Sentence examples for sustained tone from inspiring English sources

Here, though, he seems to have difficulty in striking a seductively sustained tone.

But Mr. Gets injects this archetype with deftly shaded idiosyncrasies that never disrupt the show's carefully sustained tone.

The electronics provided an understated beat or a few modest effects: a loop of his young son singing, an echo, a sustained tone.

But again and again, when the text returned to the ideas of mercy and faith, Noseda ensured his forces reverted to that almost obsessively velvety, sustained tone.

Starting on a single, sustained tone low in the instrument's range, the unaccompanied flute line gradually takes shape as an alluring, gently chromatic fantasy.

Mr. Breslik brought youthful charisma and a sweet, bright tenor voice to Ferrando, though now and then some high notes seemed tight or a sustained tone wavered.

For a few moments there were just hovering, sustained tones.

They have complained of a hard-edged sound and shakiness on sustained tones.

Eerie sustained tones on the organ and pungent, soft cluster chords provide a backdrop to repetitive rhythms and twittering riffs for the large battery of percussion instruments.

In most cases the cantus firmus was sounded in long, sustained tones while the other part or parts added decorative contrapuntal lines.

Most popular by far was the lute, which could produce the major elements of instrumental style except for long, sustained tones.