Sentence examples for piercing notes from inspiring English sources
The intense soprano Tony Arnold sang fragments of popular song lyrics in a stratospheric register in the Talea Ensemble's performance of Bernhard Lang's "DW 16: Songbook 1," her piercing notes matched by bursts of Geoff Landman's saxophone.
The flute line, played deftly by Ulla Suokko, is all over the place, with huge leaps from dark-hued low tones to piercing notes at the top of the instrument's range, and with similarly abrupt shifts in dynamics.
She held one piercing note on the keyboard, and then looped it into a drone.
We were doing a sound-check and I hit a particularly piercing note and it cracked some glass.
A piercing note of anxiety about modern relationships seems to be trying to break through, and it's not easy to balance this elegantly with comedy.
As I looked up into slender branches of the tree's crown, a piercing note, more squeak than whistle, came from the bank right by my feet.
On an even more piercing note, I found myself smitten by a fella whom I saw as a prospect.
Though the film is mostly celebratory, a subplot concerning one neglected boy named Julien (Philippe Goldmann) adds a piercing note of sadness and poignancy.
You'll end up with layers of flavour that come in waves rather than a single piercing note.
Ms. Wincenc, a noted soloist and teacher and a longtime advocate of new music, played Varèse's "Density 21.5" (1936, revised in 1946) with a soulful, keening tone, and reserves of power for the piercing high notes near the end.
