How To Use Music In A Sentence

Do you really want ambient and drum'n'bass remixers stomping on your world music? Times, Sunday Times
The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
Of all types of commercially based American music, jazz is the one that has most consistently fostered musical artistry on a high level.
He literally danced his music into being, conducting his bass players, drummers and horn section with his hips.
It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.

I had written quite a lot of orchestral music in my student days.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
You know and, particularly, I'm interested in rhythmic concepts from South Indian music, and so, I work with a lot of these elements in my music. Vijay Iyer: Self-Taught Jazz Pianist Goes 'Solo'
Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish ---- only bless. (Arthur Schnabel , Austrian pianist.
Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
Four principal types of source pertain to the subject: literature, works of graphic or plastic art, archaeological remains, and notated pieces of music.
When it comes to rock music, the line is thin dividing the sacred and the profane. Christianity Today
And Johnson has some advice for people aspiring to a comfortable living playing music: ‘I've set it in my mind that I will not jive anybody, and not be jived by anybody.’
Added to that, his company is passionate about the relationship between live music and dance in performance.
What you do get, however, is a sequence of eleven pieces of music of astonishing variety.
Vigorously he hops and stomps along with the music.
In an attempt to thwart piracy of its music, the label equipped a collection of 52 album releases with a type of software known as a rootkit. ITnews Australia
I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
It is this potential for music to express contradictory, sometimes inexpressible emotions that drives Ward to write songs.
Something of an all-star outfit, each band member is an accomplished musician with an impressive r sum and enormous talent.
The feeling of movement - discussed as kinaesthesia - is married to a musical sequence, by which the shapes seem to converse in a kind of inner-skull environment.
In some present-day music the individual syllables of words are used primarily for their sound quality and seem disconnected from the rest of the text.
His second album released with Sony showed his talent as a serious music writer of original works.
More nuanced music suffered, largely due to the tonearm. Times, Sunday Times
The background music was provided by an accordion player.
Yet he's also studied jazz and Indian music and learnt to play the sarod, so his band achieves a curious rapprochement between world-jazz and heads-down, no-nonsense boogie.
His hobbies included tending the many trees in his garden, hillwalking, classical music, opera and photography. Times, Sunday Times
But going back to the days when I was seeing these epics first time round, in the fleapits and bug-hutches of south-east Leeds - most of them converted music halls or disused chapels - we didn't give a hoot what the title of the film was.
When they relate poetry to music, they invite harsh criticism on two fronts, not just one.
The brothers then went on tour, filling theatres with ghostly music, flying coats and spirit voices.
The new musical wowed them on Broadway.
An awesome book - what Robinson is particularly good at is figuring out how Chaplin pieced together out of accident, inspiration and music hall stunt, what turned into complex, archetypal early film narrative.
One reason for his relative obscurity has been the general unavailability of his music: his works remained unpublished during his lifetime and, apart from some ‘easy’ tonal compositions, largely unperformed.
Most African music features one singer or star, but this is a guitar band. Times, Sunday Times
Music is too elusive an art to be quantified in this way. Times, Sunday Times
At a time when they were still singing soupy Victorian hymns in churches, this choir performed relatively modem music.
In his abstract ballets or interpretations of music, he rarely worried about the mood or emotional content of the music.
Surrounded by musicians and men who directed its movement, and followed by child maskers, the Ijele begin to spin, slowly at first, then gaining speed.
You know, when the Beatles started there was a record company guy who said electric guitar music was finished.
With some more practice, we'll soon lick this piece of music into shape for the performance.
Orchestral music and opera are expensive because they need large numbers of people. Times, Sunday Times
My musical tastes don't overlap with my brother's at all.
The two merchants didn't look entirely pleased to have the players mooching off of their business, but it was obvious to the eyes of an outsider that the music was actually attracting customers.
Poland has ten symphony orchestras, seventeen conservatories, over one hundred music schools, and almost one thousand music centers.
From Australia and New Zealand to Malaysia and India — in text and film and music and image — this booklet is a snapshot of the Asian commons. ACIA: Furthering the Commons in Asia
There are many bars and night clubs, complete with music and dance.
At night it is gaudy with Japanese lanterns and Mexican music.
Watch our expert show you an example of jamming in an Ab major scale in this free video clip on music theory.
Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too. Archive 2009-02-01
The name is dowitcher. article in Monday's Calendar section about the Coachella Music and Arts Festival said Paul McCartney played a portion of Jimi Hendrix's "Foxy Lady. Undefined
While she did sing live, she was accompanied by taped music and voices. Times, Sunday Times
In the first place there was some music; then tables were placed all about for all kinds of gambling; there was a 'lansquenet'; at which Monsieur and Monseigneur always played; also Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
People miss out on one key thing about when Bill left music to be a jobbing farmer.
The music picked up the tempo and overhead a saxophone played sweet jazz.
The group, composed of four brilliant and accomplished musicians playing the guitar, mandolin, bagpipe, piccolo and violin, will bring their highly original sound to the stage.
Her favorite things at school are music and recess.
November, Sony Music issued a track called quell rumours that some of Jackson's vocals on the album were "fake". The Guardian World News
Rounds are no longer written in modern musical styles, and remain untouched by developments in chromatic harmony, atonality, jazz idioms, serial structures and folk modes.
In many cases, well-qualified songs from musicals, operettas, vaudeville, and revues, as well as variety shows, music hall, and cafe concert, were recruited for use in cabarets.
Huge white tents jostle for space with music stages. Times, Sunday Times
Yet Highland culture continues to flourish through the Gaelic language, piping, ceilidhs (informal gatherings with traditional music, dancing and poetry) and a full schedule of Highland games.
It's not related to the band because it isn't music in any shape or form, just anguished, terrifying pure sound.
What has become the largest event in Camarillo, the Camarillo Art & Jazz Festival welcomes a prestigious line up of well-known musicians and artists that will entertain and delight visitors over the entire weekend period. Camarillo Art & Jazz Festival August 10th – August 12th
A group of promising young musicians, accompanied by Peter Duffy, played a selection of polkas, marches, and the lovely air ‘Inis Oirr’.
Cultural theorist Charles Mudede has written extensively on pop music, specifically hiphop.
It was being musicians for the sake of something to do. The Sun
What do you think to this new musical group?
Possibly one of the most important memories I have of learning about music as a teenager was me and my mate sneaking into his big brother's bedroom and putting on his records on his super quality hi-fi.
A neo-Classical representation of folk music and simplicity, this small work was written in honor of Enesco and Jora on their 60th and 50th birthdays.
Brahms finished off his sacred choral music with the Op. 110 motets, another trilogy.
Blues music, as he sees it, is simply part of a continuum of black pop.
Both Bach and Beethoven wrote classical music.
Folks may crow all they want about the roar of Niagara or the growlin’ of the sea—but give me a splendacious peal o’ stormbrewed thunder and your other nat’ral music is no more than a penny whistle is to a church organ! Nevermore
Their show consists of two hours of adult side-splitting comedy and brilliant live music.
I suspect it's because they make some of the most amazing, anthemic, inspiring music around today.
It is also useful for some contemporary music where a light, jazz-style accompaniment is required.
When she founded NYBDC in 1976, it was an academic discipline focused on reconstructing the steps of old dances, their names — among them the minuet and gavotte — familiar from the music of Bach and Handel. Stepping Through History
A Serious Man" draw from their writer-directors 'personal histories, while "Nine" reimagines Fellini's semiautobiographically impressionistic "8 as a musical. Variety.com
It will include harpists, a soprano soloist accompanied by the flute and spinet and music by Mozart as well as other lesser-known composers.
Then as well we were treated to beautiful Mozart and Strauss music by a delightful quintet in traditional costume.
His favourites are biographies of sixties and seventies musicians, and pop and rock stars.
Not that I read any more or make music or write - I just vegetate in front of the myriad digital channels we now have.
If the instrumentation is more sparse, the music is no less symphonic in its scale and approach than we would hope.
Preachers paid for time to sermonize, listeners could call in, some slots were reserved for Christian music.
He also seems to write with little concern for cadence, leaving himself stumbling over excess syllables and quixotically stuffing verbal square pegs into musical round holes when it comes time to sing.
I did some Coca-Cola ads for South America and they wanted a tango, samba and cha-cha-cha music, and all of the basic ideas came from CDs I'd worked on for WMN.
Hard graft and study of the score allowed him to master a wide repertoire without nationality kinships questioning his ability to conduct music from all periods.
She told me about the lecture and all the satanic messages in rock music. Christianity Today
Pop music has no purer form of insufferableness than the I-love-my-child motif.
From death metal to violins and Jewish harps, folk music, punk, soul, reggae and gospel, we've got it all.
This is a comparatively extrovert third album from the talented and technically advanced young Scots harper and pianist, now sojourning in Barcelona and soaking up even more musical influences.
It will be timed to coincide with the main music festival season. Times, Sunday Times
With the rollout of Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, continuing through the end of November (click here for screening locator), a classical music sighting is made that the famous 18th century philosopher Moses Mendelssohn would have been proud of. Laurence Vittes: Classical Music Media Sighting: Felix Mendelssohn Introduces Interview With Sandy Koufax
She spoke in a high but not unmusical note, very quickly, and with timid glances to either side of her collocutor. Eve's Ransom
Every now and then a graceful movement of his left arm through the air preceded his entry into the music, as though he were offering a cue to an imaginary force.
IT'S a well-known fact that footballers have embarrassing tastes in music. The Sun
Words have now been written to that well - known piece of music.
Koité, from Northwestern Mali, is a member of the hereditary Mande caste of musicians and craftsmen known as jalis.
For decades, such films were low-grade romances with weak plots interfused with 20-odd musical outbursts.
‘Oh, I think the music's great,’ responded our darling son in a replay, no doubt, of father-son conversations taking place all over the world.
Looking back over the many extracurricular activities that our children have dabbled in at different stages, nothing has enriched their lives more than music.
Even with a load of electronic gadgetry, you still need some musical ability to write a successful song.
This apart, in modern times the western musical instruments like the Tambourin and the Tambour are adaptations of the Indian Tambora and Tanpura.
We crammed into the small kitchen, drank tea and talked politics, philosophy and music. Times, Sunday Times
A Catalan parade will kick off an exuberant evening of Catalonian dance, music and fireworks.
I am rehearsing the music every day because it has to blend well with the dialogues.
The finale is a joyous fantasia on much of the music deployed earlier with such skill and evident delight.
Appropriately, the movements are accompanied by live electronic and acoustic music.
It would be too easy to turn it into another documentary style presentation complete with archive footage, computer animation and mood music.
It seemed that every bar, no matter how tiny, had wedged a trio of musicians into a corner - one singing, one playing guitar and another scratching out a raspy beat on the guiro, a hollow gourd played with a stick.
We also befriended a local compost supplier, a music producer and a writer. Times, Sunday Times
Text and music do not necessarily coincide in their classification: a ferial text may have a seasonal melody; equally a seasonal, proper or common text may use a ferial melody (eg a short respond or versicle and response).
That and music that seems to bubble through you like vintage champagne. Times, Sunday Times
There was also a live concert of indigenous music and a lavish banquet.
She also has a teeny-tiny musical quaver tattooed on her neck. Times, Sunday Times
Bolivian music also uses the charango, which is a cross between the mandolin, guitar, and banjo.
The musical instruments symbolize an underlying harmony behind nature's powers, to which the successful alchemist must himself be attuned.
First, his performances of musical masterpieces are spare and unadorned. Times, Sunday Times
To demonstrate fidelity to the deceased family member, a band of wind and percussion instruments is often present to perform both traditional and popular music.
Angry Reader has a point about "spill," and while I can see Joel's point about it being what people call it, I respectfully suggest that it's that logic which got us to the point where we called chaining people to walls, beating them, freezing them, blasting music and noise at them at decibel levels high enough to inflict pain, electrifying their genitals, humiliating them and then drowning them repeatedly "enhanced interrogation techniques. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
The society often arranges poetry readings and musical evenings.
As they seated themselves at table Brahms, who had been in a brown study, suddenly proffered the company an extemporaneous criticism of Ivan's music, which he tore into miscroscopic bits, and flung upon the winds of sarcasm; after which he perorated elaborately upon his own power and the perfect academic accuracy of his style. The Genius
He a first - class horseman and musician.
To one side of the central playing area is another book with its spine in the air, forming a shelter for six unseen musicians. Times, Sunday Times
Years of research led the Mitchells to an ancient musical system called cymatics, or Chladni patterns, which are formed by sound waves at specific pitches. Musicians crack melodic code within Da Vinci chapel
What sort of music would you listen to if you did have a whizzy waterproof iPod and didn't have to concentrate and count? Rebecca Adlington | Small Talk
The Largo is done broadly and is less nostalgic than tragic; some suspect intonation from the wind choir reduces the music's power somewhat.
Singers, musicians, dancers and storytellers are always appreciated on St. Patrick's Day.
La Tour 1704–1788, the son of a musician, was born in Saint-Quentin, a small town in Picardy, France. A Tour de Force, Honest and Engaging
It takes great discipline to learn a musical instrument.
(Soundbite of music) DAVIES: If you're just joining us, our guest is actor Michael Caine. Michael Caine Reflects On His 'Hollywood' Career
They call this chin music, the symphony of the jugular. The Sun
This music is a one-way ticket to your own personal paradise.
He has studied and performed jazz from bebop to fusion, played as fluently with hardcore and heavy metal musicians as with soundtrack samples.
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These used rotating discs to initiate a quasi-musical sound which was then filtered, processed and reproduced at different pitches.
The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
Referred to simply as the Gothic Cruise (for brevity), this cruise is for fans of goth and industrial music and has been held annually for the past 15 years. Twilight Lexicon » Go Cruising Vampire Style
Playing a prominent role in Atayal music is the Jew's harp.
In a pipe organ of quality each pipe is a carefully-designed and individually-voiced musical instrument which produces only one frequency of sound.
It's a beautiful album, and solo acoustic music doesn't get much better than this.
Opera is music, drama, literature, dance, theater and art as a comprehensive integration of art, usually by the Aria, Recitative, ensemble, chorus, Overture, Intermezzo , dances and other components.
It might seem meshuga to stage a beloved musical in a language that most of the audience won't understand.
The music swings and the professionals perform elaborately energetic movements.
The family show includes colourful costumes, lively characters, music, comedy and audience participation.
The prelude to the musical composition is very long.
A brief program with music and merriment begins the ceremony, then an honorary candlelighter lights his or her candle and starts passing it along through the crowd. Zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News
A focus on texts and their position in all kinds of Italian secular vocal music of the time leads to a rather wordy book not very easy to follow in its layout, especially when a music example precedes its reference.
And, then, before he knew it, another song had started up; the same voice, the same wonderful, mind-blowing music.
I think the only trouble with punk music is that there's no music. The Sun
I think there are certain items in a piano competition that are not matters of musical opinion or taste.
He has read widely in the archives, and listened afresh to the music of the period.
Among the dainties was a live pig, which squeaking and grunting in anticipation of its fate, supplied to this orderly procession the absence of a musical band. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1
He waited there while the cathedral began to reverberate with a lovely, godly music. THE BROKEN GOD
The air around the hill of Knocknashee is responding to the sound of music these days and nights.
The seven young musicians play an exciting assortment of instruments including bodhran, accordion, bouzouki, guitar, bass, fiddle, Asturian bagpipes and flute.
Musical notation for instruments, based on figures, letters, or other symbols instead of conventional staff notation.
Note the telling musical score, anticipating events, cueing the audience as to when to be scared, assuming we cannot figure that out ourselves.
Can television and pop music really be considered art?
You can enjoy the Wild West Horse, Hound and Music Show, which will feature barrel racing, trick riding, comic horses, Appaloosa ponies and American Quarter Horses.
He came from a musical family, and he played the trumpet and the saxophone and had a fondness for jazz. Times, Sunday Times
Something of an all-star outfit, each band member is an accomplished musician with an impressive r sum and enormous talent.
Music critics have often poured scorn on progressive rock for being boring, pompous and pretentious. Times, Sunday Times
He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician
Brown, a captivating and mysterious Midwesterner whose intimate slices of life are as heart-achingly beautiful as she is, will begrudgingly let listeners step into her secret hiding place filled with honest-to-goodness words and music about the human condition. Michael Bialas: Why Pieta Brown Digs the Music of Dylan, Dire Straits and her Dad
Above all, she has the confidence to slow the narrative tempo down almost to zero: a condition of stasis in which the moment is held, like a musical note, for as long as she wishes it.
It will be an excuse for me to write ecstatic repetitive cells of music. Times, Sunday Times
The crowd is chock-a-block with people who like all kinds of music, and there are only very few acts that can cater for such an assorted group of people.
The New Zealander-Australian country music star battled an addiction to cocaine in the late '90s, but cleaned up before releasing his self-titled American debut in 2000.
Music leaked softly from the windows behind him, when he'd resumed his seat on the glider.
In musical concretism, a material or concrete sound is one which reveals its affinity to the source of the sound.
Her daughter conducted a salon that became a gathering place for the writers, artists, and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance.
Diana's house was crowded with happy people whose spontaneous outbursts of song were accompanied by lively music.
By the 1960s, whites too had become avid fans of township jazz, which had sprouted into kwela's instrumental music and mbaqanga, a vocal jazz style.
Leinsdorf shows unwonted impetuosity in his approach to tempos, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, while not consistently as refined as it could be, plays the music tautly.
Cher's music career continued to flourish, but the Oscar made her a genuine movie star, even if she's only made a handful of movies since.
This fifteen metre, golden statue has sat here for 30 years and while its bulk is impressive, don't expect meditative solemnity; the forecourt is noisy with music, stalls and snack bars.
Before a child can learn a musical instrument he or she first needs to acquire the necessary manipulative skills.
When you think of a classical music composer, blokes with gold teeth and a shaved head probably don't spring to mind! The Sun
He distanced himself from the strictly religious aspects of the music.
At times, however, music of great austerity and purity is shattered by painful, pounding discords.
This style of shooting matches up beautifully with tango music.
The film gives us a peep behind the curtain at a Broadway musical.
Making music: A percussion and music workshop for children takes place at Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall tomorrow at 11.15am.
As he came towards the end of his school career in 1920 he realised that he could not pursue both music and science.
After churning out some of Bollywood's most melodious tunes, music directors and partners Jatin-Lalit are all set to go.
So, the increasingly relaxed attitude of the police has meant that more musicians are now able to do a spot of casual busking in order to make some quick cash.
The band plays music that's supposedly hypnotic yet danceable.
Their vices and their virtues and their music, and their greed and their fairyism and their militarism, all seem to have been roasted in a hurry, and to contain, like red meat, the natural juices to an extent that seems to us excessive. This Is the End
It is important that they do not associate classical music with a bunch of doddery old men.
It is up to you to decide whether sparkling stop-motion animation, catchy music, and a hearty dose of dry British humor is enough to overcome an uninvolving allegorical plot.
The music is fantastic and songs from all genres are covered. The Sun
They are born artists: dancers who writhe rhythmically; musicians - singing intervals long before they speak language.
This year's Christmas lights switch-on promises to be a extravaganza with fairground rides, a street fair and musical entertainment.
The clanking sounded systematic somehow; not rhythmic like a drumbeat in music, yet purposeful.
Unlike his usual style, the symphony ends with an adagio that includes some of the most anguished music he ever composed.
In some ways that's no bad thing - what else is dance music for if not to compel you to boogie?
You have to be a very dedicated musician to get to the top.
(Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
I'm really into folk music.

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