Sentence examples for a sustained tone from inspiring English sources
"a sustained tone" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It refers to a prolonged or continuous sound made by a musical instrument or a person's voice. Example: The pianist played with a sustained tone, filling the concert hall with the haunting melody of her composition.
Mr. Breslik brought youthful charisma and a sweet, bright tenor voice to Ferrando, though now and then some high notes seemed tight or a sustained tone wavered.
The group also offered Minimalism, of a sort, by way of Alvin Lucier's "Fideliotrio" (1987), an exploration of pulsations and timbre shifts within a sustained tone.
The electronics provided an understated beat or a few modest effects: a loop of his young son singing, an echo, a sustained tone.
Conceived and directed by James Lapine, Mr. Sondheim's frequent (and, to me, best) collaborator over the years, this somewhat jittery production never quite finds a sustained tone, a natural rhythm or even a logical sense of sequence.
Rather than bringing this movement to a defined close after the coda, Mendelssohn has a single bassoon playing a sustained tone provide the bridge to the overall restful mood of the second movement, "Andante," which is in ternary (ABA) form.
On the long high note that begins the first phrase of "Aure, deh, per pieta," from "Giulio Cesare," he presented a textbook demonstration of "messa di voce," the vocal technique in which a sustained tone begins softly, builds in sound and diminishes to the original soft dynamic.
Here, though, he seems to have difficulty in striking a seductively sustained tone.
Starting on a single, sustained tone low in the instrument's range, the unaccompanied flute line gradually takes shape as an alluring, gently chromatic fantasy.
Note that lap steel guitars are typically strung with heavy gauge strings, which allow for a beefier, more sustained tone when played with a slide.
It's precisely Richter's certainty, his integrity, the fact that music seems to speak with an Olympian objectivity at the same time as an impossible-sounding lyricism and sustained tone (listen to his extraordinarily slow yet convincing Schubert sonatas), without ever a shred of indulgence in virtuosity or sensuality for its own sake, that makes these performances definitively Richterian.
"There was a barber and his wife/And she was beautiful," he sings, letting the sustained tone on the word "beautiful" swell with shaky vibrato and linger with impotent longing.
