Examples of sung

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Instrumental music had sung, danced, drawn pictures and characters (22); now it 'gestured' in direct metaphorical strokes.
Involuntarily, children may learn songs sung by the music therapist or visiting musicians, and they can improve their rhythmic skills by practising during improvisational sessions.
The course was planned in units, six to a term, each of which started with a song to be sung.
Notation was needed simply as an aide-memoire, to remind choirmasters of the chants to be sung by giving a rough outline of the melody.
She plays the instruments while continuing to put words to her feelings, now also becoming half-sung and half-spoken.
The mini-musicals are sung by the whole group.
Traditional analysis divides lyric into melic (sung) and non-melic, and we will use that division here for expository purposes.
In this transcription, the words in square brackets are sung only in the second take.
Six others have verses sung only to a psalm tone, and one omits its verses entirely.
The music is sung exactly in the order of the manuscript.
The end thus plays with two motifs: visibility and invisibility, what is and is not represented, what is and is not sung.
The listener sang through him, as it were, his passions sung back to him through another mouth.
He had sung in a film, essentially playing himself, in the mid-1990s.
He designed the song to be sung back to him.
We had always planned it as entirely opera, to be sung in verse.
I find this remark titillating, since this last sung pitch stands for the unachievable, loss, jouissance.
The first tone in figure 4 is sung with vibrato.
The functional antecedent of this written genre was the oral epic, composed to be either sung or recited.
To understand the impact of the education session, we sought to find out which and how often lullabies were sung.
Later, the words are sung, spoken and whispered.
The very low, ghostly, sung 'verschwiegen' was quite out of my range then.
The gruff vocals are treated with a lot of reverb and brief phrases are spat out rather than sung.
The chants are sung from an unidentified local variant edition.
If neither letter notation nor x's occur, the portion of the formula at the top of the column is sung exactly as given.
An interesting chant occurs in three different versions, sung at the beginning, middle and end of the programme.
The chants are sung by soloists of the polyphonic choir.
The added saxophone improvisations rule the disc out of court, but this remains a beautifully sung, if flawed, disc.
Matins were sung in the choir, the priests giving the responses lower down in the stalls.
Poets may well be ' ' easier to get along with,' ' but sung verse is louder, and singers have more experience of projecting their voice.
As noted above, artfully sung exchanges (common among other southwestern peoples) played a key role in courtship and other rituals.
The first two are sung to the letter names of the notes but the remainder return to religious and moralistic texts.
Narrative songs are sung by a singer imitating different characters in a story, accompanied by one or more instruments.
One might suppose that turba choruses would be more powerful when sung by a relatively large chorus.
He stops to listen to her only after she has sung seven lines of recitative.
In the alleluia, the verse ends with a phrase sung by the chorus.
They are different, yet still beautiful, and can be sung by the many who do not understand their underlying mathematical justification.
They are sung many times all over the city.
The performance renders the chant as it might have been sung at that time, notably using fauxbourdon for the invitatory.
To enhance the ceremonial still further, the gradual and alleluia were now to be sung in organum in two, three or four voices.
Selected quotations were arranged to occur, either sung or spoken, at their appropriate locations.
In the final scene, the song sung by the three girls, forty-eight lines long, is omitted.
A piece of music can be either sung or played by an instrument, or both.
Still, these are well sung and recorded in a reverberant church.
In this recording the monophonic versions of the polyphonic pieces are sung as they occur in the manuscript.
According to the verbal canon, the tenor is sung in eight different combinations of modus and tempus, with additional rests inserted in some tenor statements.
Furthermore, are they the same as those sung in preceding times for which no written transmission survives?
The singing of both schola and soloists is uniformly lovely, alternating between men and women of the community (only five chants are sung in octaves).
Among money dedicated to the musical life of the abbey was an endowment for an anthem to be sung every day at morning prayer.
As on the earlier disc, a gospel is sung divided among three voices.
Were the pieces sung from manuscripts or from memory?
Were they to have been sung as plainchant, or freely composed?
Have diverse melodies developed convergently into one; have they been sung together?
Again the three offertories are sung with all their verses.
They were sung by just one voice or by several in unison.
Then someone noticed that the two could be sung simultaneously, making up a six-voice whole.
Once a song has been deemed pleasant in performance, one can count on the fact that soon it will be sung by the entire public.
The lesson ended with round being sung again, this time in three parts over the ostinato.
After this, scales could be sung to lah or ah.
They were sung to numbers (to reinforce the intervals), to 'la', to solfa syllables and to simple religious texts.
Exercises included at the conclusion illustrated each of these concepts and could be sung.
The haute-contre line was sung by high tenors, rather than female altos or countertenors.
In consequence, this opera is most clear about the existence of what cannot be said, sung or allowed on the stage.
The idea of wholly sung drama had to be rendered plausible.
Perhaps because of the great degree of artifice built into a genre in which speech is sung, the sceptical challenge, paradoxically, could do less damage.
In fact, hearing this well-known duet sung by secondary characters would probably have confused them.
Where are the spoken voices, the sung voices, the emanating voices that can be heard?
Once sung it is as if 'writ on water', as if it had never been.
They called the psalm between the lessons a 'reading' even when it was unambiguously sung.
Thus composed, each choir has independent music which could be sung separately without offending the ear.
Typically, the whole performance is evaluated: the presentation, as well as the music being played or sung.
Confined for the most part to simple musical learning, they are unable to distinguish what must be declaimed from what is to be sung.
Printed rubrics from the libretto are in italics; sung text is in inverted commas.
Many biblical passages are used in sung liturgy as well as in spoken worship.
The auditory dimension is further subdivided into a dichotomy between spoken and sung text.
By shedding excess and approaching sung dialogue as if it were speech, singers were to be singing actors - the imperative of a musical dramatic art.
The saint intones a church theme that, in proper liturgical usage, could well have been sung on the saint's own feast day.
On stage, the narrator and his or her listeners perceive the sung narrative as a fiction irrelevant to the unfolding of the drama.
What is sung is neither representational nor a process tied to cognition as we generally understand it, but a tangible physical effect.
After all, is this not the same chorus that had earlier sung the new royal couple's praises?
Is there a distinction between all-sung opera and 'semi-opera'?
Analysis of the contents of sung text offers one way of making sense of music.
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