Sentence examples for sound mass from inspiring English sources

But the music was properly representative, with the right near-metal sound mass and the right motion.

The sound mass technique in such works as Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931) and Iannis Xenakis's Metastaseis (1955) is an elaboration of the tone cluster.

In one of the most famous pieces associated with the sound mass aesthetic, Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1959), for fifty-two strinstrumentsenthe the quarter-tone clusters "see[m] to have abstracted and intensified the features that define shrieks of terror and keening cries of sorrow".

The cut-glass precision of Scarlatti's binary forms and the springy leanness of his keyboard writing contrast beautifully with the irregular, multilayered sound masses of Cage's pieces.

You heard suspense-movie stabs, a high and stringent violin feature (played by Debbie Buck), sets of great pastoral chords with strings advancing to the front of the sound-mass and bending them toward slight dissonance.

"Big Inner" connects a little bit with the slow, cathartic soft-rock practiced lately by Bon Iver and Gayngs, but it seems to set the stakes higher, both in terms of sound-mass and meditativeness; hence the title, perhaps.

All songs were made up of three or four different parts, orbiting around a difficult-to-define center, and Carley Coma's copious shouted lyrics were impossible to make out, mostly there to be part of the sound-mass.

His searing, sometimes quirky and even playful music later reached a mass audience through the films of Stanley Kubrick, most famously with the sound-masses of 2001: A Space Odyssey but also in Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut.

The "seven trumpets" and other signs of doom aren't roaring sound-masses, as in Berlioz's Requiem or Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony, but fiercely elegant dances, whose rhythms swing along in intricate patterns without ever obeying a regular beat.

A survivor of the Holocaust and the post-war disaster of communism, he was a man with a perennially restless mind, who explored electronic music, sound-mass and micro-polyphony, the music of sub-Saharan Africa, minimalism.

The sound of mass inhaling and exhaling hisses like a human sea.