Sentence examples for aural images from inspiring English sources

Stockhausen's music contains some of the great, defining aural images of 20th-century music, on a par with the flute that opens Debussy's L'après-midi d'un Faune or the upward swoop that ends Schoenberg's Erwartung.

It comes as a kind of update to the stir-fry of visual and aural image.

But perhaps the piece of classical music that provides the most vivid aural image of this revolutionary year is the Italian Luciano Berio's Sinfonia.

Although the cast's mutual encouragement of one another often sounds more pro forma than spontaneous, when the mixed company is stepping together or contributing to the rhythm in pairs, the aural image of unity is persuasive and rousing.

It is hard, and perhaps wrong to try, to separate Van der Aa's music from the whole experience: you come away with an aural image of long brass lines riding across lurching, urgent unison string figures.

The red army of Portuguese, who occupied almost three-quarters of the 65,000-seat stadium, provided an aural mirror image.

Music by Vivaldi was naturally the aural counterpart to the images; the performances included particularly distinguished playing by John Abberger and Marco Cera in the Concerto in D minor for Two Oboes (RV 535).

"Kindless Villain" creates a haunted landscape with an aural fragment from "Hamlet" and images of two wandering boys.

The composer said in her program note that she had long been exploring music as a collection of pulsing "sound images," almost the aural equivalent of a visual series of dots.

Beginning with the use of Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" (1973) on the soundtrack of "The Exorcist," minimalist-derived music became "aural wallpaper" for an increasingly image-driven culture.

She has described the album, with its portrait by Mapplethorpe, as "my aural sword sheathed with Robert's image".