Sentence examples for irregular phrases from inspiring English sources

Vivaldi's delectable arias, with their unexpected curves, jagged, irregular phrases, and gleaming string colors, reflect the seductive light and rhythm of Venice, his water-ringed home town.

Irregular phrases, modulatory schemes, and rhythmic force give evidence of Schubert's concern with form based on slowed-down and far-reaching harmonic motion.

The dreamy slower middle theme is daringly elusive, with irregular phrase lengths and chromatically restless harmony.

To make the case for Brahms as a progressive, Schoenberg pointed to his use of irregular phrase lengths, his unorthodox approach to structure, his daring way of building phrases from fragments and motifs rather than complete melodic lines and, most of all, his extremely chromatic and experimental harmonic language.

As Schoenberg was to point out in one of his remarkable essays, even Brahms, who looked upon himself as a conservative in the best sense of the term, was, historically speaking, a true "progressive," especially in his propensity for irregular phrasing and complex motivic manipulations.

Both themes progress somewhat in the style of variations, and are structured with irregular phrase lengths.

The themes generally do not form symmetrical periods, and irregular phrase lengths are prominent.

But even in this breezy early score, his music has modern touches: spiky harmonies, irregular melodic phrase lengths and some fairly involved vocal interplay.

"4" is nonstop, with a constant although changing pulse; "2" is irregular, with sudden phrases (some long, some short) alternating with rests.

THE airlines use the phrase "irregular operations" to refer to travel disruptions caused by blizzards, power failures and thunderstorms.

In a movement tentatively entitled "Little Procession," Monk starts to sing brief, questing phrases, in irregular, ever-changing rhythms.