Sentence examples for elemental themes from inspiring English sources

In the "Rite" the visceral impact of Stravinsky's harmonic language often comes when he attaches piles of dissonance to elemental themes.

Bartok's First Piano Concerto, written in 1926, incorporates motifs of Hungarian folk music, though Bartok chooses elemental themes and presents them in fractured guises.

The event was the start of the orchestra's third Winter Festival, an annual series in which concerts linked by elemental themes are surrounded with lectures and exhibitions.

The author, an expatriate from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, writes about his homeland and its dying traditions, in tales that marry the elemental themes of Gaelic song (loneliness, sorrow, work, death) with a simple but deceptively modern narrative style.

The panel chair Patricia Clarkson said: "With elemental themes of isolation, alienation and the power of misunderstanding, How I Ended This Summer is a visceral psychological drama set in the immersive landscape of the windswept Arctic".

Mr Jones, who also directs and co-writes, has made a quiet, intimate drama with a small cast and very little story, but it's also a fully fledged epic, complete with elemental themes and bleakly beautiful vistas.

Besides bringing cultures together, Earth's goal is to highlight environmental issues, and a different elemental theme is chosen each year.

The truth, for Cusk, lies elsewhere, not in story but in history, in the notion of aftermath that she helpfully identifies (lest we fail to) as "the book's elemental theme".

In the first movement of the Sonata No. 21 in C ("Waldstein"), for example, most pianists revel in the relentless rhythmic drive of the music, which begins with an elemental theme, such as it is, built from obsessively repeated eighth-note chords, which soon break into steady streams of 16th-note oscillations and passagework.

With the band wanting to continue the elemental theme of the previous three albums, the photograph used on the front cover of the album is a picture of the band in a rowing boat which was taken inside Carnglaze Caverns, Liskeard, Cornwall.

From the opening moments, with the rustling string tremolos almost inaudibly soft and the horn's laconic statement of the elemental main theme, this performance exuded a calmly hypnotic steadiness.