Sentence examples for instrumental forms from inspiring English sources

Sinfonia, plural sinfonie, in music, any of several instrumental forms, primarily of Italian origin.

After giving birth to the genre, Italy soon turned to opera, oratorio, and more independent instrumental forms.

Fewer instruments are used in Karnatak than in northern Indian music, and there are no exclusively instrumental forms.

Other instrumental forms of the period, the canzona and fantasia, closely resembled the ricercare, particularly in the use of melodic imitation, and the names were often interchanged.

All types of instrumental forms were performed by ensembles except for the prelude and the toccata, which were essentially keyboard works.

The beautiful introverted sounds of shakuhachi music seem closer to Buddhist chant than to other instrumental forms and are best learned by the ear and heart rather than by the eye and brain.

He was among the first Jamaican producer-musicians to use the studio as an instrument, and he pioneered the reggae instrumental form known as dub, in which sections of a rhythm track were removed and others emphasized through echo, distortion, repetition, and backward tape looping.

This approach is found not only in works entitled "sonata," such as Giovanni Gabrieli's Sonata pian' e forte (Soft and Loud Sonata) of 1597, which was one of the first works to specify instrumentation in detail; the instrumental fantasia and the canzona, an instrumental form derived from the chanson or secular French part-song, display a similar sectional structure.

In its instrumental form, grime retains its London roots.

But "Böse Zellen" is riveting from start to finish — a sweat-inducing drama in instrumental form.

But "Böse Zellen" is riveting from start to finish a sweat-inducing drama in instrumental form.