Sentence examples for musical overtones from inspiring English sources

The term, with its musical overtones, refers to the dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who he or she is, takes on another identity and creates a new life somewhere else.

Theoreticians describe the interactions of musical overtones, but mostly what I feel is the interactions of energies.

Memphis outclassed another musical with racial overtones, the celebratory South African revue Fela!, to win four 2010 Tony Awards, including best musical.

"Next we're doing a Technicolor musical with racial overtones".

Matilda is a musical with Dickensian overtones -- nasty parents and fiendish headmistresses.

Individual sound perception also determines preference for certain musical instruments and music styles: Spectral listeners favor overtone-rich instruments (e.g. organ, saxophone) as well as opera and jazz music, whereas dominant holistic listeners prefer high-pitched and/or percussive instruments (e.g. trumpet, piano, drums) and rhythmic beats [2].

Several literary critics suggested that Mr. Obama's decision to include "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead on his reading list may have had more political overtones than his musical selections.

Last year's observations spotted the first and second "peak" in the microwave background spectrum--something akin to hearing the fundamental and first overtone of a musical instrument.

But the core of its transmission, the collective unconscious of that music, is in the overtones and undertones, the moods and intimations of the sound of those recordings, and Van Gelder is its listener of genius, its revealer of hidden connections — a sort of musical psychoanalyst whose science had a transcendently spiritual dimension.

The essential idea is the creation of a new way of structuring the parameters of music by exploring the harmonic series, the overtones that are part of every musical note.

Whilst remaining utterly devoted to his musical heritage, the combination of commercial pop overtones and music industry savvy means his influence over artists such as Sting and The Rolling Stones is still going strong.