The qin was often played by Buddhist monks; complex cosmological and symbolic meanings existed for every aspect of its shape, constructional material, tone, and playing technique.
ICCs were transformed to Fisher z to normalize the data, and then compared in a mixed ANOVA with two repeated measures (electrode: F3, Fz, F4, C3, Cz, C4, Pz, T3 and T4, and material: tone, speech) and one between-subjects variable, group (SLI vs. control).
The "Reparation Hardware" video uses Restoration Hardware's audiovisual lexicon of solemn aerial drone footage and a light, bland score to set off the source material's tone of patronizing sincerity before gradually, and happily, going off key.
More often I try to include enough objective description of what is taking place onstage to give readers a clear sense of the material's tone and style, even if I also make it clear how little it amused or edified.
Art historian Robert Koch remarked in 1988 on the similarity of provenance, material, technique, tone and colour of the four works described by Eastlake.
The material — in tones of camel, white, hot pink and electric blue — gave a buoyant sense of energy to the clothes, but this was evident in the fit of the suits as well.
Particularly on their recent material – which tones down their guitars, and subtly draws on the influence of urban music and reggae – all four of them contribute to music that slips free of any generic tag, and Mozgawa is a particular revelation.
One of the miracles of this piece, and of Barber's music generally, is how an unlikely amalgam of materials — Schoenbergian tone rows, Bach-like counterpoint, bravura piano writing out of Rachmaninoff, joyful riffs of Gershwin-style jazz — coheres into a convincing whole.
For those that need a one-line crash course on granular synthesizers: they record audio samples and allow you to stretch, slice, and loop that source material until tones emerge.
Unlike many other health sites, Mayo writes its own material, with a tone that manages to be both conversational and precise, straightforward and sympathetic.
This film, by newcomer Rupert Sanders, approaches its material with a tone closer to The Lord of the Rings.
