Sentence examples for sustained harmony from inspiring English sources

The orchestra at first heaves with thick, subdued chords but soon settles into a shimmering, pungent sustained harmony.

Similarly, in the opening pages of "Ondine," the first movement of the Ravel, the right-hand piano figuration sounded not like a shimmering sustained harmony, as it typically does, but like a rippling rhythmic motive, eerily dry and tingling.

This mercurial duo, a study in contrasts with pensive passages of sustained harmony, pugnacious outbursts, obsessive repetitions and eerie colorings, sounds as if it were scored for an orchestra of violas, which was the composer's intention.

Even so, there does appear to be bipartisan hope that Mr. Obama might be an unusual figure, whose skill at bringing parties together really can create a sustained harmony.

A seemingly dreamy though still tense section segues into a wondrous movement of chiming, sustained harmonies.

Chords are stacked with intervals that produce plaintively consoling sustained harmonies.

Its nickname refers to the opening violin melody, which soars above the sustained harmonies of the other strings.

The chorus (directed by Joseph Cullen) filled the resounding sustained harmonies with full-bodied but never forced sound.

The vocal writing is often complex and intriguing, with astringently dissonant sustained harmonies and busy contrapuntal writing.

During the extended final episode, the music enters a mystical realm with soft, eerily sustained harmonies over a steady low drone.

This technique was humorously deployed in "Fake Chinese (slightly drunk)," a restless, cyclic rush of cluster chords, and eerily used in "Bell Tower," an exercise in thick, sustained harmonies.