Sentence examples for repeating figure from inspiring English sources

The saxophonists, along with the drummer Paul Motion, set up a repeating figure that slowly permuted as one of the saxophonists inched forward a melody.

Michael Byron's string quartet "Awakening at the Inn of the Birds" (2001) built an attractive, rhythmically dense fabric from a robust, repeating figure.

Ms. Green, as the Princess, sang a shrill, slowly repeating figure, accompanied by wind writing in the spirit of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and dirgelike strings, piano and percussion.

Occasionally the complexity of the sound would suggest a voice, and the repeating figure a verbal phrase that this voice was trying to utter, without being able to pronounce the words clearly.

Mr. Muhly begins by toying with Minimalism, underpinning the score early on with a simple, rhythmically steady repeating figure that moves from the altos to the brass before disappearing in an increasingly complex web of appealing and often sensual choral and brass counterpoint.

By repeating Figure 2A, the in-vitro clonogenic assay, the key experiment will be reproduced.

It has an extensive discussion of tessellations, those repeating figures that fill two dimensions, as well as a series of hands-on activities.

José Pablo Moncayo's "Sinfonietta" was a brief and attractive exercise in local color, moved by repeating figures and folk-music modal scales.

Time Freezes" (2005) has roots in Minimalism, or at least in that style's use of repeating figures — in this case, quickly broken violin and cello chords and a sparkling treble keyboard figure — as well as clearly articulated rhythms.

The work began very much in Sibelius's territory, with the violas in repeating figures over a long, slow melodic line that began in the furthest bass and urged itself upward.

And Theo Verbey's "Man Ray — La Retour à la Raison" begins with repeating figures in the manner of 1970s Minimalism and morphs gracefully into a rich, atonal piece.