Sentence examples for notes against from inspiring English sources

Chords reminiscent of German chorale (hymn melody harmonizations) and tremolo or pizzicato (plucked) accompaniments occur along with organlike counterpoint and pedal points (sustained notes against changing harmonies).

It began with a pecking piano ostinato, steady notes against syncopated ones, and a concise pop melody before it started to leap.

Some 90% of the power plants built in 2006 run on coal, the IEA notes, against 70% of those built in 2000.

Rhythmic conflicts, or cross-rhythms, may occur within a single metre (e.g., two eighth notes against triplet eighths) or may be reinforced by simultaneous combinations of conflicting metres.

So I called every couple of months to update it on probate and the sale of the bungalow, and it was happy to make notes against the account.

When Taylor compared the notes against the San Jacinto Monument document, he noticed in the mass of mistakes a pattern so subtle that it had eluded his notice.

The Winchester Troper includes 3 Introits, 53 Alleluias, 19 Tracts, and 7 Sequences in undecipherable note-against-note organum.

Until the end of the 11th century organum was written entirely in note-against-note style, described, in 1336, as punctus contra punctum (point against point i.e., note against note), hence the name counterpoint.

It differed from a motet in that its basic part was not plainsong and that all parts sang the same Latin text in note-against-note style.

The 1565 book, again a complete cycle, is written in the simplest note-against-note style, with the melody in the tenor voice.

You can also amend a note against anything potentially damaging.