Sentence examples for the first prelude from inspiring English sources

If you take the first Prelude and play it very slowly, you'll hear startling resemblences in its construction to Bach.

Mr. Daugherty's fervid eclecticism ultimately leads him back to the source, Bach's masterpiece of stunning simplicity, the first prelude from "The Well-Tempered Clavier".

Mr. Schickele, for example, played the first prelude from Bach's "Well-Tempered Clavier" at the piano as members of the orchestra added melodies that happened to fit the work's arpeggiated chords, including themes from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Borodin's "Prince Igor, Strausss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" and a Joplin rag.

Right from the opening chords of the first prelude, "Danseuses de Delphes," Mr. Pollini shows a keen appreciation of the risk Debussy was taking when, as he told his conservatory professor, he decided the only harmonic rule he would follow would be that of his pleasure.

The program, entirely French in theme and temperament if not in fact, provided a useful context for Messiaen: the bells in the Sixth Prelude, "Cloches d'Angoisses et Larmes d'Adieu" ("Bells of Anguish and Tears of Farewell"), pealed with the same sonorous solemnity as that heard later in Ravel's "Vall?des Cloches" ("Valley of the Bells").

Another example is the introduction to "So What", attributed to Gil Evans, which is closely based on the opening measures of French composer Claude Debussy's Voiles (1910), the second prelude from his first collection of preludes.

The sixth prelude, Des pas sur la neige (Footprints in the Snow), evokes a feeling of sadness and isolation, while Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest (What the West wind saw)—the seventh exudes a violent and tumultuous nature.

Other video motifs introduced during the first act prelude included a lunar eclipse-like black orb that floated among barren trees in a dark wood.

He outlined a seven-part series of films called "Why We Fight," and, in the first film, "Prelude to War," he laid eager hands on Axis propaganda, including "Triumph of the Will".

But orchestral strings do not respond as well as the human voice does to large-scale amplification, and however appropriate it was to be hearing the first movement, "Prelude to Night," as the stars were starting to peep out, the fine textures collapsed almost into homogeneity.

One caption reads, "My first Prelude that I got into a bad accident with".