clearly the influence of the organ upon Franck's style.
He certainly brought out of the pianoforte a sonority and wealth of color which heretofore had been associated only with the orchestra.
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.
Sound and sonority are secondary to thought, and thought is secondary to feeling and passion.
Sonority or tone was varied by changing the keys or register just as on the organ.
It must be prose on what by common consent is the highest level of prose, prose impeccably written, and prose with a dignity, a richness, a sonority or a sweetness of flow that rival the attributes of great poetry.
And then, in spite of thesonority of the vast straight walls, in spite of the echoes which prolong the cries, the silence obstinately returns.
A movement of similar sonority is the "Rex Tremendæ Majestatis.
He was fond of chromatic harmonies and double stops, which imparted greatsonority to his playing.
Pollini surrounded his melodies, thus placed in the middle of the instrument, where at that time the sonority and singing quality of the pianoforte exclusively lay, with runs and passages of a brilliant and highly ingenious kind.
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.
Indeed, if one were to attempt to characterize the Schumann technique by some one of its more prominent features, the free use of the arm would be, perhaps, the one best representing the depth and sonority of tone required for these effects.
The ravanastron he brought home with him from India, and under the name Rebec it found its way into Europe, where in an appreciative soil it grew and expanded into that miracle of sonority and expression, the modern violin.
The last ensemble is exquisite--well-nigh unapproachable in sonority and charm.
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.
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.
In the resoundingsonority of the night it makes quite a terrible noise, which wakes Madame Prune.
Then rises the sound of a guitar, and the song of a woman, plaintive and gentle in the echoing sonority of the bare house, in the melancholy of the rainy weather.
What of that sonority which could fill a mighty hall where we find five thousand listeners?
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.
These casualties and the attendant noise, the heavy tramp of booted feet, the raucous sonority of their voices as they called suggestions to each other, all intensified the terror, the tumult of their uncontrolled and turbulent presence.
The wind sang like a trump, and from far away the reverberations of a train of cars came with a sort of muffledsonority that was almost indistinguishable from the vibrations of the earth.
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.
This is no less true of the decasyllabic verse, when compared with the full sonority of Lycidas, than of the shorter measures.
Of course this hasty translation is very poor; and you can only get from it the signification and colour of the picture--the beautiful sonority and luminosity of the French is all gone.
He opened the way for the sonority of tone and imposing diction of the modern style.
Both pieces, Ricordanza and Harmonies du soir, show to perfection the sonority of the instrument in its various aspects.
The instrumentation of his chamber music betrays more regard for sonority than for classic counterpoint.
The fact that they did add sonority was therefore but a subsidiary issue, and in climaxes such as the Finale of the Fifth Symphony, their mission was primarily that of lending grandeur and richness to the final scintillating tableau.
Not only were the resources for obtaining variety of individual and also of combined tonal effect thereby increased, but the ensemble of the full orchestra acquired greater firmness and sonority as well.
She tells Arkël that she does not wish the windows closed until the sun has sunk into the sea, and the orchestra accompanies her in a passage of curiously delicate sonority (page 295, measure 6).
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 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 above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sonority" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
