Sentence examples for vocal quotation from inspiring English sources
Familiar concepts from television, like "comedy" and "act structure" were spoken of with vocal quotation marks around them.
An article in The Arts on Thursday about the final broadcast of the weekly WXQR-FM radio program "The Vocal Scene" and its host, George Jellinek, included a quotation with an erroneous reference to the operatic voice of Titta Ruffo.
Ms. Sankaram's score embraces electronica, beefy 1950s pop riffs, Baroque string figuration, lush Romantic texturing, Hindustani classical music, R&B vocals, tango and direct quotations from rock songs.
The Third Symphony is overtly linked by Tippett to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony through a vocal finale of four blues songs, introduced by a direct quotation from Beethoven's finale.
But Ruders' score lacks a distinctive flavour, veering between idioms and underpinning characterless vocal lines with overloaded and overheated orchestral writing that resorts too often to quotation (Amazing Grace, and Bach's Bist du bei mir are heavily exploited).
An outstanding example is the middle movement of his "Sinfonia" for orchestra and vocal octet (1968-9), where the entire scherzo from Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony rolls along, supporting a tapestry of short quotations, new ideas and spoken interjections.
(Possibly apocryphal quotation).
Springsteen in quotation marks?
(See quotation, Tench, 1789).
