Sentence examples for mostly vocal from inspiring English sources

By the 1950s, female performers were mostly vocal harmonizers, and they had little in the way of independent reputations.

The program tonight is "With a Spanish Flair" with works (mostly vocal) by Schumann, Bizet, Granados and others; tomorrow, "Klezmer Madness" with the clarinetist David Krakauer.

The album contained mostly vocal arrangements in English and was likened by RPGFan reviewer Patrick Gann to compositions by The Beatles and for children's television shows.

Her debut album, The Milk-Eyed Mender, released in 2004, was mostly vocals and harp.

The legendary Billie Holiday was a vocalist with Basie for a short stint (1937 38), although she was unable to record with the band because of her contract with another record label; mostly, vocals were handled by Jimmy Rushing, one of the most renowned "blues bawlers".

Music as entertainment is mostly a vocal art played without ritual outside the court and still enjoyed by many people.

Van Peebles had begun a musical career with the album Brer Soul (1969), which featured a mostly spoken vocal style that prefigured rap.

The program was devoted mostly to vocal duets by Handel and Steffani, but the real showstopper was Steffani's "Gettano i Re dal Soglio," an odd, five-voice madrigal about the tyranny of love.

First of all, castrati were highly developed solo singers (their days in the chorus were as sans-surgery adolescents), whose job it was to evoke the fioritura of (mostly) Italian vocal writing.

The eunuch Wei Zhongxian (1568 1627) dominated the court of the Tianqi Emperor (r. 16201627) and had his political rivals tortured to death, mostly the vocal critics from the faction of the Donglin Society.

Based on guitarist Peter Buck's Byrds-like Rickenbacker chimes and Michael Stipe's mostly unintelligible vocals, songs such as Exhuming McCarthy (Stipe's aghast reaction to the Reagan era) sounded enormously significant.