Sentence examples for musical medium from inspiring English sources

Outside of a few catchy theme songs here and there, television -- outside the genres of music videos and variety shows -- isn't generally thought of as a musical medium.

Television cannot otherwise be accepted as a musical medium, until sets have a higher standard of musical reproduction.

Yet as with his conversion to the value of gramophone recording, his acceptance of television as a musical medium has been wholehearted.

When he introduced his Authenticité campaign, in 1971, with the aim of ridding the country of foreign influence, he designated the great soukous orchestra O.K. Jazz the official musical medium for conveying his doctrine.

The Observer's Philip French was a fan, calling it "a very likable, relaxed film", while Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw wrote that "the film makes a tacit but eloquent case for punk being a great, liberating musical medium... there's a refusenik genius in one song's roar of nihilist anger against the pedicurists who cut their toenails".

Faced with an unfamiliar live and musical medium, superb cinema directors can seem out of their depth: no close-ups, no fascinating camera-angles, and certainly no relying on the dramatic expertise of those in the leading roles, who are not generally selected for their acting.

In all musical mediums the solo performance is the most spectacular.

But more alarming than the death of records labels, is the continuing degradation of musical mediums.

They included Hattie Collins, music editor at i-D Magazine, who said: "One of the strengths of the Sound Of list is the democratic, diverse range of people that are invited to vote, with people from all musical mediums from the established rock critic to the upcoming urban blogger.

Although I love film as a medium, musical videos became boring for me.

Broadway writers have long used the musical as a medium to call for tolerance and racial harmony, as in Finian's Rainbow and (by Hammerstein) in South Pacific.