How did you figure out how to render that idea musically?
Mr. Putin, though not previously known to be musically gifted, sang a sweetly rendered version of "Blueberry Hill" in English, accompanied by a live jazz band.
Most of his compositions are unpeopled landscapes depicting houses and building fragments in brilliantly stylized settings in which trees, clouds, smokestacks, telephone poles, water and snow are rendered as rhythmic and dramatic shapes that play off one another almost musically.
Musically, they render it pretty unrecognizable until Goulding's Grimes-esque cries come in.
Musically, the set was like a declaration of Spalding's new-jazz philosophy: along with her own songs, she played the chestnut "Body and Soul," but rendered it nearly unrecognizable by stretching the melody over a Latin 5/4 rhythm.
Ethan Brown of New York praised Nas' lyricism and found its musically significant, stating: In a mixed review, Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Village Voice criticized Nas for abandoning his role as "rap's foremost observer" for "the ballad of the learned thug" and stated, "Nas has rendered himself mediocre.
You could, if things go really wrong, throw your plastic cup full of sugared-ethanol in the air through pure excitement, not realising that the cup's trajectory will in fact mean that you've accidentally cut the power supply for Craig David's microphone, inadvertently rendering the goateed garage legend musically impotent!
They diverged from the Florentine style by increasing the contrast between the arias and the recitatives, allowing the arias to interrupt dramatic continuity, and rendering the recitatives more speechlike and less interesting musically.
Mr. Gelb has said that "Two Boys" would undergo significant revisions before its debut at the Met, changes intended to render the work more dramatically effective and "create more dynamic range musically".
