Sentence examples for broken phrases from inspiring English sources
We used to play a style called peckin', broken phrases … nobody does that any more".
In fact, she speaks just enough English to serve as a kind of Orientalist doll who chirps cute broken phrases when Anglophones pull an invisible string.
His romantic style of improvising featured broken phrases, free accenting, and chromatic harmonies and depended upon virtuoso technique, all much like the style of the great innovator Charlie Parker.
Coltrane wasn't yet the meteoric inventor that he'd become after his six-month stint with Monk at the Five Spot, but his sound is searching, his tense rhythms and broken phrases pregnant with far-reaching ideas.
Near the end of that sonata, with a solemn march in the left hand and frisking triplets in the right, he found in Schubert's broken phrases an intensely moving demonstration of a man rethinking ideas and changing his mind.
Bernie McGann Bernard Francis McGannn), (born June 22 , 1937 Sydney, Australia died Sept. 17, 2013, Sydney) Australian jazz musician who played broken phrases that flowed together into rich arches of melody, with a hard, true sound on his alto saxophone.
The melodic tropes were normally broken into phrases that were repeated in performance (as aa, bb, cc,…) by alternating choirs.
Milton Babbitt's 1978 piece "My Complements to Roger" — playfully, not "Compliments" — was dedicated to Babbitt's teacher Roger Sessions and was played by Mr. Kuderna with an emphasis on the elusive lyrical connections between its broken little phrases.
The software breaks up phrases of audio and displays them as coloured bars laid out like words on a page.
In the opening exposition Mr. Harnoncourt's penchant for breaking up phrases into clear segments is in full operation.
Long, sustained notes suddenly broke into phrases that zigzagged up and down an octave or more; repeated refrains took on an insistent rasp and became springboards for elaborate leaps and arabesques; quick syllables turned into percussive exchanges with the band.
