Sentence examples similar to flat hymns from inspiring English sources
9 30 p.m. Mozart's Missa Brevis in B-flat, hymns and other works.
The "text" is a recording of Shaker women singing various hymns; their voices are flat and unassuming.
In a scene combining two of Offred's memories of the Time Before — watching Serena Joy's TV program, and making love to her husband, Luke — a stately D-major rendition of "Amazing Grace" is combined in stylistic counterpoint with a stretch of chuggy, A-flat-major minimalism: the hymn is simultaneously energized by the repetitive rhythms and dragged down by the flattened harmonies.
Mendelssohn wrote the choral Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, entitled Lobgesang (Hymn of Praise), to mark the celebrations in Leipzig of the 400th anniversary of the invention of the printing press; the first performance took place on 25 June 1840.
This second theme, a hymn-like E-flat major melody in four-part harmony, greatly contrasts with the first, though its melodic contour is prefigured in the sudden A-flat major departure.
Hymns frequently signal this immanence.
