sons
Definition of the French term sons in music:
- notes
- sounds
Language
French
Singular
son
Plural
sons
Combinations
French musical terms that include sons:
- glissez des sons harmoniques – glissando on the harmonics
- partition en sons réels – concert score, score in C
- sons d'echo – echo sounds (notes repeated softly to imitate an e...
- sons de flageolet – harmonics (notes produced by lightly touching a st...
- sons écrits – sounds as written (play the notes as written)
- sons harmoniques – harmonics (notes produced by lightly touching a st...
- sons pleins – full sounds (notes played with maximum resonance a...
- sons réels – sounds as written (play the notes as written)
Musical examples
Music scores that include sons:
- Charles Koechlin: Horn Sonata (1918‑25) Page 5
- Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird: VII. Finale (1919) Page 4