Sentence examples for tone cluster from inspiring English sources

But there were other, more dissonant motifs, like the clogged tone of a Kia horn, a truck's blast, and my favorite discordant moment: the sickly tone cluster of an apparently ailing Camry horn, with its pitches drooping as the driver sustained it.

Ornstein was the first important composer to make extensive use of the tone cluster.

A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale.

One 1969 textbook defines the tone cluster as "an extra-harmonic clump of notes".

Variants of the tone cluster include chords comprising adjacent tones separated diatonically, pentatonically, or microtonally.

For instance, three adjacent piano keys (such as C, C, and D) struck simultaneously produce a tone cluster.

All the hallmarks of his style were there: ominously rumbling bass lines, breathtakingly rapid runs, percussive tone clusters.

His signature tone clusters and micropolyphony began to crop up in Swedish choral music of the 1970's.

He has tried serialism, tone clusters and conventional chords (unconventionally arranged).

His early works made use of tone clusters, polyrhythms and other new techniques before they were widely known.

Breakneck scales, octave-hurdling arpeggios, expansive tremolos and splintering tone clusters poured from his piano, as Mr. Wood and Mr. Martin pushed for more.