Sentence examples for percussive instruments from inspiring English sources

In particular, different instrumentations including percussive instruments were considered.

"And I've used recordings of the sounds of ravens as percussive instruments".

There followed the slightly later "Sequence" for soprano embedded in an ensemble of percussive instruments with violin and cello.

The Sextet is an exploration of the ways the duration of notes played on percussive instruments can be both stretched and curtailed.

When "Super Natural" begins, percussive instruments are set out over the stage, with the audience placed around it, on a slight diagonal, so that we are looking toward a far corner.

As the show cycled through dance-theater vignettes, we got nostalgic musical anthems (Tori Amos featured prominently); fun with microphones, heavy breathing and body parts as percussive instruments; fake laughing; full frontal nudity and skits with quirky animal props.

Your body is a percussive instrument, and body percussion is about hitting and slapping yourself in a rhythmic way.

One perennial challenge pianists face is making a percussive instrument sing, as Ms. Uchida does seamlessly.

My teacher told me the piano is not a percussive instrument: you play it the same way you would sing.

Pianists often say that what they are trying to do with their essentially percussive instrument is to imitate the human voice.

The richly scored five-movement piece ranges from the melancholy "Plaint" to the exuberant "Estampie," which uses the cello as a percussive instrument.