To me the word "battle" sounds incongruous and unhelpful.
A noisy offstage battle sounded like a clanking invasion by the Blue Man Group.
Hours after being offered the job, Mr. Battle sounded stunned, using adjectives like "shocked," "thrilled" and "speechless".
When they pulled the lightsabers down in front of their faces, the toys unexpectedly lit up and emitted tinkly battle sounds.
Explosions on the hillside did not cause anyone on the set to jump, but the Golan settlers were initially quite alarmed by the battle sounds.
The original cast recording of "Gypsy," battle sounds from World War II, Patti Smith's debut album, and Tupac Shakur's single "Dear Mama" are among 25 recordings selected for the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.
(Chinen) TENOR BATTLE (Tonight and tomorrow night) If the concept of a tenor battle sounds old-fashioned, so much the better: Grant Stewart and Harry Allen, the chosen combatants, are mutual connoisseurs of a throwback style.
(Chinen) TENOR BATTLE (Friday and Saturday night) If the concept of a tenor battle sounds old-fashioned, so much the better: Grant Stewart and Harry Allen, the chosen combatants, are mutual connoisseurs of a throwback style.
There is a descriptive element in the music of many cultures, from the stylized sounds of falling rain and snow in Japanese samisen music to the vividly evoked plagues in George Frideric Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt (1739) and the bird calls, battle sounds, and so forth appearing in European music (instrumental and vocal) for several centuries.
The earliest-known use of the term in Premier livre des inventions musicales (1555; "First Book of Musical Inventions") by the Frenchman Clément Janequin clearly alludes to the composer's highly original programmatic chansons secular French part-songs containing extramusical allusions (e.g., imitations of battle sounds and birdcalls).
