Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sound.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sound; a tune; a call.
- noun Sonancy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A sound; a tune.
- noun The quality or state of being sonant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
sound ; atune . - noun obsolete The quality or state of being
sonant .
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Examples
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With soft lightings, calming sonance of a river stream and feet relaxed in a warm pool, witness a school of Turkish spa fish swim up and gently nibble on your feet.
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_ IV, ii, 35, where the Constable of France orders the trumpets to 'sound the tucket-sonance, and the note to mount,' which fits in with Markham's definition, for the passage appears to recognise the tucket as in some sort a _preparatory_ signal.
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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The Emancipation of Re:sonance continues through Feb. 14 at the Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street, Manhattan; 212 319-5300, acfny.org.
NYT > Home Page By STEVE SMITH 2012
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The title of the series alludes to Schoenberg's precept; "re:sonance," so punctuated, implies both history and sound.
NYT > Home Page By STEVE SMITH 2012
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Both notions figure into the Emancipation of Re:sonance, a concert series presented in conjunction with the Manhattan New Music Project in which contemporary artists are asked to provide fresh perspectives on works by canonical Austrian composers.
NYT > Home Page By STEVE SMITH 2012
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