Sentence examples for birdcall from inspiring English sources

I was hauled upward by a borrowed dog on a makeshift leash, a yellow Labrador, busy for every birdcall and blown leaf.

There is a touch of Ives here: Tchaikovskian string writing weaves through more cheerful woodwind scoring and scratchy percussion sounds, with prominent musical figures (a birdcall of a piccolo line, for example) seeming to cue sudden shifts in mood and material.

That is, until I pulled out my phone with the birdcall app and started playing the barred owl song.

The pianist Ursula Oppens, a founding member of the American Composers Orchestra and Mr. Hemphill's longtime companion, brought her customary intensity and precision to fidgeting tremolos and obsessively wheeling birdcall figurations, with handsome support from the ensemble.

Mr. Adams was influenced by Minimalism, and individual players in "songbirdsongs" often have a small riff, or cell — a birdcall, a rustle of leaves — that they repeat throughout a movement.

There was not a birdcall to be heard in that quartet or Mozart's Divertimento in F (K. 138; 1772), but there was an unaffected sincerity that sounded not too distant from nature itself.

A birdcall-like motif in the strings' high range opens the work, which moves through a crescendo to intense, energetic passages.

Ensemble SurPlus devoted most of its Tuesday program to thornier works, including Lukas Foss's Music for Six (1978), with its undulating, birdcall-like theme and hazy textures, and Brian Ferneyhough's "Coloratura" (1966), a characterful, pointillistic score with an appealing, virtuosic oboe line.

There was "Rolling in the Green," with plunkety-plunkety of detuned violin strings and Ms. Ptak's demented lullaby reading of the title; "Try It Twice" was marked by a repeated falling-down-stairs pattern weakly played on the drums by Mr. Eisenberg and the up-and-down, sick-birdcall scratching of Ms. Ptak on violin.

All this, with his use of folk songs and hymns and blues and birdcalls, his little snatches of homage to George Gershwin or Aaron Copland, and the freight-train urging of his playing, gave his jazz a flavour less of smoky dives than of open skies and plains.Critics attacked him for getting rich from it.

An important characteristic of full-fledged human languages in contrast to birdcalls and traffic signs is their productivity.