sonority

The first three movements are the best; the only charm of the fourth being its sonority, for the musical contents are poor.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
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.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
The hymn began to repeat itself, the individual words lost in the sonority of the hall.
The Jewels of Aptor|Samuel R. Delany
From the phonetic point of view we may think of words and groups of words as consisting of a series of sounds of varying sonority.
The Sounds of Spoken English|Walter Rippmann

We may indicate the sonority very roughly by lines; if we connect their top ends, we shall obtain a curve.
The Sounds of Spoken English|Walter Rippmann

Origin of sonority