Sentence examples for statement of the theme from inspiring English sources

The first statement of the theme, twitchy and audacious, was followed by a pregnant pause.

Mr. Barenboim affirmed the point by stretching out the gorgeous concluding violin statement of the theme the singers just sang.

Her intrepid march through the fugue, with the final statement of the theme in thick bass octaves, is positively Horowitzian.

After the orchestra plays the hardy opening statement of the theme, there is an extra breath before the strings answer with the soft, lyrical second phrases.

His statement of the theme is jaunty, even jazzy, in a way that I've never heard it played elsewhere — including by Gould himself in his famed 1955 or 1981 recordings.

From the opening orchestra statement of the theme in the gentle first movement, and throughout the rest of this ethereal score, he shaped the music with grace on the surface yet tugging urgency just below.

But Mr. Clayton's solo, bridging statements of the theme, was all restraint and concision, the work of someone interested in the clearest articulation of an idea.

As the opening movement, a ruminative Andante, began, the winds, playing tentative statements of the theme, had a reedy, plaintive and exotic allure.

While the exposition modulates to a re-statement of the theme in F major, the recapitulation modulates to D major.

The second variation involves very little actual variation, and is closer to a literal re-statement of the theme that one would see in ternary form or a rondo.

Things picked up when the orchestra burst forth with the fortissimo statement of the main theme.