Sentence examples for instrumental colour from inspiring English sources

Instrumental colour is key.

Even instrumental colour was pressed into the service of melodic definition.

Rich displays of varied instrumental colour, and striking effects produced by sheer sonority, play little part in chamber music.

Yet the scherzo's depiction of the spirit world conveyed too little of the highly imaginative instrumental colour and, in the Andante's pastoral idyll, tension sagged.

There's also a greater variety of instrumental timbre; again, pieces such as Six Pianos or Violin Phase do what they say on the tin, using ensembles of acoustic or recorded versions of a single instrumental colour.

Intriguingly, it's exactly what Prokofiev does in Peter and the Wolf, giving each animal and human in his drama a different instrumental colour, as well as a new tune.

Ideally too, the instrumental colours need to bolder, less integrated into a homogeneous texture.

Conductor Michael Rafferty brings out both violence and lyricism, with Turnage's instrumental colouring wonderfully realised.

But, as ever, Otaka elicited eloquent playing from all departments of the orchestra, with Mahler's highly individual instrumental colouring vividly painted.

His gentle incantation of the final Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed was particularly beautiful, and Llewellyn handled the melancholic instrumental colours with great care.

Richly plaintive phrases are set awry by eccentric instrumental colours--four ocarinas and a slide whistle--and the altered tuning of certain winds and strings.