It will add an element of tone to our proceedings over the next few weeks".
Elements of its tone, style, sensibility, business model and workflow have colonised just about every other media company".
Kaija Saariaho's Asteroid 4179 - Toutatis is perhaps the most striking, Matthias Pintscher's rebarbative Towards Osiris the least personal; Mark-Anthony Turnage's Ceres makes intriguing use of a brass refrain that repeatedly cuts across the slowly unwinding chorale-like melody; and Brett Dean's Komarov's Fall compresses the narrative elements of a tone poem into a mere eight minutes.
Elements of 12-tone style turn up even in Broadway shows and film scores.
Although Weisgall's operas are the products of a skilled dramatist, his musical language, steeped in fitful Expressionism and spiked with elements of 12-tone writing, is craggy and challenging.
Composed in 1938, when he was still under the influence of his teacher Schoenberg and enthralled with Webern, this work shows Cage adapting elements of 12-tone technique to his own ends.
Then, to introduce the literary elements of mood and tone, I show three very different newspaper front pages from 9/12, including The New York Times.
These manually executed arts were thus no longer obliged to serve as the means of recording and disseminating information as they once had been and were eventually freed to explore aesthetically the basic visual elements of line, colour, tone, and composition in a nonrepresentational context.
Unknown, Maybe Unknowable Of course, science has not figured out how to measure other elements of musical expression, including tone, timbre, harmonics and how audience interaction changes what musicians do.
As usual, the judges used score cards separating the elements of a performance: swing feel, tone and so on.
