Sentence examples for shape music from inspiring English sources

That lineup hints at just how Howl has permeated popular culture and, unlike almost any other piece of literature, helped shape music as it is today.

It features a Bravo Gustavo computer game akin to Guitar Hero and an application that allows the movement of an iPhone to shape music coming out of it.

They were all "young iconoclasts on the edge of the mainstream," whose "DIY moves," Mr. Hermes writes, "would grow into movements that continue to shape music around the world".

Its capabilities shape music from Honolulu to Reykjavik, Chicago to New Delhi, London to Lagos and points beyond; the Boston exhibition includes a Martin Backpacker mini-guitar that went into space in 1994 aboard the Columbia shuttle.

The devices allow players to experiment with musical qualities such as timbre, density, and structure in a visceral way, but according to Machover, they also teach kids something about conducting-how to shape music, give it form, and keep it moving.

Mr. Gladwell does not explain why other groups, who practiced as much as the Beatles, never became one of the seminal rock groups of all time, or why groups like the Rolling Stones or the Beach Boys, who didn't play as many Hamburg shows as the Beatles, also went on to shape music history.

"They're composing, shaping music, improvising".

"Technology has always shaped music," he says, "be it 78s, 45s, LPs or CDs, it changes the shape of the music.

And despite its seeming formlessness, the CD has shaped music too, although it was harder to appreciate that before MP3's came along.

He can't be underestimated as a band leader: early on he was shaping music on the bandstand, shifting tempos and cueing the shrewdest arrangements.

He can't be underestimated as a bandleader: early on he was shaping music on the bandstand, shifting tempos and cuing the shrewdest arrangements.