Sentence examples for by a single note from inspiring English sources

Ostade's colour schemes in his early period (1630s) are largely confined to a range of neutral bluish-grays and browns, sometimes enlivened by a single note of bright colour.

His Perspectives, which began on Thursday night and continues through tomorrow, is a four-concert potpourri variously devoted to experimental folk rock (last night), music of different styles linked by a single note (tomorrow night), and Mr. Byrne's own new work, probably the most exciting part of the proceedings for die-hard fans (tonight).

At long last, one of them broke the silence by plucking a single note.

It got there by sounding a single note -- low prices -- that attracted millions of mostly working-class Americans in search of everything from toilet paper to fishing rods.

It's fun to imagine that the writer had in mind Glass's aesthetic, in which "music with repetitive structures" undergoes constant, subtle change — perhaps with a riff that evolves by having a single note added to or subtracted from it each time around.

The character (as represented by Atkinson) plays a single note on a synthesiser in the performance of "Chariots of Fire", during the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.

"Being recognised by all who hear a single note is a God-given miracle," the statement continues.

I was struck by the phenomenon of a single note: an E suspended over a G-major dominant seventh, at the end of the first section.

It reassures the listener with a few constants: a brisk, quiet, ride-cymbal groove, played by the drummer Joe Talia, and a single note — an A — relayed through the piece by different instruments.

Vladimir Jurowski's latest contribution didn't contain a single note by Mahler, yet revealed his imprint on everything in it.

As he approached a small stage in the front rows, he halted a slow ballad to hold a single note, by circular breathing, for several minutes, shaking hands with the audience along the way.