Sentence examples for horn call from inspiring English sources

Ligeti uses one of the most familiar tropes in music, a horn call, as a crucial motif.

He asked Ms. Keefe to demonstrate how Ligeti introduces the horn call in the violin in a tweaked, unsettled way.

The first movement opens bravely with a solo horn call that gradually develops into a more-spacious melody that reappears in the full orchestra.

Bruckner ultimately scrapped the halting scherzo, with its repeated quizzical solo horn call, in favor of an altogether superior, more assertive proclamation.

In contrast, the horn call in the second act of Siegfried is changed in The Twilight of the Gods from 6/8 to 4/4 time, becoming the theme for the matured and heroic Siegfried.

The piece unfurled with magnificent slowness and space, as Blomstedt conjured the vast vista of the opening theme, beginning with an archetypal horn call and growing into a celebratory climax.

The work begins with quizzical solo horn calls that soon overlap into disjointed phrases.

One of the experienced sabs used horn calls to distract the hounds, giving the fox enough time to escape.

The finale, "O Manhattan," begins with beckoning offstage horn calls, then segues into a hymnal passage for melting strings.

You never quite trusted your inclination to be soothed by the cowbells and the pastoral horn calls, the lyrical passages for wistful strings.

In "On the Hunt" she evokes, transforms and distorts the musical associations of horn calls with hunting and the Romantic hero.