voluptuosum

Updated: May 4, 2025

In different ages an entirely different capacity of expression, often an exactly opposite color, has been attributed to each separate key. In the eighteenth century G-major was still a brilliant, ingratiating, voluptuous key indeed, in the seventeenth century, Athanasius Kircher goes so far as to call it tonum voluptuosum.

- The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 : Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English