Sentence examples for manipulation of tempo from inspiring English sources

There's not a word about rubato (a local manipulation of tempo) or portamento (the unbroken carrying of tone from one pitch to another), for good reason.

Mr. Eschenbach did show a tendency to rely too much on sudden manipulations of tempo to make expressive points, which sometimes turned the music-making a little jerky.

From there, Mr. Glass's journey includes manipulations of tempo and textural density, contrasts between slow-moving melodies and brisk accompaniments, and forays into the world of harmonic tension and chromaticism.

Mr. Thielemann, who has strong interpretive ideas about Germanic masterworks, strove for a weighty gravity, somewhat like Furtwängler's approach to the score, with bold manipulations of tempo, striking attention to inner details and textures and vivid musical characterization.

Even for admirers there are times when his manipulations of color, tempo or dynamics can seem fussy, or when the degree to which he thinks about phrasing and shape can place a work's simplest charms at an unnecessary distance.

The tasting menu reaches what may be its most sophisticated American form at Alinea in Chicago, where Grant Achatz composes meals that are almost like symphonies in their skillful manipulation of complexity, volume, tempo and harmony.

He appears fond of tempo extremes.

Tempo — we've talked a little bit about this before and this idea of tempo rubato here.

"It's fast, with a lot of tempo changes.

"We're looking at a change of tempo," he concedes.

He acclaimed Tobin's "refined sense of tempo".