A skittering drum kicks in, adding an urgent pulse.
Now and then they do a few other animal movements, some based on Nijinsky's "Faun" choreography, but mainly they jog, and the urgent pulse they maintain against the slow legato lushness of Debussy's famous prelude creates a deliberately peculiar emphasis.
Robert Mirabal, in one corner of the pool, beats a drum in a loud, urgent pulse: the implication of a rapid heartbeat maintains a powerful sense of alarm throughout what follows.
There's a song in his heart if not in his diaphragm, but, strangely, a lot of his tippity tappiting has the urgent pulse of an S O S. Much like Mr. Miller's excellent "Babe: Pig in the City" and his dystopian "Mad Max" trilogy, "Happy Feet" presents a vision of the world seen through a glass darkly.
Set to urgent, pulse-racing drums and a streetwalking Jesus & Mary Chain chug, Radio Tokyo's surging keyboards are manic, celebratory carnival music, while On Leaving imagines Can covering 96 Tears – an inspired pairing, as it turns out.
"SexyBack" is an "urgent, pulsing track, a cocktail of soaring, distorted vocals and heavy, electronic chords threaded together with rap", according to Camilla Long from The Observer.
Despite the intense, urgent feelings that pulse through its pages, this novel of emotional realism is based on an emotional fantasy — as becomes obvious when Morris is forced to conclude it with an unconvincing denouement.
A wide-interval melody, articulated in long tones by the alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón, came on like a shroud, as Mr. Kneeland and Mr. Perlson laid down an urgent and lurching pulse.
In some ways "Billy Budd" is opera in the grand manner, with a pulsing, urgent score, massed choral scenes for the sailors, intricate ensembles and lush writing for a large orchestra.
In between the funky bass and drums of "Deeper Love" and the pulsing, urgent "4 Letter Word" (with its occasional split second rhythmic nod to Frankie Valli's "Grease") are infectious and irresistible dance tunes like "Any Way You Wanna," "Takin' Back My Boogie", "Love Revolution" and the lead single, "So Much Better".
"Panama" was churning but precise, and "Hot for Teacher," with its double bass drum cadence like a jack rabbit's pulse, was urgent and galvanizing.
