Sentence examples for emphasis of the second from inspiring English sources

The pianist and composer Lennie Tristano left a legacy that seems to go radically against the grain of jazz in the be-bop era: for the most part, his surviving music sacrifices dynamics and the ecstatic spilling-over of swinging rhythm sections; on his records, drummers tick like metronomes, avoiding the emphasis of the second and fourth beats.

To test his thesis, Gibbons proposes some fieldwork based around the work of Fred Below, the Chess Records session drummer who pioneered the rhythmic pulse of rock'n'roll, placing the percussive emphasis on the second and fourth beats of the bar.

The move finds Amazon putting a stronger emphasis on the second part of the "smart speaker equation".

Therefore, as shown in Figure4, the weights put a lot of emphasis on the first few components.

No more the civil rights emphasis of the first musical version.

While the ode is written "to a Nightingale", the emphasis of the first line is placed upon the narrator rather than the bird, and Helen Vendler suggests that the negation of the reader as a party in the discourse happens just as the song of the nightingale becomes the "voice of pure self-expression".

Colleges and universities have traditionally placed most of their emphasis on the first year, Ms. Schneider says, but those efforts are wasted if most students arrive later.

Particularly in analyzing the earlier stages in the process known as al-nahḍah ("renaissance"), Western historians have for a long time placed much more emphasis on the first of these factors.

The annual report on the State of Brazil's Children, 2006 places emphasis on the first 6 years of a child's life, a phase of fundamental importance for wholesome development of the individual.

He put a deadly emphasis on the first syllable of the word "Guardian", managing to make it sound truly frightening.

It also underscores the WHO HIVDR monitoring strategy, putting an emphasis on the first year of cART.