Obstruent voiced obstruents are common. This contrasts with sonorants, which are prototypically voiced and only rarely voiceless. Obstruent An obstruent is a speech sound such as , , or that is formed by "obstructing" airflow. Obstruents contrast with sonorants, which have no such obstruction and so resonate. All obstruents are consonants, but sonorants include both vowels and consonants. Obstruents are subdivided into plosives (oral stops), such as , with complete occlusion of the vocal tract, often followed by a release burst; fricatives, such as , with limited closure, not stopping airflow but making it turbulent; and affricates, which begin with complete
The Sound and The Fury (vocal ensemble) Darnell (tenor), Christof Hartkopf (baritone). "Vokalsolisten Ratisbona - the earlier group led by Thomas E. Bauer" "The Sound and the Fury - Paradise regained series for ORF (continued on FRA BERNARDO)" The Sound and The Fury (vocal ensemble) "See also Sound and fury (disambiguation)"<br> the sound and the fury (founded 2005) is an Anglo-German vocal group convening in Brixen and Vienna, specialising entirely in performance of renaissance polyphony of the Franco-Flemish school. The core members of the group are Thomas E. Bauer (baritone) of Regensburg, whose earlier ensemble Vokalsolisten Ratisbona was the genesis of the ensemble, John Potter (tenor), and