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Recent Examples of orchestral
For the orchestral rock band Murder By Death, and its legion of fans, Saturday, Nov. 15 will no doubt be an emotional night.
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Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Those groups' ability to transpose the American songbook and European orchestral composition into lovestruck street-corner harmonies allowed gospel soul to supersede the popularity of blues while fusing culture and race into the juggernaut known as rock-and-roll.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The narrow soundstage is even more apparent on orchestral tracks, like the opening scene to John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary.
—Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 1 July 2025
The Argentine musician was among the first to apply a broad range of musical ideas to film and TV scores, from jazz and rock to more modern and complex techniques of orchestral writing.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 26 June 2025
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Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Those groups' ability to transpose the American songbook and European orchestral composition into lovestruck street-corner harmonies allowed gospel soul to supersede the popularity of blues while fusing culture and race into the juggernaut known as rock-and-roll.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The narrow soundstage is even more apparent on orchestral tracks, like the opening scene to John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary.
—Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 1 July 2025
The Argentine musician was among the first to apply a broad range of musical ideas to film and TV scores, from jazz and rock to more modern and complex techniques of orchestral writing.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestral
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Kepler’s harmonic law acts as a scale to weigh celestial bodies.—
Andrej Prša,
The Conversation,
23 July 2025
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As dark as the film can seem, it’s also filled with moments of harmonic bliss whenever the girls perform.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
7 July 2025
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At once absurd and unsettling, The Happening is a daring tonal experiment about humanity’s gentle extinction.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
29 July 2025
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As an alternative, Steele suggests a tonal, muted green hue, such as Green Trellis.—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 July 2025
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The rhythmic whooping grew louder in the air as search helicopters made their way for the missing.—
Sophia Leone,
FOXNews.com,
22 July 2025
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With a relationship dating to 1970, the tandem built a balanced, rhythmic symmetry that accommodated any type of flourish or alteration.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
20 July 2025
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Byrd is the word: Revel in the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, perhaps the greatest and certainly most influential of all the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that surely would have felt home to him, as a composer of sacred songs.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
17 July 2025
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The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.—
Jordan Michelman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 July 2025
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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.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.—
Giovanni Russonello,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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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.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
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Macy, who plays Arn Peeples, an explosives expert, finds lyrical beauty in an early 20th century America where the outside world is fast closing in on their traditional, pastoral way of life.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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Even the title phrase, which Francis immediately fell for, falls pretty squarely in line with classic country wordplay and lyrical imagery.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
21 July 2025
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
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Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 June 2022
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“Orchestral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchestral. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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