Sentence examples for are played simultaneously from inspiring English sources

African drumming is polyrhythmic: conflicting rhythms are played simultaneously.

The movements are played simultaneously with those performed by competing groups.

Popular dance styles are deployed to dramatic effect in the ballroom scene in "Don Giovanni," in which an aristocratic minuet, a popular contredanse, and a working-class Deutscher are played simultaneously, in three different meters.

Often, they strove for the widest possible meaning, the most ambiguous resonances; the musical equivalent might be the organ stop known as a "mixture," in which tones of related pitch are played simultaneously by a single key.

As with the dance, so with the music, for which, as composer Andrew Culver explains: 'Five layered sequences of 19 compositions each are played simultaneously yet non-synchronously.' Whatever the mechanics, the result is hauntingly strange.

In the theatre, there are times when two scenes are played simultaneously, and when a character from one scene walks into another on the other side of the stage.

Multiple news broadcasts are playing simultaneously, and a real-time earthquake map is tracking the region's seismic activity.

More seriously, the fact almost 1,000 gamers are playing simultaneously on the website (MMO stands for "massively multiplayer online") demonstrates not only the popularity and addictiveness of the game, but also the power that in-browser games can harbour.

At the moment, both theaters are playing simultaneously, but if the Folksbiene switches to fall and spring seasons, that won't be a problem, and in any case they are as likely to stimulate each other's ticket sales as compete for them.

In the huge amphitheater of the sky, several weather systems are playing simultaneously -- rain to the south, cumulus clouds to the north -- but for the moment the feature attraction is directly overhead: azure skies, not a cloud above, and the sun warming the air to an astonishing 35 degrees.

The middle of the track features a polyrhythmic structure, where two pieces of music in different time signatures are playing simultaneously.