Sentence examples for rhythmic gesture from inspiring English sources

Ms. Allanbrook, known to friends as Wendy, was most famous for her book "Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart" (University of Chicago, 1983), based on the dissertation for her doctorate from Stanford, which she received in 1974.

His idiom is a clear if reasonably sophisticated tonality, and he lays out his ideas in big, solid blocks: a rhythmic gesture setting the tone for a whole scene; a melody planted so that it can be brought back later.

There is a video of Houston performing a medley of her hits in which nearly every rhythmic gesture has a meaning: a subtle nod of the head signals the start of the song; a purposeful strut upstage and a drop of the arms alerts the band to proceed to the next number; yet another drop of the arms tells the band how long to hold a note; a slow undulation of her left hand tells it to quiet down.

There's no trademark melodic turn or show-stopping rhythmic gesture; instead, the track conveys an intimate sense of ongoing negotiation.

She identifies two primary body movements that substitute for dancing: headbanging and an arm thrust that is both a sign of appreciation and a rhythmic gesture.

Precise rhythmic gestures helped coordinate soloist and ensemble.

But audiences will notice, and may resist, many familiar Weill melodic and rhythmic gestures deployed in surprising ways.

And the group closed with Mr. Reich's "Six Pianos" (1973), a classic phase piece from which little rhythmic gestures rise out of the bustling, changeable texture.

Pantomimus, plural pantomimi, nonspeaking dancer in the Roman theatre who performed dramatic scenes, acting all the characters in a story in succession using only masks, body movement, and rhythmic gestures.

The folk-contemporary dancing concentrated above the waist in rhythmic gestures of woe and sex, as bent legs mainly shuttled the body back and forth as if on tracks.

The "special sort of listening" requires, as he explains, a concentration on the relationship of pitches, rather than on the rhetorical rhythmic gestures which have been a focus of attention in the past.