With only two exceptions within the three films combined in which women sing, male voices intone in a unison reminiscent of group prayer or the recitation of ritual litanies.
In "Visual Cliff" Ms. May drew on some material from an older work, "Discrete Body Dilemma," which included a unison phrase of low, brushing leaps and darting turns.
A Unison survey of more than 2,000 local government employees has found that part-time staff feel marginalised after being asked to work long hours on little pay.
On "Wade in the Water" and "Go Down, Moses," however, Jones improvises delicately, and on "We Shall Overcome" he pauses after a unison statement of the melody, Haden begins to "walk," and Jones suddenly lifts into four ringing choruses of the blues, his single-note lines sparkling and his chords bell-like.
The crowd that had gathered exhaled a unison sigh of relief.
Every stretch of the music was full of commotion; the higher-pitched instruments would land on a note and make a massed unison of it, while the rest of the ensemble churned away in contrary harmonic motion.
To a score for electronically modified stringed instruments, composed and played by Christopher Curtis, Ms. Argyriou, Ms. Chatziantoniou and Ms. Gorou rolled on the floor, struggled over an apple and finally took a unison munch out of it.
The priests expressed "in something of a unison" that the new missal "is more of a burden than a blessing".
The voices at the end of "Simon Boccanegra," crying out for peace; the voices at the end of "Un Ballo," overcome by the spiritual greatness of a dying man; and, most unforgettably, the voices of the Hebrews, in "Nabucco," remembering, in a unison line, the destruction of Jerusalem.
But Vernon's additions onstage — a glowing and receding guitar line, a brief, thunderous unison of tomtom drums — anchor and frame the songs.
