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- adjective music Without
pitch .
Etymologies
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The sound contains a variety of both pitched and unpitched sounds that work to blur the line between musical elements and sound effects.
Archive 2009-05-01 Ben Abraham 2009
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The sound contains a variety of both pitched and unpitched sounds that work to blur the line between musical elements and sound effects.
Stay a while and listen Ben Abraham 2009
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Partly, it's Carter's way of maintaining a certain amount of sonic energy while still providing orchestrational space for the tricky-to-balance solo cello timbre; the soloist has the luxury of playing his thorny part in isolation, or against sparse (or, in the striking Giocoso, unpitched) accompaniment, while the orchestral response is concentrated into singular, startlingly violent accents.
Magna Carter (6): This Is Your Life Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Partly, it's Carter's way of maintaining a certain amount of sonic energy while still providing orchestrational space for the tricky-to-balance solo cello timbre; the soloist has the luxury of playing his thorny part in isolation, or against sparse (or, in the striking Giocoso, unpitched) accompaniment, while the orchestral response is concentrated into singular, startlingly violent accents.
Archive 2008-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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This method was not always successful, however, on account of the softening of the unpitched felt on long-continued exposure to the water.
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All joints were lapped at least 1 ft., and, where work was suspended for a time and a bevel lap could not be made, the edges of the felt were left unpitched for 1 ft. and the newer work was interlaced with the old.
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In exhaustion the camp lay resting, tents unpitched, the animals nosing over the grass.
The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900
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Abaca is much stronger than hemp and is used white and unpitched.
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OTR: Of course we live in post-modern times now, and my conviction has been for a long time that it's impossible to find anything completely new in art music, because since we have taken on board all kinds of unpitched/synthetic/whatever noises, nothing we write sounds completely new.
Opera Today querflote@gmail.com 2010
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OTR: Of course we live in post-modern times now, and my conviction has been for a long time that it's impossible to find anything completely new in art music, because since we have taken on board all kinds of unpitched/synthetic/whatever noises, nothing we write sounds completely new.
Opera Today querflote@gmail.com 2010
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