Sentence examples for strident sound from inspiring English sources

The strident sound results from the high number of overtones (harmonics) present.

Other people heard a strident sound, but I heard a chorus, I heard music, I heard brilliance and nobility and principles in the ideas of peace and justice and equality and fair play and all these things.

Its characteristically strident sound, produced in the original by shrill flutes and large drums, jangling triangles, cymbals, and Turkish crescents (jingling Johnnies), and its emphatic duple accent appealed to a growing taste for exoticism that led also to the employment of black drummers who marched brandishing their drumsticks in the manner of the later drum major.

(Chinen) GARY BARTZ QUARTET (Through Sunday) Mr. Bartz, an alto saxophonist with a powerfully strident sound, made his mark in the 1970's with Afro-centric fusion; here he pursues a full-throttle acoustic sound, with the help of versatile players like the pianist George Cables.

Alarmin has a more decisive and compelling quality since an alarm is a clarion call to action, a sharp, often strident sound that gets adrenalin flowing and the heart pumping.

It is only too bad he didn't make the film in eye-popping colors to match the strident sounds of Stravinsky's music.

BITHLO, Fla., March 29 (UPI) — Sheriffs deputies arrested the promoters of a dude ranch rock festival today, but after eight hours of Easter morning silence, the cow pasture rang again with the strident sounds of hard rock music.

Akira Nishimura's Quartet No 5 "Shesha", written specifically for Arditti's birthday, took its title from a gigantic snake with thousands of heads and exploited both the lyrical and the often strident sounds of contemporary violin technique.

The dolphins emit these strident sounds when in the presence of other individuals moving towards the same prey.

"Dolphins emit these strident sounds, for example, when in the presence of other individuals moving towards the same prey, forcing the least dominant mammal to quickly move away in order to avoid confrontation".

And apart from fleeting technical problems -- wayward intonation in the winds and a strident violin sound in the first movement of the Fourth -- the sound the orchestra produced was warm, rich-hued and invigorating.