It is like a celebratory, clattering ritual, with fragments of tunes and pounding rhythms.
"We are going to pound and pound and pound".
By combining the deep sentiment of centuries-old folk tunes with pounding dance beats and Madonna-like staging, she has been embraced by the Armenian diaspora as its first genuine pop star.
True, many composers of musicals can neither read nor write music and merely hum their tunes or pound them out on the piano, forcing orchestrators to supply everything from chords to rhythms, but some of us spend long hours working out harmonies and contrapuntal lines, and Rodgers was one of them, as his distinctive harmonic styles — one for Hart, one for Hammerstein — prove.
The producer re-fashions the tune with pounding soca drums, laying down a rhythmically-reinvigorated foundation for the Jamaican MC to take control with a set of characteristically magisterial bars.
A new version of "All Over the World", from their Yes album, restores to Tchaikovsky's familiar melody a touch of the dignity jettisoned by "Nut Rocker", while elsewhere a medley of "Viva La Vida" and "Domino Dancing" lashes Coldplay's tune to a pounding PSB drum part, and two remodelled electropop versions of Madness' "My Girl" drape moody string pads around twitchy synth lines.
Perhaps there's something innate about wanting to strike up a tune while you pound the ground.
As well as arresting images, they are particularly notable for a strongly developed sense of aural momentum – a tendency to employ pounding tunes and driving sound effects to pull the viewer through the often bizarre-seeming action on screen.
This paper proposes a new method to mitigate vortex-induced vibrations (VIVs) of a bridge deck using a single-side pounding tuned mass damper (SS-PTMD).
The song, influenced by hip-hop and rock, has been described as an "upbeat tune", is composed of pounding drums, and features referee whistles and hand claps.
