Sentence examples for a repeated note from inspiring English sources

Where Monk would hammer a repeated note to signal the wrapping up of a phrase, Ms. Min played a rolling staccato with all four picking fingers.

There are passages in each where Feldman seems to be testing the listener's patience, seeing how long we can endure a repeated note or a dissonant minor second.

Frederic Rzewski's "Piano Piece No. 4" (1977) begins with a Minimalist gesture: a repeated note that morphs into a relentlessly pounding chord before abandoning the repetition and expanding toward both ends of the keyboard.

He moved in an instant from plush to pearly, giving subtly different colors to the iterations of a repeated note in the "Peter Grimes" Fantasy, Ronald Stevenson's eerie arrangement of themes from Benjamin Britten's opera.

In that piece, performed by Garrick Ohlsson on Wednesday evening at Alice Tully Hall, a serene melody is underpinned by a repeated note that becomes angrily more insistent until the calm is shattered, then seamlessly restored.

Mr. Evans, one of the great new jazz musicians from Philadelphia, can be a Monk-influenced bruiser with hiccuping accents and a way of stubbornly grinding a repeated note or phrase into the dust before he's done with it; Mr. Goldberg, who's got a steady job with the Joshua Redman quartet, is a tenacious post-bop player in a near-classicist style.

He plucked a steady rhythm, meanwhile, with a repeating note on one string while the other carried a melody line: sharing it with the voice and sometimes answering a vocal line with an instrumental refrain.

Akhtar Chanal Zehri, though he was introduced as a rapper, was backed by traditional instruments and seemed more of a folk singer, heartily intoning his rhythmic lyrics on a repeating note or two and, eventually, twirling like a Sufi dervish.

Thus, the repetition enhancement effect first demonstrated at a subcortical level by Chandrasekaran et al. (2009) seems to generalizes to repetition occurring in a number of different forms, such as single sound played repeatedly (i.e., the 'da' sound in [1]), a repeating melody, and a repeating note within a melody.

Knowing that the event will be repeated, note for note, step for step, makes its mechanical cynicism too transparent.

There are a few repeated notes and variation so the melody is really starting to sound like it has flair.