| 单词 | five-finger |
| 例句 | Mr. Prutsman’s music cleverly combines evocations of five-finger exercises and Alberti bass figures with hazy harmonies, hints of mellow jazz, a two-step stride and a nod to Debussy. Music Review | Emanuel Ax and Dawn Upshaw: Saluting Chopin and Schumann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z In the first etude Debussy parodies Czerny’s five-finger exercises. Music Review: Finding Poetry in Schoenberg?s Hurdles 2010-08-29T23:13:00Z Cage spoke of five-finger exercises, and we heard his Suite for Toy Piano. San Francisco Symphony interprets John Cage, with great results 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z I thought of it as a bit of a five-finger exercise. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z Puro also shows her invention in her long titles: “How to Arrest Time by Crushing Rust to Powder”; “elegy with five-finger discount on smallpox blanket.” In Recent Poetry Collections, Weapons Made of Words 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Lasting only a few seconds, they often lie completely within a five-finger span so that the performer doesn't have to move her or his hands up and down the keyboard. Finding the sweet spot: writing for amateur pianists 2012-06-08T14:29:09Z But Book I begins with Debussy’s playful parody of a beginning student’s five-finger exercise. Music Review: Nicolas Hodges, Pianist, at Zankel Hall 2013-01-23T21:55:16Z Other hotels are turning the five-finger discount into a charitable opportunity. Perspective | Put down that lamp! What you can — and can’t — take from your hotel room. 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z But a handful of folks attend show houses, private home tours or real estate open houses for the five-finger discount: to steal something, usually items small enough to slip into a purse or a pocket. How show houses keep designing visitors on the straight and narrow 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z They call it a four- or five-finger bag. Looking back at the absolutely unexpected and totally wild origins of 420 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z It snared pucks more easily than the goalies’ customary glove, a regular five-finger hockey model with a small amount of padding, and goalies around the league were soon copying his creation. Emile Francis Dies at 95; Rebuilt N.H.L.’s Rangers as Coach and G.M. 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Higher insurance rates inevitably will be passed along to customers in the form of higher retail prices, which means, going forward, higher out-of-pocket costs for sneakers, clothing and other goodies obtained without a five-finger discount. Column: Stores may be insured for looting. But guess who pays in the end (hint: you) 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z An ominous pop-pop-pop punctures the eerie silence at the start of “The Standoff at Sparrow Creek,” an efficient, mechanical five-finger exercise written and directed by Henry Dunham. Review: A mass shooting provokes a minimalist whodunit in 'The Standoff at Sparrow Creek' 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z What was "Ulysses" but Joyce working five-finger changes on the novel after a century of Dickens stories? The next Great American Novel will be a video game 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Some of his short stories are marvellous but many read like five-finger exercises, often aiming at a humorousness that hasn’t aged well. Arthur C Clarke at 100: still the king of science fiction 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z One morning this spring, Page emerged in workout shorts and five-finger running shoes, with compression sleeves over his knees and calves. The Rise of Beefcake Yoga 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The extra security is particularly unwelcome for delinquent mall rats, who prefer the five-finger discount. Olympics Draws New Breed of Mall Rat 2012-08-10T13:39:35Z In comparison with the contracted five-finger positions of the classical technic, its broken chords and arpeggios, Liszt's technic had the advantage of a fuller, freer flow, of greater fulness of tone and increased brilliancy. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z The canary-colored five-finger vine would lace itself over the world, given but half an opportunity. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z We invited the priest in and poured him out a stiff five-finger peg of neat Scotch whisky. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z Little by little, a five-finger vine flung whole chains of bloom over stumps, logs and bushes, a beautiful, blood-red passion flower, whose buds looked like strings of tiny Chinese lanterns. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Out over the gardens came the sound of some one playing five-finger exercises on the piano. Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology 2011-09-20T02:00:14.543Z I see nothing for you but a dreary prospect of early rising, and the pursuit of five-finger exercises. The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life 2011-08-24T02:00:19.813Z Here the “wild morning-glory,” the tiny fields convolvulus, hides perilously in the mowing; white clover and yellow five-finger are spread; the grassflower holds up its single jewel. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Drill for the soldier takes the place of the five-finger exercises for the musician. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z She found her practising five-finger exercises drearily in one of the music-rooms. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z "Hundred!" he called after the first half-minute, and "hundred!" in quarter of a minute more, while Ives raised a hand each time and played five-finger exercises with the other hand upon his thigh. The Shadow of a Man At any rate, keep your eyes open and your knife ready to the five-finger grip. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The nymph has been at some pains to train the five-finger ivy and nightshade heavily all about, and the great brakes carpet the path her gleaming feet must tread at sunrise. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z It ran up and down about six octaves, to the tune of a five-finger exercise. Cupid's Middleman The music-room resounded with five-finger improvisations and with vocalists who had little but their voices left. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards I put twelve thousand dollars into it, and I can’t even play five-finger exercises on it.” Carmen Ariza He may have an intuition of this, for he says quietly, "Now play me a scale and a five-finger exercise." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 The flower beds were choaked with the low running bramble and tangling five-finger; tall, rank rushes, mullens and daisies, had usurped the empire of the kitchen garden. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father With it I can play the most difficult work ever written as easily as I can a five-finger exercise. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players You find people practising mental scales and five-finger exercises at every party you go to. The Green Carnation The moon-faced clock on the opposite wall ticked monotonously and Chicken Little’s small fingers thumped stiffly at the five-finger exercises while she painfully counted aloud, partly to get the time and partly for company. Chicken Little Jane But the growth of the artistic soul is not accomplished through the fingers, and indeed it is not infrequently strangled at birth by five-finger exercises. Spirit and Music Dragging about in all weathers, to earn a few shillings for hearing wretched brats strumming five-finger exercises. Betty Trevor She tried again, however, and this time succeeded in running a five-finger exercise once up and once down. Terry Or, She ought to have been a Boy They looked for mere five-finger exercises in Chopin's études, and finding at the same time an abundance of musical ideas, they were surprised. Chopin and Other Musical Essays He was returning from a practice of five-finger exercise on Gentle Annie, busy with his thoughts and the balance of the pail, when a shout brought his gaze to the road. Sundown Slim "A love of music is worth any amount of five-finger exercises, and the capacity to enjoy a Symphony is beyond all examination certificates." Spirit and Music My best is like a five-finger exercise compared with the foolishest thing she ripples off. The Turtles of Tasman "The hand is formed on the keys in its five-finger position, with arched knuckles." Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers To have the five-finger exercises of his irresistibility played on one. Balloons What she played I shall never know, but it seemed to me to be a five-finger exercise. Reveries of a Schoolmaster The bell rang, and simultaneously she began to play a five-finger exercise. The Pretty Lady And as soon as I had closed the door the first notes would resound, slow and solemn, of the five-finger exercises with which he invariably commenced his studies. Sacred and Profane Love To accomplish this I began with the most elementary exercises in five-finger position, using one finger at a time. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers I do my little five-finger exercises all by myself and nobody knows but I am playing Beethoven. The Gray Dawn But the daughter went right on with the five-finger exercise as if nothing else were happening. Reveries of a Schoolmaster Then she pulled herself together with an effort, dried her tears hurriedly, and began her five-finger exercises, tum, tum, tum, with the little finger, all the other fingers pinned resolutely down upon the keys. The Golden Calf His five-finger exercises were lovely patterns of sound woven with exact and awful deliberation. Sacred and Profane Love At first simple five-finger forms are used; when the hand has become accustomed to this tonic, some of the Czerny Op. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers This long, rambling romance, in ten sections, is as devoid of flavour as a five-finger exercise. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century But because time dragged, Georgina went to her scales and five-finger exercises as usual. Georgina of the Rainbows From the front parlour came the lifeless tum-tumming of the piano, and Mr. Tipping's voice gruffly counting time to the cheerless five-finger exercises of a very evident beginner. Young Lives It was a mournful instrument, reduced to discordant wheeziness by five-finger exercises, but the touch of the Swiss could still evoke from it some kind of harmony. The Unclassed From the next room came the fitful, awkward sounds of a five-finger exercise from Ray. Jonah For my own part, I was very tolerant; anything that could by the largest interpretation be called music, I welcomed and was thankful; for even “five-finger exercises” I found, at moments, better than nothing. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft Saxon drew Billy's eyes to a mossy bank of five-finger ferns. The Valley of the Moon |
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