Sentence examples for affirmative music from inspiring English sources

The sentiment is touchingly conveyed in affirmative music that moves at a sturdy gait, like a gentle march, and abounds in sunny melodic lines.

YW: I came back from the Grammys two weeks ago feeling there is very little affirmative music in contemporary America, and has not been for the last fifty years, because what passes as affirmative is really rather imperial and militaristic.

"We've always tried to make music that is affirmative, happy music that makes a positive point," Mr. Staples once told an interviewer.

If Aaron Copland (objective, affirmative, wide-ranging) was the Updike of American music, then Samuel Barber (subjective, melancholy, lyrically abundant) was its Cheever.

The music in her heart is much more affirmative.

At the end, Jimmy asked me: "So, do you plan on making music your career?" I answered in the affirmative, presumably dreaming of a career as a rock star at that point.

The center of his music has always been a defiant delicacy a ragged, affirmative understanding of despair.

He posed a troubling possibility to them, "What would happen to your music industry -- Hip-A-Hop -- if affirmative action policies were enforced by the government?

In both instances, the music is fused with racist sentiment, first in an affirmative sense and then in a critical one.

Big Boi's preposterous album title is a reminder of Frank Zappa's old question "Does humor belong in music?" At least two fall albums answer in the affirmative.

Shostakovich, who was a great admirer of Stravinsky and had been influenced by his music, had no alternative but to answer in the affirmative.