Altman is known for his naturalist approach: freewheeling scenes, overlapping lines, sometimes semi-audible dialogue.
This version began with two minutes or so of vaguely medieval-sounding choral writing, a misty mass of overlapping lines.
Kelela uses overlapping lines, singing, "Your body is telling me yes," and then echoing the phrase; both lines eventually converge, to sing, "You want it".
Both men stuff their dramas with zingers, overlapping lines and dialogue that if it came any faster would cause the actors to hyperventilate.
The singing is powerful, of course, and full of feeling, but also precise, tender – with delicate harmonies, sweetly overlapping lines.
The players are divided into combative duos, and the music unfolds in dizzying thickets of overlapping lines and jittery rhythmic explosions.
When the orchestra broke into passages of overlapping lines, it was hard to hear what was going on in the muddle of sound.
Many have found the piece to be beautifully atmospheric, and there is certainly an alluring delicacy to the gently overlapping lines of the vocal quartet, accompanied by occasional touches of percussion (performed by the singers themselves).
But where de Monte framed the request in the fluid, overlapping lines and sublimely consonant harmonies of the late Renaissance, Ligeti used close dissonances to create hauntingly eerie, slowly evolving clusters.
One is intellectual: the choreographer makes the structure of the dance reflect that of the score, so that, for example, canon in the music gives rise to canon in the dance — overlapping lines.
Just to clarify, you may cross your own path, and you need to make obtuse angles only at the original 10 points: New vertices created by overlapping lines don't count.
