Sentences with phrase «in a minor key»

Songs composed in a major key tend to sound warm and effervescent (think «We Can Work it Out» by the Beatles, released in 1965), whereas songs in a minor key can sound darker and more melancholic (think «Boulevard of Broken Dreams» by Green Day, released in 2005).

There's only one way to restore harmony — by making that discordant note the first note in a brand new melody, maybe now in a minor key rather than a major, but beautiful nevertheless.

During the single section of Lehár's score in a minor key, a solo dancer, alone on the stage like a nucleus in its immense cage of space, enacted the conversion of matter into energy.

Still, this is cheeky sitcom in a minor key, and fated to be a mere footnote on McAvoy's résumé.

From Wallace and Gromit's Oscar winning adventures to Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer music video, Aardman's work is immediately recognizable and enjoyable, even in a minor key effort like Shaun the Sheep Movie.

Perfectly Netfixable adventure in a minor key.

As «Lo and Behold» unfolds, he alternates hopeful and grim stories with others in a minor key that could be taken both ways at once.

But there are so many excellent performances that you're carried along: Lucas Hedges as her sweet first boyfriend, whose grandmother lives in Christine's dream house on the right side of the tracks (class and money are major themes, though always in a minor key); Timothée Chalamet (star of Call Me By Your Name) as her super-cool, careless second one (pictured above).

• A lullaby in a minor key tickles the nerves as a disembodied mechanical hand scissors open a cloth doll to pull out her innards.

Though it is gorgeously written and often cited as one of the great American novels, Fitzgerald's «Gatsby» is in fact very much a slender reed, a tragedy in a minor key.

This is almost a Ghost World-esque thriller in a minor key.

Whether in Buffalo or Cumberland, the cold wind groans, the houses reply in minor keys, the kerosene lamps cast a fitful glow, and some of the computer - generated effects are impressive — especially Edith's mother, whose specter is the color and consistency of crumbling carbon.

I would like to note that Jennifer Egan beat out a very impressive group of Finalists: Freedom, Skippy Dies, To the End of the Land and Comedy in a Minor Key.

The battle theme is a little more bouncier than the FFIX battle theme, yet it is still in the minor key.

«Surf's Up,» after all, swelled to crescendo in a minor key, while Brian Wilson pigged out on Oreos.

The result — so clearly defined within Number 4 - 32 — embodies an almost musical dissonance, not unlike a song written in a minor key, which ravishes its listener by nature of its strange and beautiful melody.

This is sculpture in a minor key, but a key essential to the music of «Basuland.»

Various other photographs (1996 - 2007) show books, records, VHS tapes, and the rich interior of Daveyʼs apartment; in Helen Molesworthʼs words, «a body of work in a minor key, a series of images of things simultaneously in the world and at the edge of it.»

In a darker mood, there are the «western» sections of All the King's Men, where Jack Burden sings much the same song, but in a minor key, during and after his flight westward (on discovering Anne Stanton's affair with Willie Stark): he was «drowning in West,» he says.

Even more interesting, perhaps, is that our current favorites are more likely to be emotionally ambiguous (such as sad - sounding songs being fast or happy - sounding songs being slow — compare «Disturbia,» Rihanna's fast - paced dance song, which is in a minor key, to Alicia Keys» emotional ballad «No One,» which is in a major key but clocks in at a relatively slow 90 BPM).

Similarly, Shakira's «Hips Don't Lie» hit from 2006 is in minor key, but it relates the tension and fiery lust between two potential lovers.

Both are in minor keys and include similar melodic motifs, the paper reveals.

[Coppola] has the courage to play it in a minor key.

My music criteria is simple: if it's in a minor key, I probably don't like it - sounds too sad.

You're the «friendly» abstract painter — the «A» side of a great single; I'm the «B» side, in a minor key.»

The list just goes on and on: the EX487 even supports Amazon S3 for online server back - up, an automated media collection system that finds files across multiple computers and makes them available to everyone, and will even iron and fold your laundry while singing softly to itself in a minor key (not really).