Sentence examples for musical word from inspiring English sources

Because a large part of Mr. Hendricks, one of the originators of vocalese — the application of fanciful, pirouetting lyrics to jazz instrumental solos — is a precocious, inexhaustibly voluble boy carried away by musical word games, the smaller number feels about right.

Early critics like Edmund Wilson couldn't finish Stein's complex web of repetition, but she has been credited with foreshadowing postmodernism and making key stylistic breakthroughs, including using the continuous present and a nearly musical word choice.

Behavioral data (RTs and arcsin-transformed Error Rates) were analyzed using a three-way ANOVA with within-subject factors: Attentional Task (Linguistic vs. Musical), Word (same vs. different), and Melody (same vs. different).

For the midline electrodes, an ANOVA with factors Attentional Task (Linguistic vs. Musical), Word (same vs. different), Melody (same vs. different) and Region (fronto-central vs. parieto-occipital) was computed on the mean amplitudes of the ERPs in each latency band.

But in the musical, words hold the upper edge.

What makes Dylan worthy of such an honour is that, like all great literature, lovely musical words resonate with an honesty and intelligence that give us a unique insight into the human condition.

With his musical words, Thomas brings us back to the essence of poetry.

Well, until the appearance of a curvaceous singer who joins the show at the last minute and is, in the tradition of old movie musicals, word perfect.

Instead, London Road is a "verbatim" musical, matching – word for word, respecting every pause, every stutter, every colloquialism – the cadence of throwaway comments and small observations to the camp melodies of a West End jolly.

Alongside these will be more personal items such as handwritten set lists, musical scores, word collages and diary entries.

For me, a music drama is a musical when words have slightly the upper hand in the score, as Loesser's lyrics do here.