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Recent Examples of orchestral
Also Debuts Sinners doesn’t feature a typical orchestral score, like many films, but rather one built around blues music, which is appropriate for the story.
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Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 4 May 2025
Daniel Harding is one of the top orchestral conductors in the world.
—Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 2 May 2025
And the score by experimental group Son Lux is a welcome shift away from orchestral bombast into more nuanced territory.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025
The orchestral collective Wild Up performs Arthur Russell’s 1979 minimalist disco masterwork.
—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestral
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The major-sevenths, by stuffing four notes into the chords, offered greater harmonic options, and Sikes was determined to take advantage of them, encouraging Wayne to incorporate the dissonant notes into her high harmonies.—
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By using these recycled devices—including pulse oximeters, harmonic scalpels and EP catheters—health systems across the globe reduced CO2 emissions by 115,382,133 pounds last year.—
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One pair leans into deep, tonal shades of purple, burgundy and soft blue, while the other uses a high-contrast palette of black, purple and yellow.—
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Modern Minimalism With Abstract Stripes and a Chic Statement Pendant For those who usually gravitate toward solids, choose a dress in muted tones and a tonal print like this slip from Australian brand Sir.—
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Rooted in Japanese tradition, Shiatsu applies pressure along specific energy pathways to balance the body’s yin and yang, enhancing vitality; while Thai Massage uses slow, rhythmic movements and stretching to improve flexibility, leaving you feeling fully rejuvenated.—
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Her style leans toward country and Americana with a wide array of rhythmic influences.—
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In turn, her fiction felt lively and polyphonic.—
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The movie’s polyphonic introduction is also not sustained.—
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
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Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.—
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
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At one point, Pullman’s character hovers motionless in the cloudless sky above New York City—an arrestingly lyrical shot that conveys the quietness of dread.—
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Stewart has made an assured mess: a bleary, florid and sometimes lyrical film that could stand to be doused by a bucket of ice water.—
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
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Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.—
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“Orchestral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchestral. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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