Sentence examples for musical connotations from inspiring English sources

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The plainchant had symbolic as well as purely musical connotations.

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I rejected mixture because the word is lifeless; medley has gained a musical connotation; jumble stresses confusion; and gallimaufry, like its synonymous second-order reduplication hodgepodge, is derived from Old French words for "stew".

Inafune attempted to defend it due to the name's musical connotation to character names in the series.

Then came James Blood Ulmer's version, in a murkier vein and with a host of extra-musical connotations.

Of course, the saxophone, violin, grand piano, kora and kazoo all have their own extra-musical connotations and emblematic forms.

The quest for the real — a term whose proliferating connotations in the musical seem derived, in equal measure, from postmodern literary theory and from hip-hop — begins in Los Angeles in the 1970s.

Musical instruments often carried erotic connotations in works of art of the period, and lust was referred to in moralising sources as the "music of the flesh".

We don't think her musical performance, which involves so much sexual connotations and unusual costumes, is appropriate for youngsters' emotional development".

This may be a writing collaboration that will take this "musical" as far away from the chirpy connotations of that label as can be imagined.

Black artists tend to distance themselves from the word and its connotations of white performers, rock's musical ingredients and the aesthetic of self-marginalizing.

Heylin points out that the Old Testament connotations of getting stoned made the Salvation Army-style musical backing seem like a good joke.

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