Sentence examples for music picked from inspiring English sources
You've got to understand: She already had the dress picked out, she had the church picked out, she had the music picked out.
Like a lot of "world music" picked up by western audiences in recent years, Ethio-jazz appeals because it is simultaneously familiar and foreign.
During intermission, he dropped his program behind his seat and Keiko Nagata, a corporate bond analyst known as Kay and a fan of classical music, picked it up.
As the music picked up and the dramatic montage began, we heard the story of Daniela finding out about her cancer and saw photographs of her with a central-line bandage, her hair falling off in chunks.
He introduced them to local families, played them bluegrass music, picked through the script for false notes and drew up detailed maps of pastures, hickory groves and burned-out homes.
Gradually, as the music picked up, duets and trios and larger groups developed; the dancers began to seem like music itself, each one lending tone and color to the choreography, especially in a section when the full cast did a rhythmic squatting walk, with a flicked leg in front and a contracting torso, that made the stage pulsate with bouncing behinds.
Antheil's hard-driving and obsessive music picks up the barbaric rhythms and crunching dissonance of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" and carries things to extremes.
The Hackensaw Boys, from Virginia, rev up old-timey, bluegrass-flavored music, picking and fiddling through old rural songs and some pointed new ones.
Greg Garing has been a New York City stalwart for rural music, picking old string-band instruments and leading country jam sessions while paying attention to modern electronic sounds as well.
Mr. Willems's music picks up the hints of rhythmic, disco-influenced melody heard in Part 1, and pumps them into a heart-thumping, often-menacing sound that sometimes wails, sometimes softly growls.
Opening with a hushed murmur of bass drums, gongs and hand-cranked sirens, the music picks up momentum in its ninth measure when a military snare drum raps a jagged tattoo, bongos burbling alongside.
