Sentence examples for musical modes from inspiring English sources

Although he adopted new elements such as foreign musical modes, he rejected other musical traits as unsuitable to Arabian music.

Non-European influences abounded: ancient Jewish texts, Indian ragas, aboriginal and Oceanic languages and exotic musical modes.

Just in the number of musical modes Mr. Jones has assimilated into his work, he has surpassed Mr. Charles, who is himself sometimes called the Genius of Soul.

It's as if, in the boys' respective musical modes, the book has found a figure for Mar's embrace of vulnerability, and David's distrust of it.

During the synagogue service, the ḥazzan, or cantor, reads the service and declaims the scriptural lessons to certain set musical modes that vary with the season and occasion.

To a lesser extent there are illustrated scenes from the two major epics of India, the musical modes (rāgamālās), and the types of heroines (nāyikās).

Relative to healthy individuals, bvFTD was associated with bidirectional activity shifts and separable regional functional signatures of emotion modality (music versus nonverbal vocal) and processing level (musical mode versus dissonance) within a common distributed frontotemporosubcortical network.

We want to get into the musical mode — you have to focus, that's very important.

The idea was never to let the audience get too settled into any musical mode.

The performer improvises within the framework of the maqām, which is also imbued with ethos (Arabic taʾthīr), a specific emotional or philosophical meaning attached to a musical mode.

After that first summer they decided to form a quintet, choosing the name Dorian after the musical mode and the column (they liked its simplicity).