Reiner, with his notorious microscopic baton beat, needed no more than a glance and a blink of an eye to extract the limits of musical dynamics and articulation from the orchestra.
(The full sentence is: "All we, like sheep, have gone astray".) In other numbers, too, Mr. Tritle labored over a word here, a comma there, to translate text and punctuation into musical gesture and articulation in the chorus, and then to carry it into the orchestra.
There are a few special symbols used in the notation scheme for denoting some musical features like articulation, ornaments etc.
Set to the serried flights and choppy rhythms of Ned Rorem's Violin Concerto, the choreography opts for a dedicated articulation of musical structure, using moves that are shaped as precisely as the score.
Aptly, the title of the track is the clearest articulation of the musical and emotional feel of the album as a whole.
She was not a roustabout, knock'em dead performer such as Elaine Stritch or Judy Garland (though the latter was a great influence); she quietly inhabited the centre of every song she sang and delivered it with flawless beauty, crystalline articulation and supreme musical intelligence.
But as a dancer (he also choreographs for musicals) he moves with astounding articulation, isolating every part of his body down to each bend of the knuckle.
Virtuosic fioritura and vivid articulation of text and musical texture were combined in a performance of prayerfulness, playfulness and uninhibited, unmediated expressiveness from eight singers and the organist Michael Papadopoulos.
In a production experiment, 20 performers were asked to manipulate values of 7 musical variables simultaneously (tempo, sound level, articulation, phrasing, register, timbre, and attack speed) for communicating 5 different emotional expressions (neutral, happy, scary, peaceful, sad) for each of 4 scores.
However, as Elizabeth Wichmann points out, they also have rhythmic and musical elements, achieved through the "stylized articulation of monosyllabic sound units" and the "stylized pronunciation of speech-tones", respectively.
