Sentence examples for musical passage from inspiring English sources

Improvisation, also called Extemporization, in music, the extemporaneous composition or free performance of a musical passage, usually in a manner conforming to certain stylistic norms but unfettered by the prescriptive features of a specific musical text.

Subsequently we found that listening to what might be called "peak emotional moments" in music — that moment when you feel a "chill" of pleasure to a musical passage — causes the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, an essential signaling molecule in the brain.

Setting the right tempo for a musical passage is critical.

Ultimately, though, the final musical passage — meant to replicate the chilling exchange from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" — fizzled.

For instance, in certain places, they decided to install differently mixed versions of the same musical passage.

A fast musical passage might get a slow dance, a soft passage a give-'em-your-all dance.

Since music is not representational, what musical passages would he take as evidence for his theory, and why?

Too often extended musical passages seemed stretched out and indulgent.

The musical passages from "Così Fan Tutte" are reasonably well dubbed and the singing is adequate.

This is the rondo principle, which is based on the alternation of a refrain, or "ritornello," with contrasting musical passages.

Mr. Marsalis often calls in another neighbor, a teenager who plays violin, to test certain musical passages.