Sentence examples for musical speech from inspiring English sources

Brod goes on to say of Kafka: "as if to compensate for the remarkable gift he had of musical speech, he had no talent for pure music".

They all use the poet's organic free verse and deeply musical speech.

"Keren has made tremendous progress, and I'm sure she knows more about musical speech than I do at this point," he said.

It is not so much that music is a universal language as that all the countries of Western Europe employ the one musical speech.

This was a joint investigation into the deconstruction and reformulation of coherent musical sentences, and it focused quite deliberately on national anthems and folk melodies as sources of the basic units of musical speech.

It would even include Elliott Carter and Milton Babbitt, whose hyperarticulate musical speech, refining and redirecting Old World styles, differs essentially from the quasi-European pabulum of so many contemporary American concert composers.

To this aim, the database includes uncompressed audio files belonging to four different categories: Music, royalty free music audio tracks, with five different musical styles[16]; Speech, music audio files containing dialogues; Outdoor, audio files relative to recording outdoors; and Commercial, files containing dialogues combined with music, as often happens in advertising.

Heart rate variability and mean respiration rates were simultaneously measured and were found not to differ between musical and speech stimuli.

For one thing, it turns some of the score into melodrama, in the strict (and neutral) musical sense: speech over a running instrumental background.

Here, we use functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure brain activity patterns in 20 right-handed nonmusicians as they listened to natural and temporally reordered musical and speech stimuli matched for familiarity, emotion, and valence.

In the present study, we used band-pass filtered click trains that did not convey specific meaning and subjects were distracted from the auditory modality; therefore, it is less likely that subjects involuntarily processed and perceived the test sounds as musical or speech signals.