Sentence examples for handful of notes from inspiring English sources

As a trumpet tosses a handful of notes skyward, he might hurl himself down the stairs, answering every note as he falls.

The fiction writer has to serve all those functions alone, with his prose, selecting information so a handful of notes let readers hear the symphony.

For another type of Ainu song, two women and a man sang rounds: short, overlapping lines that rotated through a handful of notes like the tonkori melodies.

It's as if Beethoven had stripped a whole symphony down to a handful of notes, each deployed in a way that evokes great flights of composition.

Mr. Scofield often bends and unbends strings, making a handful of notes curve together into true harmony and then curdle into dissonance.

Downes is more of a choosy, patient storyteller, and if one of his distinctive original themes only requires a handful of notes and a lot of spaces, he leaves it like that.

Ms. Sutter used this strong instrument in the world premiere of a new piece by Mr. Glass, "Songs and Poems for Cello," and she tore into the opening, grabbing handfuls of notes, while the cello richly savored the music, now declaiming, now singing and occasionally squawking at a moment of particular intensity.

The track has a rubbery electronic bass line, and a handful of synthesizer notes that squeal like fireworks, but, as throughout "Ratchet," the arrangement is minimal, using not much more than programmed drums and synthesizers, and leaving plenty of room for Shamir's voice.

At the beginning of "Lull" just a handful of piano notes add up to something oceanic, filling a full minute before she enters with a soft whisper.

In contrast, during my 25 years of caring for humans I have written only a handful of similar notes to families after a loved one's death.

Eastman's own compositions for multiple piano, with titles such as Evil Nigger and Gay Guerrilla, convey Wagnerian grandeur with a handful of repeated notes.