Sentence examples for vocal gesture from inspiring English sources
Note for note, vocal gesture for vocal gesture, syllable for syllable.
There is such a thing as being too expressive, and here every vocal gesture seemed followed by an exclamation point.
Sometimes, as she executes an expressive turn or vocal gesture, her voice will become breathy in the middle range or hard-edged on climactic high notes.
"Every phrase, every vocal gesture and every theatrical move has been painstakingly considered," Bernard Holland wrote in The New York Times, "making this Carmen more a collection of calculated details than an entity in itself.
Surprisingly, his husky whisper can hit an empathetic high note of concern; he often ends a line with a plaintive "O.K.?" -- a vocal gesture like a comforting hand on a shoulder.
And no matter how modest a show this might be, given the subject, nearly every work, from the smallest print to Ms. Piper's more vocal gesture, contributes to that longer, larger and louder conversation about race in this country, which predates and eclipses any one artist's effort.
In a concert performance of "Parsifal" in Amsterdam she even dispensed with extramusical vocal gestures called for in the score.
But he managed by keeping it in the middle register and by adding small vocal gestures to the rhythm cycles — percussive uh-uhs and dibba-dibbas, gospel grunts.
Ms. Dhegrae finished her set with Lautaro Mantilla's uncomfortable but moving "Bravement" for 13 sopranos and as many light bulbs, which plays on themes of community, censorship and self-expression through wordless humming, sighs and other vocal gestures.
Instead, he's an earnest and direct singer who wrings feeling from small vocal gestures and whose songwriting — he contributed to 9 of the 10 songs here — is graceful, with twists like small sighs.
In one scene, short, light-textured underwater sounds were matched to an aqua field in which the vocal gestures seemed to trigger concentric circles like those formed when a raindrop hits a pond.
