Sonority
What Sonority means in Music GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice, and it includes articulation, the way notes are played or sung.
The term for how a sound actually comes across, covering its nature and its quality.
Topics that use Sonority
- Appendix 3: Musical vocabulary - Sonority and texture (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
- Component 3: Appraising - Musical elements (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Texture
- Accompaniment and harmony
- Basic modulation and its signals
- Basso continuo
- Cadence types and their effect
- Changes of sonority
- Dotted rhythms
- Dynamic markings
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