How To Use Musically In A Sentence
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The soft-spoken musician said he was also practising hard with his musician friends in Kabwe just to keep in shape musically.
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I feel that musically, melancholy tones are the most comforting.
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Ole Billie Bawlie" found as Number 4 was a little song which was used to deride men who had little ability musically to intonate "calls" and
Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
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This was a label that dominated musically as well as attracting and nurturing top-shelf vocal talent.
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Which is the perfect blend of what we're trying to do musically.
The Sun
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Musically gifted, she played several instruments in high school, and encouraged her own family to sing.
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Ruddy-faced men, bronze-faced men, pale-faced men; young women, girls, matrons and "flappers"; caddies burdened with bags of golf clubs and pockets bulging with cunningly found balls; skillful waiters hurrying here and there with trays on which glasses of various shapes, sizes, and of diversified contents tinkled musically-such was the scene at the
The Golf Course Mystery
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Jandek, an ultra-reclusive singer-songwriter specializing in unnervingly bleak psychodramas accompanied by an out-of-tune guitar, has been read as both incompetent and musically avant-garde.
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Rhythm patterns always are taught with musical inflection to aid in the audiation of meter and so students learn that music always is performed musically.
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Musically, it is the most impressive of this extraordinary mastodonic survival of the "pianistic" past.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Stones plinked out of the frozen face and rolled musically onto the moraine.
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She sings rather unmusically
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‘Shot in the Dark’ is nothing musically special but succeeds through the sheer injection of vim and uncompromising commitment.
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Musically and lyrically more direct than its predecessor, it reached deeper into the storytelling tradition.
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Musically, he began as a boy soprano and his music teacher took him to village halls to perform.
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They were greeted by staff playing all manner of musical instruments from tambourines to recorders and the less musically gifted banging pots and pans.
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Musically, Brahms spends little time depicting the dialogue of the fourth, fifth and sixth stanzas of the poem.
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I think this album is tremendous in several places, in fact; a messy, dissolute record that pulls off the stunt of being musically emotionally open while lyrically open to interpretation.
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It is entirely probable that Bach himself envisaged his scientific and musically profound opus as a solo keyboard work.
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Musically, Leave To Remain by Kathryn Williams is most closely related to Rejoicing In The Hands/Nino Rojo-era Devendra Banhart, and he's kind of folky, isn't he?
Watch The Kathryn Williams Hollow Video
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Mr. Andersen is a Balanchine regisseur-stager of rare acuity, and he has made his company one of the most musically intelligent in the world.
NYT > Home Page
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Musically, the songs are built around rudimentary drums and guitar (yes, they do use their fuzzbox), occasional bass and unbridled enthusiasm.
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Musically it is guaranteed to shatter any preconceptions about opera as a genre, certainly any notion of a homogenous genre.
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For the Frankfurt School critics, romantic and postromantic lyric dramatizes with special intensity modern aesthetic quasiconceptuality’s more general attempt to stretch conceptual thought proper; this special intensity arises from lyric’s constitutive need musically to stretch "objective" conceptual thought’s very medium, language — to stretch it quasiconceptually all the way towards affect and song, but without relinquishing any of the rigor of conceptual intellection. [
Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
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Musically speaking, their latest album is nothing special.
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Musically to break time of tempo is to brown off.
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Musically, it's i.e., the Boulez/Chéreau production from 1976-80 at Bayreuth unidiomatic.
Archive 2008-12-01
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The coins tickled the tips of his fingers very pleasantly as he let them fall, and jingled musically in the darkness.
The Fortune of the Rougons
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Musically, it's a more than worthy stab at superior feel-good pop - it's nice and jangly, he's got some catchy tunes, and his voice sounds great.
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Although the weather was hot, a line-up of bands entertained the musically inclined for the afternoon.
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It works musically I think, but is yet unproven dramatically.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although to say the man was a big influence on me musically would be a gross understatement, I will personally remember Piggy best for his disarming demeanour.
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All of the pieces are cast or constructed in nonferrous metals, so that they resonate musically.
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Lyrically and musically, the album's tone of entropy does more to underscore the miasma of dread most people feel under the current political conditions than it does to rebel significantly against it.
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Small vertical pianos, especially the compact but musically compromised spinet, now constitute a negligible portion of the piano business.
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This kind of relationship between music and visuals or environment becomes, musically at least, increasingly murky on this micro level as a sheer ‘spike’ in volume is no guarantee that a listener would make the corresponding connection to what they are hearing.
Archive 2008-12-01
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Musically, it often has a really boring part but that part is integral to the chord structure.
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Wherever he ventured musically-to the polar ice cape, the desert island, or along the Thames-Brown was found out by the very songs he caddishly courted.
CounterPunch
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The thing is, as I keep saying, musically and dramatically, it's unidiomatic.
Reconsidering the Boulez/Chéreau Ring
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Musically, Brown reached a plateau in the early 1970s when his band, the JBs, patented a muscular, jazzy funk, over which the group's leader could exhort and exclaim.
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Musically upbeat and swinging, the song works as a kind of hallucinogenic collage of advertising detritus think Mad Men meets The Magic Roundabout, with the vocal, narrated by Mitch Benn with Tim Dickenson as Greggery, drawn from 1950s marketing diction.
London Sinfonietta/Collon – review
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But during one of her movements the coins clinked musically.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
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His songs were rich both lyrically and musically, anthemic and yet intimate.
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We're getting together tonight to chat about what's next, and to play: with both last night and last week being less than productive musically, we want to *play*.
Another show (quiet)
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Motion, Avon Street, SatJohn MitchellThey may not be breaking much new ground musically – their mix of deep, tech and progressive house sounds would be familiar to a clubber who hasn't been out for over a decade – but Liverpool's Freeze still keep things fresh and interesting.
This week's new clubs
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Although it was a nice change musically that less of the choruses were harmonized, to be honest, this change made the group lose a lot of what made them unique.
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The 12 songs here reveal a band that's cocksure but never cocky, moody but never melodramatic and musically adept.
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Musically there is a lot to enjoy.
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It's not as good a show, musically, as 'The Most Happy Fella'.
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The Detroit-born musician has either musically directed or played the bass on more than 250 albums in less than 20 years.
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Here in the slow movement she allowed the gentle principal theme to flow naturally and above all musically.
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Sometimes efforts are made to convince members that they really are not gifted teachers or musically talented or prophetically inclined as they believed they were.
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Musically it draws on a huge range of influences - crunk, eight-bit techno and even rock get a look in.
Times, Sunday Times
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Musically, I have to say that the performance was quite thrilling, right from the opening bars of the overture.
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I wish the orchestra had been miked with more presence—it sounds a bit dull—but otherwise the production is musically impeccable, which is no small achievement given the complexities of Mr. Sondheim's score.
When Faith Draws Blood
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Which is the perfect blend of what we're trying to do musically.
The Sun
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Musically, Camden is constantly reinventing itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm an idiot musically. I can't sing.
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To be present at Indiana University for the world premiere of Vincent, a powerfully affecting opera by composer Bernard Rands and librettist J. D. McClatchy, is to remember again why Wagner insisted that "the highest perfection is reserved for the musically arranged drama.
Benjamin R. Barber: World Premiere of Bernard Rands' Opera Vincent at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
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His new album is not musically operatic - his songs are tediously boring, like a drag out of hell.
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Only the brightest sparks musically got the real instruments, such as the glockenspiels, i.e. those instruments upon which you could actually play more than one note.
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He went on to sire a dozen children, and they all grew up to be musically talented as well.
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The stems and large leaves on the stalk combine almost musically to enhance the richness of the composition.
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In short, it's musically the very kiss of death for a Bach keyboard work, and nothing, no matter how otherwise salutary, can overcome or compensate for its employment (or, rather, misemployment).
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While he demonstrates admirable aural fidelity to the concept, ideally a more musically compelling evocation would have made a stronger impression.
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Delves into amusia tone deafness, music therapy, musical hallucinations, imagined music, musically-induced seizures and more.
Musicophilia
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It's a small pity that the fa-la-la vocalise of the whole company isn't musically better, but it serves its purpose of getting the characters on and off stage in this raucously enjoyable evening.
'Laughing Comedy' Continues to Conquer
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_The Youth of Man_ do but take up less musically the _threnos_ for
Matthew Arnold
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The lack of sonic variety prevents most of the songs from making much of an impression musically, and in general lo-fi really starts to grate after about 20 straight minutes.
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But musically it was a pretty lame effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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This quartet is musically closer to the quartets of fellow Theresienstadt composers Ullmann and Schulhoff.
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But musically it was a pretty lame effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was for five decades a debonair man about town, a swinger musically and socially, the house pianist on the Playboy TV show and not a guy who had to make do with Hef's leavings from the grotto.
Broadway's Last Good Time
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When a pianist hits a sour note, even the musically untrained can tell.
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Musically they are part of a welcome trend away from slick 1990s production towards lo-fi sounds.
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Musically, the album is pretty peachy, and there are very few weak songs.
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Musically, the ensembles are tight, but the intonation and tone production of the three principals is unreliable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Musically it unfolds far too sedately, with vocal declamation over smoothly contoured orchestral ostinatos, pitched somewhere between recent Philip Glass and the John Adams of The Death of Klinghoffer, as the default musical idiom.
Two Boys - review
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They were greeted by staff playing all manner of musical instruments from tambourines to recorders and the less musically gifted banging pots and pans.
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For a large man the pianist leader here has kept a rather low profile musically on the local scene.
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It plods along for 13 minutes, 22 seconds without being musically or lyrically interesting.
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But what they have in common is the desire to express themselves musically in new ways, not being bound by what they have done in the past or what the audience may expect of them.
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For more casual fans this show was a reminder of how musically conservative and lazily derivative the grunge sound always was.
Times, Sunday Times
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This addition can be as simple as a wall spigot dripping musically into a trough banked with pots of bright flowers.
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For, as they listened, they could hear it musically trickling down, and in another part falling with a regular _pat, pat, pat_ on the rocky floor.
Menhardoc
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Musically, everything is absolutely fine, in a middle-of-the-road, unexceptional sort of way.
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Musically, their self-imposed imperative of the most basic, stripped-down sound possible simply denudes their songs of what little interest they may have triggered in the first place.
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Musically the band is as good as ever, but that was never the draw with this band.
Flixnjoystix.com! » FlixnJoystix Presents: Metaldy’s Melodic Musings! Reviewing Three Of The Latest Releases For Audiophiles!
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No probs if you're a mere punk rock beginner, the authors have helpfully included a list of good compilations, and a handy discography for those who want to delve a little deeper musically.
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The shifting regulations notwithstanding, winning entries tend musically to sound rather similar.
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Musically, he drew wantonly from every conceivable style.
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But what we get is a musically undistinguished, lyrically trite rock-show, tricked out with vampirism, incest and gore.
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Musically, the group captures a pressing sense of urgency devoid of anything trite or gimmicky.
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“Ah — how are you?” he asked musically, peering down on the great frame of the miner, ruined by locomotor ataxy.
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
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Musically, it seems fairly straightforward, but it's deceptively hard to pin down.
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Make a cohesive, musically organized set of songs, then stick it in a pretty little package.
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Lyrically and musically, the album's tone of entropy does more to underscore the miasma of dread most people feel under the current political conditions than it does to rebel significantly against it.
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Musically, they stroll rather than rock, constructing songs round punchy guitar harmonics and placid basslines.
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Musically, they are actually fairly good, in a generic sort of way.
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Musically, angelic guidance has rearranged priorities and sharpened his ear.
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It was Sicily, with its mix of European and African influences, that musically put the zing back into Kerr.
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Alas, she has grown earnest, musically and spiritually conservative, dulling with the passing years.
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If I were more musically knowledgeable, I would try to make an argument about the difference 20 years or so makes for pop music, Black women, and cars, but I don't think I can manage it, at least on any kind of generalizable terms.
A Few Cultural Notes
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Musically I guess the move played a part in developing my own sound by expanding my range of influences.
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Act sounds fine, musically and vocally; it just doesn't have the excitement of Daly's nitery debut.
Variety.com
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For we live, musically, in a genuinely postmodern world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Throw in waltzes, cool jazz, quasi-hymns, slinky beats and some country, and this might be the man's most musically diverse album.
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The marriage of architecture and acoustics is a bright idea, but for me the experience was underwhelming and musically limited.
Times, Sunday Times
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I knew a guitarist who called his capo a "cheater"; same idea, that those who use it are in some way cheating or using a crutch -- not following the rules, not fully "abled" musically.
Mandolin Cafe News
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Small vertical pianos, especially the compact but musically compromised spinet, now constitute a negligible portion of the piano business.
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The singers sang mostly accurately and musically with a good feel for the style.
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In their first rehearsals they were all over the place musically.
Times, Sunday Times
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Strayhorn 1915-1967 is usually classified as a Johnny-come-lately to the swing era, but generationally as well as musically speaking, his works are as well suited to beboppers and modernists as they are to big band and swing players.
Classic Sounds
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Its many polymorphous delights include its being a casebook of prosody, but its real achievement is its musically endgame equipoise and its intelligent, credible wisdom.
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Director/writer Bradley Rust Gray ought to give a high five to whomever created this trailer because its opening just hits the right beats both tonally and musically.
This Week in Trailers: When You’re Strange, 9 to 5: Days In Porn, 4 3 2 1, EV, The Exploding Girl | /Film
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The original Rubaiyat (as, missing an Arabic guttural, these tetrastichs are more musically called) are independent stanzas, consisting each of four lines of equal, though varied, prosody; sometimes all rhyming, but oftener (as here imitated) the third line a blank.
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Musically, however, he's immersed himself in Baker ever since originating the role for the Passe Muraille run.
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I've tried to unpick what the strange and fantastic phenomenon of Morrissey might represent psychologically, musically, sexually, and culturally.
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Their weeks are filled with convivial church suppers, musically upbeat prayer meetings, and jubilant testimony services.
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Excitingly articulate horn playing, lovely solo passages from section-leaders, refined tutti playing, and a musically shaped minuet all contributed to a thoroughly sparkling performance.
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Musically, the album isn't afraid of drawing on different instruments, from mouth organs to banjos, to acoustic guitars and piano.
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‘Musically it's uneven, but it's certainly got some gorgeous moments (like Magda's famous early aria ‘Chi il bel sogno di Doretta… ‘), and even Puccini's weaker passages are eminently stageable.’
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These tracks are both musically tight and vocally accomplished, making the album an extremely pleasant listen.
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Musically the main ingredients are guitar, drums and keyboard, plus didgeridoo (yidaki) and clapsticks (bilma).
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But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.
Nobel Lectures-Literature 1995
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So while I would be loathe to criticize someone for being out-of-the-loop, musically (cause eek, I hate it when people do that), this does feel a little… cribbed.
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Musically, everything is absolutely fine, in a middle-of-the-road, unexceptional sort of way.
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Musically this piece exists to excite gasps of admiration, if not downright adulation from the audience.
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Musically, this debut is lovingly and exactingly orchestrated with an array of instruments - not just the usual piano, cello, and drums, but also flute, organ, melodica, and horns - that subtly shade the songs' emotions.
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Both musically and lyrically it is very effective.
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His true forte, though, was always live performance and he continued to challenge himself musically throughout his career.
Times, Sunday Times
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I like to say, ` ` In Gold, '' and to see seven pounds musically pouring out of the shovel, like seventy; the Bank appearing to remark to me --- I italicise _appearing_ --- ` ` If you want more of this yellow earth, we keep it in barrows at your service. ''
The Uncommercial Traveller
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When buying an apartment, ask the co-op board for a complete list of all the musically inclined tenants.
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It was a delightful characterisation, underpinned by that wonderfully dark and sepulchral voice, used musically and never overdone.
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Musically, Camden is constantly reinventing itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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Visually and musically, the film retains a dignified composure.
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The evening started rather well - a mixed audience of both young and old, a full promenade section and a first piece, 20 years old, that both perplexed and encouraged choreographically, musically and aesthetically.
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It has made itself a laughing stock by including something as musically incompetent as the recording of show song standards by Rod Stewart.
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Musical kids -- and we aren't assuming some are born musically talented, but rather, they become musical through training -- tend to be more sensitive to changes in speech, which makes them better at phonologic spelling, vocabulary and even at understanding the emotional meaning behind speech.
Christine Carter, PhD: How Learning Music Can Enhance Kids' Brain Development
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Musically, he was itching for something new.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then as you grow older and you place what you've done musically against all the body of work that's ever been made, it humbles you hugely.
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The musically gifted have probably fared better than most.
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Musically it can easily be observed that the syllabic pieces are often simpler, the ornate pieces more extended in their melismata than in the Gregorian chant.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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And, musically, she's primally connected to a great feel.
Times, Sunday Times
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The manner in which this is done musically eschews any single influence, building tension from the control and repetition of simple gestures in its own world of musical balance and counterbalance.
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Musically, too, it proves deeply rewarding under Yves Abel's stylish Mozartian baton.
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It's uplifting symphonic praise, enticing us musically back into the Age of Aquarius.
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The combination of top quality performance and the ambience of the concerts has produced evenings of great enjoyment both musically and socially.
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Children may become lost or ensnarled, and some of their music may go missing without teachers and other musically proficient adults to help the young along, however.
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Musically gifted, she played several instruments in high school, and encouraged her own family to sing.
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Musically, the film is epic yet nuanced, and evidences an exquisite sensitivity to detail.
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Musically, you're getting a foot-tapping jangly pop tune which has an undeniably-strong folk influence but with the amplified element which justifies The May's presence in rock and pop venues, rather than folk clubs.
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The group is musically the more adventurous, but their lyrics seem a little lightweight compared to the in-yer-face political consciousness of their peers.
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Musically more forceful, big walls of rolling guitar ploughed through the album.
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She sang very musically
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The prisoner flapped his manacled wrists, as if he were shooing pigeons away; his chains rattled musically.
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‘Company was a bunch of one-act plays they strung together musically,’ says Holmes.
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But musically it was a pretty lame effort.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eventually all over the room clocks of diverse pattern musically chimed eleven.
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Musically, they recalled the xx more than any of the singer's pop star peers.
Times, Sunday Times
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While musically competent, these guys display no particular distinction, and the thrash guitar leads are pretty basic.
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Tracks like ‘Ganja’ are perhaps more frivolous, while folkish songs like ‘Miss Me My Dear’ are more earnest and musically sparse.
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Richard Taruskin: Stravinsky and the Russian traditions: a biography of the works through Mavra (Oxford, 1996); idem: Defining Russia musically: historical and hermeneutical essays (Princeton, 1997).
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-- Felicia Hemans, her lyre musically blending the song of sounding streams with the spontaneous melody of the "feathered choir" composing an epicedium to the memory of departed days, and proving her glorious claims to the poetic character, "creation's heir.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829
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Although Brendel generally does not look kindly upon his distant discographical past (he apparently "disowns" his world-premiere Prokofiev Fifth Concerto that closes disc 35), he certainly has little for which to apologize here, musically and pianistically speaking.
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Molina is one of those rare souls who takes himself wherever he is musically inclined to go regardless of trend, be it over- or underground.
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By this time he had become an international superstar, and suddenly had the clout to do pretty much whatever he wanted musically.
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To be musically literate is a lifetime of exploration.
Literacy News – 885th Edition « News « Literacy News
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But every note Lovett picked on his boutiquey Collings branded six-string during "If I Had a Boat," quirky as that song seemed when he released it in 1988, was as musically pure and beautiful as anything you'd hear at La Scala.
In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere
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But this too became for Beethoven ‘another form of self-denial,’ while musically he worked out ‘possible reconfigurations of musical form… [in order] to sound unplumbed depths of expressivity.’
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They are both very beautiful pieces, both musically and lyrically, and her voice is just gorgeous.
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He had a way of identifying certain unnoticed elements and touching on them, both musically and in his other interests.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Winning entries tend musically to sound rather similar.
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Politically and musically he is a master tactician.
Times, Sunday Times
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The musically inclined colonizers, even during the time of Warren Hastings used to refer to dancers as 'nautch' girls (naach for dance in hindi) and even used to host 'nautch' parties in their residence; some of them even attempted to play their raga based music on harpsichords.
ChennaiOnline Articles
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Musically, he was itching for something new.
Times, Sunday Times
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Musically there's a lot to digest here: African flutes, Spanish guitars and the shimmer of tablas and Balkan violins.
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he is musically illiterate
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Musically, he used three or four short notes followed by upward-reaching intervals, usually minor thirds or fourths.
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Wildflowers spread their sweet heady perfume along the gentle breezes and bees hum musically to themselves as they cheerily collect flower pollen.
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In most bands, the members need constant eye contact and body gesticulations in order to communicate musically.
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he is musically illiterate
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Both are first-class singers, so their duets and solos were dramatically as well as musically effective.
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Both brothers like their father, musically speaking, are rather erratic instant effect with quack, ornamental flourishes that be tied down to ponderous vistar.
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Musically, this is more funky marching angry fighting music, using similar instrumentation, and cheesy 70's beats.
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Musically the work is scored for a small orchestra, two pianos, cimbalom, and choir.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Although less well known than Britten, Tippett's operatic output was in many ways more musically varied and politically challenging.
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I found the event to be a musically invigorating experience.
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He has achieved so much in the three years since and has grown up in the public eye both personally and musically.
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The rose is represented musically by high notes played on flutes and little silver bells.
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Musically, we were all absolute beginners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Small vertical pianos, especially the compact but musically compromised spinet, now constitute a negligible portion of the piano business.
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Musically, he used three or four short notes followed by upward-reaching intervals, usually minor thirds or fourths.
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In fact, although Constanze was not such an accomplished singer as her two elder sisters, she was by no means musically illiterate.
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Musically, the next, extended subsection is built around the brooding, mainly narrowstepped cantus in violas, (later with cellos and horns), shown in Ex.1b, with sonorous chords above and below which settle on a sustained C in the bass.
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The children's mother, Lisa, an accomplished lyric soprano with a degree in vocal music, provided a musically nurturing environment for the siblings to study piano.
