Sentence examples for pitched speech from inspiring English sources

At times the vocal writing is merely pitched speech.

Pierrot is a series of songs that repudiate the 19th-century lied: the voice does not sing but produces a kind of pitched speech (Sprechstimme).

Set to Schonberg's sprechgesang (pitched speech) score, it featured Tetley himself as the white-faced Pierrot of the title, swinging on a stark scaffolding set and interacting with other commedia dell'arte characters.

LONDON — If not for a late surge and a perfectly pitched speech in Singapore seven years ago, Sebastian Coe would never have been sitting where he was on Tuesday night, perched in a new Olympic Stadium, next to one of his role models, Roger Bannister, with the moveable feast of a 1,500-meter 1,500-meterding below.

The vocal requirements of avant-garde music extended beyond those of traditional operatic singing to include wider flexibility of timbre, techniques such as Sprechstimme (musically pitched speech), and improvisational fantasy drawing on sounds formerly excluded from the trained singer's vocal resources.

Miliband pitched his speech to the left on a platform of policies that were prosaically centrist; Cameron delivered a centrist speech after unveiling a set of policies that are alarmingly rightwing.

With a graciousness that impressed critics and brought supporters to tears, Michelle Obama on Monday night gave a perfectly pitched convention speech that was a ringing endorsement of Hillary Clinton, a backhanded slap at Donald Trump, and a powerful reminder of the historic nature of her husband's presidency.

Figure 4 Speech signal segment, detected pitch, speech segment with pitch and harmonic removed, and time domain signal spectrogram.

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The researchers then analyzed the two samples for differences in traits such as pitch, speech rate, and scratchiness, or sound quality.

But he generally pitched his speeches on notes of inspiration and hope.