They played a long, slow introductory blues, giving solo time to fluegelhorn, trumpet, baritone sax, two electric guitars and organ.
Like faithful retainers under her command, her trumpeter and clarinetist stepped forward to play slow introductory passages or toss phrases back at her.
For Mahler, like Linnaeus, the natural world was a constant source of inspiration; the composer described the slow introductory movement as nature awakening after a winter's sleep.
She shared one slow, wordless, introductory passage with Abdelaziz Aissaoui on qanun and Mr. Chekara on violin, bringing out flamenco's Arabic inflections up and down the modal scale; they then moved into the Arabic song "Mawal," followed by a flamenco with a clearly related rhythm.
In the faster sections after the slow, stately opening alap (the introductory, unmetered part of a raga), he tended to strike notes late, creating friction against the pulse maintained by the tablaist Swapan Chaudhuri.
The high attrition rate of students from the biology major has been attributed in large part to students' failure to connect intellectually with the subject, and the traditional mode of teaching introductory courses itself can slow students' development of higher-order thinking skills (e.g., analysis, synthesis, evaluation; Bloom et al., 1956).
Scientists observed that adult male zebra finches in the presence of male chicks worked to make their songs clearer by spacing out musical phrases and repeating introductory notes actions analogous to the slow, exaggerated speech many adults use with young children.
"Arguably in any introductory programme … there might have to be a slowing of the pace in order to be sure that everyone is comfortable and committed to the placement," she said in the report.
The survey included a brief introductory letter that described the lack of current therapies capable of preventing or slowing AD and the great interest in developing such therapies.
After an introductory section, one hears the fire, quite light and delicate in its energy, the calm water (a slow procession of chords) and the mountain winds.
Ever more exotic products were dreamt up, including "teaser" loans with an introductory period of interest rates as low as 1%.When the housing market began to slow, lenders pepped up the pace of sales by dramatically loosening credit standards, lending more against each property and cutting the need for documentation.
