Waga! Woge, du Welle,... ...... (Das Rheingold, Scene 1): The melody is pentatonic, using just five notes: E flat, F, A flat, B flat and C. The song begins with a two-note falling step (F followed by E flat), a figure which recurs in many musical motives throughout the Ring.
In my book "Listen to This," I devoted a chapter to the history of what is often called the basso lamento — a ground bass that falls, step by chromatic step, from the tonic note to the dominant.
Very often, the hawkers wouldn't take no for an answer, falling in step with my husband, relentlessly quoting specials and prices.
When he returned to the dance hall to find people queuing round the block, he took special pleasure in them falling a step back, impressed, as he walked by.
In sum, loopholes remain owing to falling a step short in the laws in defining ownership and allocating resources for making sure the provision of selling acid only with records to control access gets implemented.
The cause was a brain hemorrhage from a fall down steps at a bed-and-breakfast, her daughter, the actress Brooke Smith, said.
The murder investigation is given a further twist: a strange man falls in step with Tim, tells him that Hobbs is innocent and shows him a bag containing a butcher's knife.
Politically, however, Mr. Galvin has fallen a step or two behind his peers.
The Nets fell a step behind the re-energized Celtics in the first quarter.
Gender-benders are always present in her shows — along with a refusal to fall in step with everyone.
