Well-suited to the technical capabilities of the lute, they mixed passages in chordal style, running scale passages, and alternation of high and low phrases that suggested the many-voiced texture of polyphonic music.
In the 17th century these two styles are found, sometimes even juxtaposed, in the Ordinary of the mass settings, along with the use of the concertato principle: one or more solo voices or instruments, in running scale passages, that contrast with the whole choral and instrumental ensemble.
I would run whole passages of text — Baudelaire, Rilke, Ponge, whomever I'd been reading, even my own small works in progress — through my head, forward, backward, taking apart each image, amplifying each metre and sub-rhythm in the loaded silence.
You're just as likely to run into passages on abstract concepts—"desire," "despair"—as you are very concrete sex scenes.
With his customary verve, he had his dancers run through passages from "Six Pack," stopping them occasionally to tweak the movement, timing, and floor spacing.
The polish consists largely of a speaker running over key passages onstage while Anderson or Cohen sits in the front row and laughs uproariously at the jokes.
One arcade opens to a dining terrace above prodigious lawns with descending levels of flower beds and water running in tiled passages like a garden in Kashmir -- the Islamic design filtered via Spain, I realized.
It is a bent-axis gate running through vaulted passages before reaching the courtyard.
"The clapper, the napper, the 'scuse-me squeeze past-er," runs one passage.
