No wonder: almost all the performances begin on one note (angry, sad, in denial), and, aside from fluctuations in intensity, never move on.
He'd start with a brusque four-note tune; stretch it out over an asymmetrical but catchy rhythm; stop on one note in a kind of funky stutter; punctuate the mass with a few oddly voiced but just-so chords; and suddenly the gates of Stravinskyland would swing open.
His voice remains on one note – the drone of your neighbour's mower".
2) By having to sit on one note, you will learn how to control your airflow.
Described by the composer in a letter to Glikman as "ideologically flawed and of no use to anybody," it consists largely of variations on four notes — D, D-sharp, C, and B. In German, these notes have different lettering — D, S, C, H — which form the initials of the German spelling of Shostakovich's name (Dmitri Schostakowitch).
And then you've got quite a lot of music on one note.
Yet the collection seemed to focus on one note: the 1960s era of big hair.
And don't forget that this is an Administration in which the White House is really pretty much on one note.
At one point, while moving around the space, she emits a series of staccati on one note — "Ha, ha, ha" and then "He, he, he".
There is approximately $3.5 billion in debt due over that period, according to Geoff Oltmans, a high-yield bond analyst at Lehman Brothers, although much of the trading centers on three note issues with just $850 million outstanding, traders said.
"The viola part is often more interesting in the modern pieces," she told me, "but sometimes I'm happier droning on one note in a Haydn quartet, because I know exactly where that note belongs, logically and emotionally".
