The chorus (directed by Joseph Cullen) filled the resounding sustained harmonies with full-bodied but never forced sound.
The astonishing episode of the Credo in which Beethoven sets the words "et incarnatus est," affirming that Jesus was truly made man, worked its magic, as the trilling high flutes evoked celestial birds while the soloists and chorus prolonged the ethereal sustained harmonies with plangent, shimmering sound.
Create sustained harmony of the body and mind.
"Concord," the first movement, begins with misty and shimmering sustained harmonies packed with pitches, over which a solo trumpet melody meanders restlessly, a clear reference to Ives's "Unanswered Question".
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.
During the extended final episode, the music enters a mystical realm with soft, eerily sustained harmonies over a steady low drone.
The orchestra at first heaves with thick, subdued chords but soon settles into a shimmering, pungent sustained harmony.
The present study also found that within family, participants try to maintain balance in their families in order to sustain harmony.
Its nickname refers to the opening violin melody, which soars above the sustained harmonies of the other strings.
The work begins with the voices alone, repeatedly singing the word "Wondrous" to music of eerily shimmering and astringently beautiful sustained harmonies run through with fidgety riffs and skittish outbursts.
On her solo albums, Bjork has frequently abandoned a straightforward beat, replacing it with sustained harmonies or electronic stutters and flickers (though thumping remixes have kept her songs in clubs).
