Sentence examples for flat of the hand from inspiring English sources

The score instructs the pianist to represent cannon fire at various points by striking "with the flat of the hand, as many notes as possible, and with as much force as possible, at the bass of the piano".

And, at times, if these chords exceed the number of tones that you have fingers on your hand, it may be necessary to play these either with the flat of the hand or sometimes with the full forearm.

The performance of keyboard tone clusters is widely considered an "extended technique"—large clusters require unusual playing methods often involving the fist, the flat of the hand, or the forearm.

At about the same time that "Turkish music" was coming into vogue in Europe, a fashion for programmatic keyboard music opened the way for the introduction of another kind of noise in the form of the keyboard cluster, played with the fist, flat of the hand, forearm, or even an auxiliary object placed on the keyboard.

In this test the patient presses the abdomen with the flat of the hand and attempts to keep the arm in maximal internal rotation.

But no matter how many musical events tumbled on one another -- darting contrapuntal lines, splatterings of notes, undulating shimmers, hellbent outbursts of chords that climaxed with clusters played with the flats of the hands and forearms -- the music sped by with uncanny clarity.

"For when you come to think about it," he muses, "which is the 'real' shape of the glowworm: the insignificant little creature crawling about on the flat of your hand, or the poetic spark that swims through the summer night?

Wonder went into a song from the show, "The Stevie Ray Blues," marking the fourth beat in the bar by using his elbow or the flat of his hand variously against the seat back, the edge of the seat, the door handle, and Birdsong's ribcage, and singing, "Let's rock"—thump "rock the house tonight.

Pack the soil firmly around the root ball using the flat of your hand or the flat side of a trowel.

She raised the flat of her hand in the air as she described how the curtain would roll up.

When you have a full layer in the bottom of the pan you can turn the grapes with the flat of your hand and see all of the small stems that are still stuck to the top of the grapes.