Sentence examples for string figure from inspiring English sources

The teacher used a string figure exercise to help solve a math problem.

The choral announcement of flies and lice is adorned with a string figure that buzzes between the sung lines.

Much of the piece is elegiac: a melancholy string figure, set against the pitched percussion ostinato, is akin in spirit to Arvo Pärt's "Fratres".

Another was a repeating two-note string figure that occurs at several points in the work, and that, in context, seemed to point toward Mr. Adams's "Shaker Loops," the 1978 work that put him on the map.

Sounds moved through the orchestra with astonishing agility; an anguished low string figure in the second act was capped, with perfect timing, by a coppery shimmer in the brasses.

But it traces the arc of the story, starting with an impenetrably cacophonous introduction that captures Set's anger and violence, and ending with a serene, rising string figure that suggests Osiris's transformation by Isis.

(Among other things, he also accumulated string figures and Ukrainian Easter eggs).

Elsewhere they strive for similarity but never quite meet, as when a staccato piano line weaves through pizzicato string figures.

In the opening "Trabajadores Agricolas," string figures that should have been as sharp as a threshing blade sounded wooly.

Other fingerprints are here as well -- blustery brass and percussion writing, wrenching string figures -- and the Philharmonic executed them brilliantly.

Tremolando string figures create eerily tense atmospheres or gently hazy ones, depending on the dynamics and balances.