Sentence examples for sustained string from inspiring English sources

As the orchestra played the slow, hushed, sustained string chords of the opera's wistful prelude, this restless child babbled to her mother.

Percussion was also an integral part of Laszlo Tihanyi's "Twenty Night Meditations" (2004), in which jagged fragments of sound are woven over sustained string tones to create an anxious, meditative nocturnal tapestry.

The cast, in colorful costumes evoking medieval times, gave the story's background during an opening processional, first sung as unaccompanied chant, but soon joined by strummed lutes and gentle drum riffs atop sustained string pedal tones.

The sublimely contemplative "Garden of Love's Sleep," with its lusciously consonant sustained string chords, he said, evokes an "Eden from which we will never be expelled," adding that as the father of 5-month-old twins, he appreciated more than ever this ultimate music of repose.

The sextet was also originally commissioned as a dance score, and it shares a family likeness to the new variations, with bowed vibraphone pitches taking on the same function in the harmonic scheme that sustained string notes fulfil in the new piece.

As well as issues surrounding my personal life, I have also been subjected to a vicious and sustained string of abuse across various social media channels, a small fraction of which you have witnessed.

In this quizzical work, a searching solo trumpet and a harmonically astringent choir of winds pose unnerving musical questions over a bedrock of soft, sustained strings playing unperturbed diatonic chords.

The final movement, "The Cause of Labor Is the Hope of the World," built to a stately, celebratory march behind a union rally at Durham Cathedral, only to drift away again in quietly sustained strings.

"In a Distant Place" by Caleb Burhans, who also conducted the Wordless Music Orchestra through the concert, moved from plinking Steve Reich Minimalism, with hints of gamelan music from soprano recorder and vibraphone, to richly melancholic sustained strings.

With hovering, sustained strings and curlicued lines for flute or oud, the music links Mr. N'Dour to North African and Middle Eastern singers like Om Kalsoum; it also lets him show his most gentle voice.

"If the World" opens with acoustic guitar lines suggesting a Middle Eastern oud but segues into wah-wah rhythm guitar and sustained strings fit for a blaxploitation soundtrack, while Mr. Rose unleashes something like a soul falsetto.