Sentence examples for long tone from inspiring English sources

Later, in a song called "Platform Velvet," they held a single long tone, dissolving into unison.

Mr. Brötzmann responded with a stretch of unusually songlike playing, one long tone after another, before resuming his eruptive norm.

A lot of old bandstand knowledge was compressed in that long tone, as there had been in his entire performance.

And she's a wizard of the long tone, which she uses to laser into deep emotional zones; she leaves brackets of silence, and phrases with microscopic care.

Elsewhere in the set, notably on Mr. Iverson's stark blues "Mellow B," Mr. Turner played a stream of 16th notes in his altissimo range, only occasionally tossing in a triplet run or landing on a long tone in his braying low register.

He hasn't quite turned his regular shows into social experiments, though perhaps that's coming: on Thursday he asked everyone in the crowd to hold a long tone for the opening of the love ballad "Slush," and to follow his dance moves in the garage-band rave-up "Pilchard".

He's a soft-toned player who knows when to intimate or play long tones or stop playing altogether: an older soul.

His Whitman-influenced long tone-poem "Towards Democracy" was passed from hand to hand by those who understood its hidden homosexual message.

Carpenter was the author of an undeservedly forgotten long tone-poem, Towards Democracy, a hymn to the unrecognised spiritual potential and physical splendour of the British working man.

"Long tones are like meditation".

He plays long tones to get the full sonority of the recording studio.