How To Use Percussive In A Sentence
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By the close their ranks have doubled into a colourful army stamping out percussive rhythms in wooden sandals.
Times, Sunday Times
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I want to see what shadows are cast by a Calder mobile dangling from an ear, or to hear what kind of percussive music it creates.
Body Sculpture Crafted by Calder
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Perhaps it was the overzealous con brio on the part of cellist Andrés Díaz: maybe there are a lot of sforzandi in the score, but from where I sat I heard more percussive bowstrikes than pure tone more often than I would have liked.
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Matthew had acquired a tank which trundled over the carpet emitting small but sharp percussive explosions accompanied by a shower of sparks.
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Two distant percussive thuds, like a car door being slammed, sound from across the river and two more shells barrel overhead with a low growl.
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A modern day rockabilly queen, May breathes new life into an old genre, and her use of a bodhran is a quirky touch that fits her highly percussive sound to a T. 's 24-year-old bright young thing Victoria Hesketh AKA Little Boots is being tipped by the
Expecting Rain
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His touch and tone are wonderful, and on the solo pieces his use of percussive sounds, banging chords, glowering bass figures and scampering uptempo lines make him sound like an innovator.
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This third march evokes the humor of Haydn, with many funny percussive rhythmic effects in a call and response format between secondo and primo, which Ms. Crawford performed superciliously.
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Tap shoes have thin metal plates, usually made of aluminium, screwed onto the sole and heel, allowing dancers to create percussive effects as they move.
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The wild and provocative intonations of the danse du ventre hit our ears as one dancer broke into convulsive movement, arms, legs, torsos echoing the percussive sounds in angular responses.
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Abstract: The harm of percussive ground pressure, produced reason, conditions and protective measures are introduced.
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Warm melodic figures are juxtaposed with harsher percussive patterns, setting up some fascinating contrasts in sound.
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Right now turntablism is very percussive.
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Tap shoes have thin metal plates, usually made of aluminium, screwed onto the sole and heel, allowing dancers to create percussive effects as they move.
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The performance is exceedingly professional and occasionally stirring, mostly when frontman Dougy Mandagi trades vocal wailing for wailing on a floor tom to join drummer Toby Dundas in creating a forceful, percussive rumble.
FreeFest: Drama club with the Temper Trap
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The harm of percussive ground pressure, produced reason, conditions and protective measures are introduced.
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The rhythm guitar is played using a distinct percussive technique, "la pompe", that essentially replaces the drums; however, in Eastern gypsy jazz, rhythm section is most likely covered by one or two cymbaloms, or (less frequently) a cymbalom and an acoustic guitar (the cymbalom accompaniment technique is called in Romanian "ţiitură").
Archive 2008-03-01
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There was an arrangement of Coltrane's "Moment's Notice" with Chestnut spinning droplets of notes over the percussive chuff of the violins and the bass-like thumping of the cello; a joyous rendition of Clapton's "Crossroads"; and Marshall's bass mandolin, down-home-sounding version of "Gator Strut.
In performance: Turtle Island Quartet at 25
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Percussive rhythm and pointillist effects propel this chant-like song depicting death as a beautiful woman marching on a road of bleached bones; difficult intervals, many sevenths and ninths.
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Their imminent frontality is buoyant and percussive -- somewhere between a wall of water and a wall of flame.
The Lighthearted Abstract Expressionist
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But these percussive jitters are anchored by MIA's engaging, half-rapped, half-chanted vocal melodies.
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The wiry, plangent sound of Kurosaki's 1801 violin is perfectly complemented by the percussive but singing tone of Linda Nicholson's Viennese fortepiano, especially effective in the powerful C minor Sonata Op 30 No 2.
Beethoven: violin sonatas vol 4, op 30 nos 1 - 3; violin sonatas 'Kreutzer' op 47, no 10 op 96
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Instrumental support, which mostly doubles the vocal lines, is provided by bamboo flutes, two-stringed viols, lutes, dulcimer, and panpipes, gently seasoned by percussive punctuation.
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I slept fitfully, awakened from time to time by my fears alone, at others by the haunting war cries or the percussive sound of an explosion in the distance.
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On the piano such chords have a fine percussive effect.
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The third group - percussive string instruments chordophones are represented by the hammer dulcimer.
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The more acceleration, the more transient noise and therefore the more "percussive" is the resulting sound.
'Playing the Piano'
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He's a bedroom wizard, finessing the ragged street sounds of garage and hip hop into sleek, clipped cyber-beats; employing everything from maracas to car alarms in his percussive quest.
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Tyner's limpid chording is economical, percussive and sleekly propulsive; on the album's only ballad, Mal Waldron's ‘Soul Eyes’ he takes a short but delicate solo sandwiched between the leader's passionate statements.
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Forsberg has produced 11 fine tracks, which share an attention to memorable moments but otherwise vary widely, from heavy percussive polyrhythm to spacious drone to quiet song.
Disquiet » Wide-Ranging Denmark Debut
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Warm melodic figures are juxtaposed with harsher percussive patterns, setting up some fascinating contrasts in sound.
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Largo has its Radiohead cover tune ( "Paranoid Android") all right, but this time Mr. Mehldau's choices serve his larger project of hammering out an original jazz-pop fusional language, harmonically spare, percussive and beautiful in its rather severe way.
Just Remember These: Most Desirable Discs of 2002
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The pianist was first out of the gate, ripping syncopations from his keyboard that augured a percussive player.
Debra Levine: L.A.'s Freedom Jazz Movement Plays China's Henan Province
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Friday’s artist is also interested in percussive string instruments but favors the harp over the piano.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Percussively, there are hints of funkiness and electronica (especially in the verses) blended into powerful pop choruses.
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Despite the lack of rhythm in these pieces, a rich base of percussive sound has also been tapped - though only the very brave would attempt to dance to them.
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This is good stuff, the chords and the melody seem evermore effective on this percussive version, and to quote the sleeve notes ‘If you feel like dancing, why not?’
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Rather than the guitar, Cuban musicians have always favoured the tres, an acoustic instrument with three pairs of strings and a quite different, harsher and more percussive sound.
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Warm melodic figures are juxtaposed with harsher percussive patterns, setting up some fascinating contrasts in sound.
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This is a pounding tribal techno track, complete with various jungle animal sound effects and thumping percussive loops.
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Most notably, Leo reveals a deeper fascination with all things percussive - rarely does a track not feature noisemakers or tambourines rattling around somewhere in the mix.
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Brown has explained the song as an experiment in ‘the power of the percussive upbeat’.
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The greatest thing about this picture, adapted from a novel by "William Irish" (a pen name for Cornell Woolrich) is its completely invented reality which, while certainly informed by German Expressionism, spins off into a realm of horrific hilarity, as in the picture's legendary "jazz drummer" sequence, wherein Raines, dolled up and playing hep-kitten, eggs on hopped-up Elisha Cook Jr. (who has information that could exonerate Raines 'boss) to a kind of percussive orgasm.
In The Company Of Glenn
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The music begins with an allegro animato which is reflective and oriental in its delicacy, but also contains more dramatic percussive music.
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In Irish clog dancing, the wooden footwear is used by striking the heel or toe against the floor to create percussive, syncopated, “off-beat” or “downbeat” rhythms.
A Renegade History of the United States
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This should be a subtly sexy piece with flowing movement that acts as a counterpoint to the percussive orchestral castanets.
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For 25 years, he's been building his own ‘Tuku music’ style, blending trad mbira thumb-piano melodies and percussive katekwe, township mbaqanga and zesty Zimbabwean jit.
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percussive music
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An untidy black lettering crawls all over these signs, overpacking them with percussive, ambiguous syllables.
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Warm melodic figures are juxtaposed with harsher percussive patterns, setting up some fascinating contrasts in sound.
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I'm not saying children's entertainment has to be loud, flashy, and percussive - far from it.
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His marimba and vibes contribute further percussive accents, and the intricate multiple meters and contrapuntal figures add up to a rhythmic feast for the listener.
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The shards of glass that have fallen inside the booth rattle in sympathy with the grinding percussive rhythm.
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They all came in handy as he tapped out a percussive portrait of bouncing breasts and boogalooing bottoms sashaying by on a summer day.
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That sound adds to the percussive elements of the performance, and also creates yet another pattern of motion.
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The song is a punchy, buoyantly percussive electro-pop-rock offering.
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Grupo Batuque, like Paul Horn, have created a rhythmic melange of percussive sounds from Brazilian, African and Indian sources.
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The place was packed and noisy, with chopsticks clicking against plates in percussive counterpoint to the boisterous conversations.
Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull
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With the tracks largely bereft of melody or theme, Villalobos dives ever more deeply into percussive gumbo and leaves accessible hooks behind.
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His sorrowful songs are more cautious this time, his percussive guitar sounds less prominent, while his noisy, electric numbers need more wild fury.
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Featuring on the show will be percussive sounds and harmonies of African music across the continent.
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Yet when the film ramps up, with the underlying percussive score beginning to race like a thumping heartbeat, it explodes in an all-out orgiastic bloodletting intercut with a joyous dance sequence.
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The balls make a percussive and melodic sound, whose pitch depends on how fast the ball is moving when it hits the line.
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If you look at tribes, they have had their percussive dance music for so many years.
The Sun
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It helped me to develop this kind of percussive - intricate, percussive style.
Marcus Miller Performs Live in NPR's Studio 4A
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Now, after having dabbled in the dark percussive arts whilst enjoying my teenage years, and a spate as the crash-cymbalist in our high-school concert band, it has been a while since i've hit the skins, so to speak.
Ringo, eat your heart out!
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If the bubbles are smaller or larger, then the percussive sounds will come more or less rapidly and they all have pitches attached to them.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tuba provides foursquare, marching-band / Dixieland resonance, the oud lends tart, percussive bite, and the bowed cello contributes some highbrow ambience.
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The gamelan of Bali in particular attracted him, as it had Debussy and Ravel, with its sharp contrasts of rippling color and percussive blows.
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Indeed, it's our memory of Sarno's film, with its arousingly percussive score, that pointed out the inadequacy of MACUMBA SEXUAL's anemic and overly aerated synth score, which does nothing to communicate the power of Tara's effectively staged macumba rite or to resonate with any of the bizarre African nick-nacks adorning her desert lair.
Archive 2006-10-01
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Bursts of vicious guitar abuse, chattering electronics and blurty synths weave over stuttering, semi-metronomic percussives.
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There are metallic overtones and an accompanying percussive sound, as if something were pounding upon an electric guitar's strings.
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In the image, you see an oscillogram of a percussive tone.
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Theirs is a dark, driving, percussive sound, charged with melancholic energy, and yes, very much a Polish sound.
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The dancer wears special shoes with metal cleats so that when the toe or heel is tapped on the floor it makes a distinctive percussive sound.
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Ardoin and McGee played with singular intimacy, the white man's fierce bow strokes and keening melody lines meshing instinctively with his Creole counterpart's hot, percussive chording.
Album review: "Mama I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin"
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There are metallic overtones and an accompanying percussive sound, as if something were pounding upon an electric guitar's strings.
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The amplification not only of the musicians but the dancers — the stage floor is miked to project the percussive footwork — tends to distort rather than clarify the music and dancing.
A Broad View of Flamenco
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The shotgun blast was followed by a sharp percussive explosion as the entire hillside lit up in a white phosphorescent glare.
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Longtime fans of the genre love it too, but if you're looking to initiate a reluctant friend into the percussive pleasures of chopsocky cinema, this is a fine place to start.
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This release traces the lesser-known repertoire of one of the more fertile minds in jazzy, nuanced, percussive house.
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Her inversion of the line "My country tis of thee" on "My Country" into a percussive explosion remains one of the year's headiest thrills.
Funk Yards, Beacon Blues
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Among the band's most deceptively complex fare, "Lotus Flower" weaves a spartan electronic bass line through a percussive game of patty-cake, while a billowing vocabulary of electronic sounds float into the picture, almost intravenously.
Album review: Radiohead, "The King of Limbs"
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Mr. DEACON: I just wanted a word that had no preexistent meaning, but had like, a low sort of percussive type tone.
On Tour With Dan Deacon And His Veggie Oil Van
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The whip-like, in-a-trance polyrhythm of "Snakecharming the Masses" recalls the percussive sounds they heard during their musical journeys in Istanbul.
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The Latin theme continues with the Bay Area Peruvian group De Rompe y Raja, who will showcase the art of zapateo criollo, a percussive dance form that mixes African rhythms with Creole,
World Music Central
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The introduction of metal-jacketed cartridges containing a percussive, explosive charge and a bullet in a single unit enabled Gatling to invent a self-loading primitive machine gun.
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With the help of little percussive sounds, he broke up the linearity of the main texture of flux.
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Yet right from the start - that bass-drum paradiddle with a percussive undercurrent that sounds like the rattle of a stage thunder machine - the recording is downright witty in its sonic variations.
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Pete Coe returns to the club on January 22 with his bouzouki, banjo, dulcimer, melodeon and percussive step-dancing.
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Schweizer is a harmonically adventurous ballad player, a inventive explorer of under-the-lid strings sounds and percussive effects, and she plays Jimmy Giuffre's iconic cool-jazz groover The Train and the River with a freewheeling relish.
Irène Schweizer: To Whom It May Concern – review
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Bridge is sung sonorously but very low-key and just when you think it is going to fade away like the dying light, the band, a percussive juggernaut, bounces dramatically into Graceland.
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The harm of percussive ground pressure, produced reason, conditions and protective measures are introduced.
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Movement is slowed with stops at percussive upbeats.
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Grungy guitars collided with a full-on rhythmic attack, as the trio bashed upon custom-made percussive devices at centre stage.
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They are grand, searching performances, but at times overemphatic and disconcertingly percussive.
Times, Sunday Times
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I love all the little melodies and counter-melodies happening in the music - a synth line going up, percussive guitar melody moving down, bass dipping in and out like a bobber on a fishing line when an unseen pike is testing the bait.
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They have created a rhythmic melange of percussive sounds from Brazilian, African and Indian sources.
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But the masterstroke was the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale," in a cool percussive arrangement that barreled along like a steam train.
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Firstly, the musical accompaniment to Sidia's production included flutes, percussive instruments and a keyboard.
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His primary instruments are the contrabass, voice, piano, electronics, and various percussive devices.
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Instrumental support, which mostly doubles the vocal lines, is provided by bamboo flutes, two-stringed viols, lutes, dulcimer, and panpipes, gently seasoned by percussive punctuation.
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'Minimal Dub' on the flip offers a wider percussive palette with clocking congas synched with scissoring hi-hats but the crucial source of energy is that controlled yet ferocious subbass twist, containing all the evil potential of
Boomkat: Just arrived
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One of the other sets we went for a heavily percussive piece, Brian and I did a call&response skronk kind of conversation.
Partypartymaskandcar
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Rap comes out of the story telling and braggadocio of the blues, the cadences of gospel preachers and comedians, the percussive improvisations of jazz drummers and tap dancers.
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His lines are percussive, martial, thorough in their report; his enjambments work like arguments against the will of the sentences.
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And some dustbin lids to use as symbols for the mad percussive effects.
WorldCon Schedule
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This multimedia journey across Planet Hip-Hop is described as a percussive call-and-response with turntablist DJ Excess and multi-instrumentalist Ajayi Jackson, accompanied by video by Eli Jacobs Fantauzzi.
LAist
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The dancer wears special shoes with metal cleats so that when the toe or heel is tapped on the floor it makes a distinctive percussive sound.
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For nearly four decades his revolutionary percussive sound fuelled perhaps the world's greatest rock band.
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Chiefly, this isn't a percussive rave with ornamental sound effects; it's a remarkably rich tonal atmosphere with subtle rhythmic propulsion.
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boomy", percussive sound that I've never heard in a $500 mandolin.
Mandolin Cafe News
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It's a very odd, percussive work, which sounds very modern despite being written in 1932.
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Her seminal musical works use what are called extended vocal techniques, such as overtone and throat singing, yodeling, keening, percussive sounds, and micro-tonality.
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The dozen tracks on Greyscale range from the kind of glitchy percussives that sound like the dance music of subhumans “The Information” to nuanced washes of slow, throbbing tones.
Disquiet » Rose-Colored Headphones
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She begins her study with sliding the feet against the floor, slowly introducing us to a percussive sound that builds in rhythm and dynamic.
