Sentence examples for double string from inspiring English sources

He commissioned Berkeley's Horn Trio, while the Concerto for Piano and Double String Orchestra was written for him.

Cello Concerto: Tout un monde lointain Métaboles Timbres, espaces, mouvements Symphony no. 2, Le double String Quartet: Ainsi la nuit.

On that visit the MCO joined the Bath Festival Orchestra that Menuhin had founded in a performance and esteemed recording of Tippett's Concerto for Double String Orchestra.

Rather than simply transcribing the original recording, a double string quartet, Mr. Reed employs metric shifts that give new accent to the piece's propulsive quality.

One of Joseph Haydn's numerous divertimenti is a sextet written for a double string trio, to be played by two groups simultaneously in different rooms.

4. Pilgrim, for Double String Orchestra (1998): music of compressed yet teeming invention, that veers from meditative calm to tremendous, lashing energy.

He mastered many string instruments, including the traditional guitar, but he is most renowned for playing the cuatro, which is smaller and has five sets of double strings, producing a more melodic sound.

Anouar Brahem is a Tunisian master of the oud, the Arabic lute, a pear-shaped, wooden box with five or six double strings that produce a dry, haunting sound.

In the three centuries since Antonio Stradivari and Giu-seppe Guarneri perfected the violin, the guitar has morphed from a thin-hipped little figure to a plump matron, trading double strings for single strings, in sets of four, five, six, or more.

This time round the governing body wants to be calling the shots on where and how innovation can be used, as in the past it has found itself having to ban some products already on the market and in use, such as the so-called "spaghetti-strung" racquets (with double stringing).

"I also put on some chorus effect -- this makes the guitar sound a bit like a tres or cuatro, traditional instruments in the Dominican Republic that use sets of double strings".