Sentence examples for descending scale from inspiring English sources

The diapasons were tuned according to individual preference, usually in a descending scale from the lowest principal string.

He wrote "Forget Regret," an elegant love song (sung, on the record and at the Apollo, by Stephanie McKay) based on a descending scale.

The temptress's hate and pride shine forth in top notes that simply blaze, followed by a descending scale that bristles with determination.

Moving to a higher plane, Mr. Morris opens "Falling Down Stairs" with the descending scale that begins Bach's Third Cello Suite.

All compounds taking part in redox reactions are ranked in a descending scale according to their ability to act as electron donors.

Then we'll have this descending scale that Pachelbel didn't write and then his canon will start, and you can see how this works here.

This practice evolved from first rendering descending scales (called rounds).

Her descent matches one of the great descending scales in Tchaikovsky's music.

Mr. Mostel describes his score as "an adventure in scales," and so it is, particularly in descending scales.

Pairs of instruments play spectral ascending and descending scales, with the second part sounding as an echo.

As the mechanism begins to roll, so does Martin Creed's sound installation Work No. 1196, Piece for String Quartet and Elevator: a series of descending scales.