Sentence examples for short theme from inspiring English sources
I'm not talking about big climactic blasts or soaring melodies, but about some fleeting passage, an unexpected twist in a melodic line, a series of pungent chords, a short theme that reappears briefly in a new musical guise.
In short, theme restaurants are the perfect places to bring people you don't want to talk to.
The pilot episode of the series, Woodentop, featured a short theme composed by Mike Westergaard.
Each mystery begins with a short theme and reflection on the dedicated topic and is followed by 10 'Our Fathers' and 1 'Glory be to the Father using the prayer beads.
(He also said that he worked with short themes because he had trouble thinking of long ones).
It will consist of a short themed piece above the line, perhaps outlining the coming week, and then daily updated news stories intended as a catalyst for discussion.
Both as a soloist and a bandleader, he can pull off the dark emotions in his music: His trumpet tone is steady and stark, crumbled around the edges, and he makes his strong, short themes anchor the arrangements.
Still, it is hard to imagine that Beethoven's way of using motifs did not influence Wagner's technique of leitmotifs: short themes loosely associated with characters or dramatic situations.
Toward the end of his Berlin years, Schoenberg gave a lecture entitled "Brahms the Progressive," in which he drew attention to the older composer's habit of endlessly working over short themes — what he elsewhere called the technique of "developing variation".
And yet another bassist, Mario Pavone, played a power-trio set with the trumpeter Dave Ballou and the drummer Tyshawn Sorey: open-ended jams on short themes, driven by Mr. Pavone's driving, vamping notes and chords and Mr. Sorey's constantly changing strategies around the drum kit.
You will wait in vain for long (or, for that matter, short) themes in either Mr. Cassidy's String Quartet (2002) or Mr. Furrer's String Quartet No. 3 (2004); and in Mr. Furrer's work especially, pregnant silences are nearly as plentiful as notes.
