Sentences with phrase «of vibrato»

A common theme is that for all its impassioned intentions, the film is an exhausting 157 minutes of vibrato and pathos and extreme close - ups on its weepy stars.

In addition, trained singers relax and contract muscles within the larynx in order to produce the resonant waver of vibrato.

Not exact matches

There are as many questions as answers, Rietz notes, including the mystery of exactly how a singer controls the tiny oscillations in pitch that produce vibrato.

They found that they were able to play it with little practice, triggering incorrect vibrato only 9 per cent of the time.

The researchers also found that mammals modulate the vibrato in these calls over greater frequency extents when the number of harmonic overtones per formant is low, suggesting that it's used as a mechanism to improve formant perception in calls with low spectral density.

Those experiments showed that vibrato significantly improved the ability of a listener to detect formant patterns.

All of them produce calls with rapid, vibrato - like fundamental frequency modulation — commonly known as bleats or trills.

«We were very excited to find that distantly related mammal species appear to produce calls with vibrato - like pitch modulation in order to improve the perception of important information encoded by formants,» Charlton says.

As Cosette, Seyfried trills with a lovely vibrato, but she's saddled with one of the more underwritten characters.

April 11, 2012 • The Fiona Apple on stage at Stubb's for NPR Music's showcase at the SXSW music festival was more commanding than enigmatic, conveying vulnerability in her vibrato but otherwise full of confidence.

Their respective parents (Hugh Jackman and Maria Bello, Terrence Howard and Viola Davis) search for them with escalating alarm, but it is clear — both from the creepy camper that had been parked on street and from the menacing vibrato of the soundtrack — that Something Horrible Has Happened.

With a talking raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper and a talking tree courtesy of Vin Diesel's gravely vibrato, this is surely the most risky endeavor Marvel has taken in quite some time and, hopefully, will be a welcome break from the monotony of their core Avengers films.

The Control Stick as well as the Z and R Buttons can be used to change the pitch of the notes, with the exception of tilting the Control Stick left or right, which causes Link to use vibrato on the Ocarina, which has no specific usage in - game.

The lines have the continuous effect of notes of music, flowing from one to the next with impressive vibrato, rather than of hard lines of text.

Reminiscent of the heavy vibrato guitar riffs and odd time signatures produced by the guitarist Buzz Osborne from the hard - core punk / drone metal band The Melvins.

Delivered with absurdity, affection, and feminist vibrato, Dufresne presents figurative articulations that feverously emerge out of the paint.

She hummed old hymns with a fancy vibrato while tidying up her home, counted her blessings all day long, stocked her pantry early in the fall to provide for her family during the long cold winter, quilted by firelight, cherished her Bible which was well - worn and underlined, was nicknamed «Honeybelle» by her groom of 62 years.