Sentence examples for musical strata from inspiring English sources
But this passage – and the rest of the mysterious progress of the rest of the scherzo - symbolises the distinctive soundworld of this symphony, especially its employment of so many simultaneous musical strata.
Although NRMAL, on the grounds of the Alianza Francesa school, appears to be slightly slicker than MtyMx, they both pull from similar musical strata, and are inexpensive: NRMAL is $23 for one day, MtyMx is $30 for three.
And talking of musical strata, of co-existing lines of musical material, above all material with different rhythmic profiles, listen to this passage from the first movement, the climax of the music's singing second theme.
"Women of the world, take over," the whimsical Scots bard Ivor Cutler once urged, his advice taken last Friday at a concert featuring women performers from different strata of the musical spectrum.
Is there any music more complex than, say, the six-part Ricercar, with its six independent but symbiotically related strata of ever-changing musical information, from Bach's Musical Offering?
No composer of musicals has ever sustained as many strata of emotions in a single number (or a single phrase) as Mr. Sondheim does.
"Earth Dances," of the mid-80's, has a more geological sound, weighty with low brass and percussion, as musical layers move over one another with the ruthless determination of rock strata while woodwinds fuse in lament.
Making ingenious use of a vast revolving turntable at center stage (the inspired set is by John Napier), artfully arranged crowds and place-defining lighting (by David Hersey), the musical manages to keep in clear focus a broad cast of characters from different social strata whose fortunes and even identities change over the course of several decades.
In a series of neuropsychological experiments, we investigated associative knowledge of musical compositions (musical objects), musical emotions, musical instruments (musical sources) and music notation (musical symbols).
It's happening here, in every strata".
