Sentence examples for changes of key from inspiring English sources

In between these vocal numbers she and her three-piece band weave graceful contrapuntal lines while negotiating some fiendish changes of key and time signature.

The piece is filled with little surprises: unexpected changes of key, sudden loud-soft shifts and, at the end of the Scherzo movement, a particularly interesting series of comic doodles and silences.

The Sarabande of the G minor English Suite, a slow dance, is music seemingly from outer space, so strange and powerful in its changes of key and melodic asymmetry that it could belong to any century.

In most of the songs, he's backed by an agile jazz trio featuring Matt Herskowitz on piano, which neatly executes all the changes of key and rhythm Mr. Manilow has plotted.

Using marimbas, glockenspiels, the human voice, human whistling and a solo piccolo, Reich proved that it was possible to compose a lengthy piece of music that moved on, not through changes of key, but by gradual rhythmic shifts and the occasional complete change in timbre (in this case from drums to marimba, to glockenspiel, to a combination of all three).

Aomame descends and notices the changes of key slowly: policemen's uniforms look a bit different; there are, she could swear, two moons in the sky (one of them perhaps made of paper); and it turns out she is a trained killer – her date is with a man she is to murder in a hotel room.

Put all the griefs of the world in that change of key".

Statements of the subject are often varied by transposition, with a corresponding temporary change of key.

Modulation, or change of key, was, like dissonance, increasingly explored during the common practice period.

Dogged polemicists, the Leeds art-rockers also devised a musical ethos that eschewed such decadent fripperies as "obvious harmonies" or "change of key".

(Modulation, unlike simple change of key, implies the establishment of a new tonic, or tonal centre, by means of progression through a number of related keys).