The first movement, "The City and Its Double," begins with a restless wash of murmuring sounds and rhythmic fragments.
Sometimes a buzzing low note on a tuba, or swelling sustained trombone tones, or some fragment of an ascending whole-tone scale, would break through the texture of murmuring sounds.
Reading his melodic nonsense lines, one might entertain the thought of Lear as a kind of comic Tennyson, with the same gift for murmuring sounds disguised as philosophy and then, reading Uglow, one discovers that Lear and Tennyson were friends, sharing ideas and rhymes.
With a kind of manic elation, he was murmuring what sounded like You like me!
On the surface, these were typical orchestral dramas of the heroic soul, although Sibelius's habit of breaking down themes into murmuring textures sounded strange to many early listeners.
If the maid's wheezy murmur sounds familiar, it's because — oh, right — she's played by Macy Gray, who also narrates the film as part of a framing device that is never explained.
The song's lovely, even melancholy murmur sounds like a first snowfall, quiet reflection and a realization that the holidays inspire a whole world of emotions in addition to joy.
There was no regional adenopathy, and the physical examination was normal except for reduced vesicular murmur sounds on auscultation over the right lung.
"Put it in the trash!" But moments later he was murmuring to his sound engineer, "That's a peach, Walter".
