Sentence examples for repeated note from inspiring English sources

Where Monk would hammer a repeated note to signal the wrapping up of a phrase, Ms. Min played a rolling staccato with all four picking fingers.

With Hubley on piano – sounding out one repeated note for every distinct "movement" of the piece – the guitarists added quietly buzzing microtones.

There are passages in each where Feldman seems to be testing the listener's patience, seeing how long we can endure a repeated note or a dissonant minor second.

Julia Wolfe's "Early That Summer" for string quartet offered repetition in its attack mode: fierce and rapid figures exploiting the emotional pull of the repeated note.

Frederic Rzewski's "Piano Piece No. 4" (1977) begins with a Minimalist gesture: a repeated note that morphs into a relentlessly pounding chord before abandoning the repetition and expanding toward both ends of the keyboard.

He moved in an instant from plush to pearly, giving subtly different colors to the iterations of a repeated note in the "Peter Grimes" Fantasy, Ronald Stevenson's eerie arrangement of themes from Benjamin Britten's opera.

And how about this knotty passage of repeated notes?

The PX-130 even handles quickly repeated notes pretty well.

Eggers received repeated notes from concerned producers about the screenplay.

Dynamics are generally subdued, and the singer keeps stretching syllables over repeated notes, to quavery effect.

Continuum features rapidly repeated notes in the upper register until they accelerate into invisibility.