Sentence examples for Musical gratification from inspiring English sources
On Friday night I had one of those only-in-New-York experiences, a mix of musical gratification and urban racket.
Page B17 Arts TRYING TO HEAR PIANOS IN THE URBAN OUTDOORS The nonprofit group Sing for Hope placed 88 pianos in public places in New York City for two weeks, lending listeners a mix of musical gratification and urban racket.
Anyone seeking instant gratification in musicals.
"Hard Candy" is devoted to the instant gratification of a musical sweet tooth — it's candy, not tofu — and, equally important, to the continuing commercial potency of "my store".
Given the recycled, dumbed-down level of all too many actual Broadway musicals, the best of the crop being first-class revivals, it is not a stretch to presume that "Copa" could satisfy expense-account tourist audiences and offer at least ephemeral gratification to old-fangled MGM movie musical fans.
That can have musical consequences: a push for the instant pop gratifications of catchiness, generality and a good beat.
Dance clubs and D.J. culture have long offered alternatives to pop's obvious hooks and instant gratification, an anti-jukebox approach to music: a chance to layer and linger over musical ideas, to forge unexpected connections, to surprise the mind while the body keeps dancing.
A musicologist, Susan McClary, is on orthodox critical ground in describing sonata form, the core musical structure of male-dominated 19th-century music, as "a process of arousing expectation of a single climax and then delaying its gratification".
The currency of the dance floor is instant gratification, the quick hit, with any greater depth or nuanced musical tropes wantonly abandoned in the rush for the next euphoric controlled explosion to sustain the mood of hedonistic abandon.
Instantaneous gratification.
