Sidetracks - Explorations of a Romantic Biographer (HarperCollins) are minor excursions down biographical byways but offer up insights I couldn't have anticipated.
Although simulations have shown relatively minor excursions above tolerable concentrations in patients with moderate RI, and the two patients in this study with moderate RI who were administered 10 µg exenatide tolerated it well, therapeutic escalation from 5 to 10 µg bid by patients with moderate RI should be done conservatively.
The emergence of distinctive patterns and juxtaposed meanings is undermined by the sheer number and frequency of these switches, then further disrupted by too many minor plot excursions and secondary character profiles.
McFerren, never one to pass up a good gag, ballasts even these minor key excursions with the delicate punch of a goofy glissando and other lighthearted sounds.
A telltale moment comes in the work's surprising lyrical interlude before the return of the heroic main theme — a ruminative passage in which a searching melodic line and gentle chords go through minor-mode excursions.
Pablo considered such excursions minor... he did, after all, always come back.
Examples of Sullivan's rare excursions into minor keys include the long E minor melody in the first movement of the Irish Symphony, "Go away, madam" in the Act I finale of Iolanthe (echoing Verdi and Beethoven) and the funeral march in the Act I finale of The Yeomen of the Guard.
Misteria Paschalia Highlights of the 2011 festival include Bach's Mass in B minor, and a salt mine excursion courtesy of the Venice Baroque Orchestra.
On that canoe trip, on our late afternoon excursion to a minor league baseball game with my son's uncle, Dad and grandpa, there were many precious moments.
Can any listener fail to be relieved, for example, when, in "Gute Nacht," the opening song of the cycle "Winterreise," the music slumps back into D minor after the painfully illusory hope raised by the excursion into D major?
