plangent in English

adjective
1
(of a sound) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy.
In outline, his play sounds like plangent melodrama.
synonyms:melancholymournfulplaintivesonorousresonantloud
adjective

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1. She's Brimming with feeling, singing the plangent and rebellions song

2. 21 Entering St Petersburg Conservatory at he shocked his professors with his angular harmonies, jagged rhythms and plangent colours.

3. 7 Doubtless there are grizzled old dead-heads who got sober listening to the plangent harmonies of Dark Star.

4. Formed in Jamaica in 1968 by Bernard Collins together with brothers Linford and Donald Manning, the Abyssinians' close three-part harmonies were utterly orthodox, yet profoundly visionary, incorporating plangent minor keys, a leisurely tempo and strong Rastafarian content -- key elements of roots reggae.

5. Formed in Jamaica in 1968 by Bernard Collins together with brothers Linford and Donald Manning, the Abyssinians' close three-part harmonies were utterly orthodox, yet profoundly visionary, incorporating plangent minor keys, a leisurely tempo and strong Rastafarian content -- key elements of roots reggae.