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• n  having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

• A wonderful example of what the Italians call a basso cantante ("singing bass"), he combines baritone agility with bass sonority and boom.
• In Manhattan last week alert listeners at a Philadelphia Orchestra concert noticed that in the Bach Toccata and Fuge the basses had a new, if perhaps unneeded, sonority and .
• He has voluminous sonority, a trenchant attack and a hot, mordant intonation.

• plangency
• resonance
• reverberance
• ringing
• sonorousness
• vibrancy

News & Articles

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• Charles Rosen's Lost Masterpiece
  Jim Holt Frédéric Chopin was “the greatest master of counterpoint since Mozart”—so claimed the late pianist and author Charles Rosen in a 1987 review in these pages. At the time I read this, it came as a double surprise to me. I had never thought of Chopin’s music as having a lot of contrapuntal interest. I had always imagined it to stress sonority over structure, to be more emotional—even ...
  July 27, 2013 - New York Review of Books

Quotes

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• Franz Liszt in Times Online
  Franz Liszt wrote that Chopin "particularly cherished" Pleyel pianos "for their silvery and slightly veiled sonority and their lightness of touch".
• Midori Goto in Newark Star Ledger
  Midori writes that the Hindemith Sonata "offers a rather different sonority from both the Beethoven and the Rautavaara, and its romanticism can be linked somewhat to Strauss."