Sentence examples for piercing tone from inspiring English sources

After four minutes, there was a piercing tone from the piccolo, and then a moment's silence.

The players made the clashing dissonances ever more shocking by executing them with such focused and piercing tone.

One man's gold is another man's strident, piercing tone that carries all the way into the dry sauna.

In true Addams family fashion, Wednesday effortlessly scares the men with her piercing tone and sardonic comebacks.

"We could have made it a little bit of a looser, less piercing tone, but we really just went for it," Perry said.

Henderson describes it as "an uncanny piercing tone that takes off, Eastern-sounding beyond the range of the guitar" and, according to Shadwick, "gives the impression that the guitar notes are flying off into the ether".

One passage toward the end of the Adagio of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony was emblematic: violins and cellos glided variously downward and upward in stepwise motion while flutes and a clarinet sustained shining but never piercing tones.

All are based on spoken languages: Kuşköy's version, for example, adapts standard Turkish syllables into piercing tones that can be heard from more than half a mile away.

In Mr. Haas's score, the violin and high woodwinds play piercing tones that quickly evolve into microtonal clusters, against which a fragmentary, melancholy viola line creates a subdued narrative.

Yet the narrow, quick vibrato in his tone can have a somewhat piercing quality for those who want more warmth in an Italian tenor.

Although they hailed from different villages across the land, their melodies were always the same: The most lugubrious tunes in the most piercing tones, which made you think of death.