But mostly it was kinetic music whose shape was dictated by the fast actions of the musicians: all were playing as intensely as they could around a basic idea, with Mr. Brown getting a hard, slicing touch on fast, abstract lines, the bassist Charnett Moffett slapping the strings with his thumb and the drummer Chris Dave clattering out tough fills.
In the new three-movement pattern, a minuet sometimes replaced the fast, abstract finale.
While copy and pasting sentences together is a fast way to create an abstract, you should add transitions to make those stand-alone sentences make sense as a whole paragraph.
Grooving on a fast theme, the band quickly went abstract: Mr. Zenon's tonal center was nowhere near Mr. Benítez's, and he alternated fast, rhythmic bebop lines with ballad tones that floated long and gently until touching back down.
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In Short Ride Out by Annie-B Parson, performed to a snappy percussion solo, Whelan delivers a fast succession of struts, turns, kicks, finger-flicks and other abstract articulations.
The 14-story building on the main campus of Swedish Medical Center, the largest hospital in Washington State, has a spacious lobby adorned with abstract art, a fast-food restaurant, a chain pharmacy and light and airy corridors with sleek wood trim.
As with "Why Won't You," his first video for the band, "Firecracker" is an abstract audiovisual treat; a fast-paced testament to Thockler's photographic skills and eye for animation.
In "Pursuance," the suite's third part, Mr. Marsalis played loud, fast and abstract, staying in the bottom range of his saxophone with a bright tone.
"The culturally specific," said Stephen Daldry, the British theater director, "in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing, has seemed to have very little relevance to a much more fast-flowing, abstract, experimental drama that has been emerging in this country".
A former principal dancer with Maurice Béjart, Mr. Weiland will present two linked premieres that focus on truth and humans' infinite capacity for self-deception, in a modern-dance style that has been described as fast-paced, abstract and technically demanding.
