Sentence examples for bursts of percussion from inspiring English sources
Sudden bursts of percussion explode within calmer textures.
Over a musical backdrop of chimes, feedback and bursts of percussion, the song at times teeters on the brink of exploding with emotion ("I just want to feel everything", Apple sings), but the restraint gives it power.
The orchestral background evoked the plush textures of Debussy, the piercing harmonies of Messiaen, clattering Cageian bursts of percussion, and atonal swaths that could have been Asian-tinged Berg.
A gently droning main theme on a dulcimerlike instrument sets the mood as other instruments enter with delicate sliding figurations, speckled bursts of percussion and sustained chords that sound entrancingly off-pitch.
Los Van Van's songs are an endless round of call and response: melodies tossed between voices and instruments, vocal lines followed by bursts of percussion, the band spurring the audience to shout and dance and clap.
It is founded on a principle of greatly prolonged dense, deep sounds, such as unison long and short trumpets with the double-reed or the seemingly endless bass chant of groups of monks, whose long drawn-out notes are punctuated by sharp extended bursts of percussion.
Aged 28, Rypdal (who played on Jan Garbarek's early albums and was one of the first long-term recruits to the ECM label) formed his Odyssey quintet in 1975, and part of this three-disc set is the band's debut studio album – a mix of dreamy sustain-pedal sounds, orchestral string-synth effects, and bursts of percussion-heavy rocking.
When the piece opened with a clanking burst of percussion and pianos, for example, the bride fretted about the tresses of her hair in phrases at once agitated and elegiac.
Most infectious are those tunes carried on sturdy techno chassis, with the singer's declamatory vocals bordered by bursts of sampled percussion and snaking synth lines, played by musical collaborator Rizan Sa'id, that evoke a squawking Levantine flute.
A burst of Latin percussion from the musicians' gallery kicked off Henry IV: Part I, performed by Mexico's Compañia Nacional de Teatro.
Frequent bursts of guitar and percussion.
