The chorus wove a gossamer web around their voices, while, in the orchestra, the sound of a breathy flute rose over a quiet drone, and a hint of high strings.
Take Faculty of Fears, with its odd little hints of Queen, gaunt strings and references to Pythagoras, exemplifies everything that's likable here.
She continues, "Our souls dare to writhe like the rain and the clouds as one". The music at first is spare and eerie, just hushed, high-pitched tones, sounds of chimes and hints of gurgling lower strings.
Its sounds are nearly all synthetic, but with hints of breath, plucked string and resonating wood in them.
The sensational young Norwegian saxophonist and composer Marius Neset hinted at broader canvases with his fine small-group album Pinball, and its sparing applications of strings and woodwind.
There are hints of church chorales in the sustained string lines that soar intermittently above the melee.
Count the number of strings.
Note the number of strings.
There are long stretches where the alto saxophone almost floats, ruminatively or quizzically, above fidgety string writing with just hints of jazz in it.
In a paper that caused a sensation among string theorists, he uncovered hints of unexpected links between superstring theory and the standard model.
In the slow middle piece, "Aubade," melodic fragments are woven into strings of thick yet lucid chords with hints of Berg, Messiaen and Bill Evans.
