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What does sonority mean?

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Noun
  1. The property of being sonorous.
  2. (linguistics) Relative loudness (of a speech sound); degree of being sonorous.
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In addition, deforestation has led to the scarcity of the wood needed to produce the particular sonority of the timbila instruments.
In the solo arias in the first and third acts, Pavarotti rang out the high notes with that clarion sonority that is unmistakably his.
Portugheis projected a rich sonority despite the fact that the keyboard was evidently bathed in sweat.
Enescu's compatriot, Mihaela Martin, handles well the composer's demands for texture and sonority.
Okada projected the mercurial shift of moods in Beethoven's Fantasie Op 77 with resonant sonority.
The violin ostinato and the solo oboe line create the veiled, damped sonority, as well as the effect of clair-obscur.

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