Sentence examples for middle voice from inspiring English sources
noun
The form in which the subject of a verb performs some action upon itself.
However, the cello mostly plays a middle voice.
Much of the part sits comfortably in his middle voice.
"A viola is a middle voice — it has to be alert to everything around it," he said recently.
It consisted of a traditional chant in the middle voice, accompanied by a newly composed descant and bass.
Michal Shamir's Sieglinde had a dark, firm middle voice that went to a kind of yodel on top.
Chant from western Georgia often incorporates dense chords and a busy bass line; chant from eastern Georgia has an ornamental middle voice and a simple bass line.
"But then she told us she wants certain kinds of voices, high voices, low voices, middle voices".
He digs into his harpsichord, a huge-sounding modern Dutch instrument, and produces dark, nutty tones with chunky middle voices and gnarly chordal textures.
To create that sound as a conductor, Mr. Vanska said, he focuses on the middle voices — the violas, second violins and second-chair winds — and thus is forced to look more deeply into the score.
Arthur Schnabel's recommendation was to stress the extremes, the soprano and the bass, and leave the middle voices in the background — but this, Brendel quarrelsomely insists, "will get a great deal of clarity but a totally wrong atmosphere".
Bringing out the middle voices of "Romeo and Juliet" rather than milking the main themes, playing it with a kind of Rossini-esque agility, had the effect of telling the story with a strong Italian accent.
