There's a drowsy in-between period when I can hear the last few strains of her music although she's lost in the leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My heart pounded in time with the music as I cleared the unblemished left half of the maze. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You know, Bea has only ever wanted to play music,” he starts. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the United States, music education developed around a method of instruction, the Normal Music Course, the remnants of which are adhered to even today in music classrooms. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This was music to Flamsteed’s ears, since it confirmed that modern observing techniques could improve on existing stellar catalogues. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The change was good for me and I gave up weed and drinking for the discipline of music with the help of the school’s outstanding music teacher, a black man named C. Lawler Rogers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we approached, we heard radio music and looked to see where it came from. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sirens and loud music coming from outside. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Just to feel what it’s like to be close to the music and swinging. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had devoted thirty years’ spare time to his church, and his church had recently rewarded him with a trip to a Methodist music camp in South Carolina. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The set of pitches, or notes, that are used, and their relationships to each other, makes a big impact on how the music sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

If you look at some of the Internet servers that store songs, you can sometimes find his music in the alternative section and sometimes in the electronica section and sometimes in the unclassified section. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Anna smiled at all the lights, listening to the music from the drinking houses, the pianos, the phonographs, watching people, arm in arm, striding by in the crowded streets. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had the liquor, the chicken, the music, and each other, and had no need to pretend to be what we were not. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

It also helps to remember, however, that music theory is a bit like grammar. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Matthew’s guitar screeched wrong chord after wrong chord as he practiced along with the music. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There is, however, a clear difference in what happens in our brains when we listen to music and when we make music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Her voice is barely audible over the music. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

After the music stops and people start gathering the leftovers, I see tía Milagros talking to my parents. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That was the only time I got to listen to the good music— when it was just the two of us, cruising. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’d have enough music to entertain them while they drove fourteen or fifteen miles home and unharnessed in the dark and fed the stock and milked. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we step out of the elevator, the music suddenly turns deafening, the beat shaking my body through the floor. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is one of the main fields of study for those who are interested in studying music theory at a more advanced level. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Boy, is this stuff ever God’s music,” he called tauntingly across to Joe and Nancy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is here that we have ideas and inspirations, here that we read and write, here that we do mathematics and compose music. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are they not engaging with the music or the questions? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Often, it seemed, the pressure coincided with their “gramophone evenings,” and some of the more superstitious members of the crew began to think the music caused the pressure. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Our favorite program, “The Day Breaker’s Club,” played the traditional music of rural Puerto Rico and gave information about crops, husbandry, and the weather. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Sounds good,” I answered, and then closed my eyes again and listened to the music. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were no flashing neon signs in Tijuana by day, but the music still blared from the shops. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

All they have is that loud, disgusting rap music. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music floated out of the house like a bird on a breeze. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I put on my headphones but keep the music off as I join the crowds headed out of school. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The music and the dancing became mournful as a succession of funereal dances conveyed the murderous Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I struck the beginning chord of Savien’s verse and I heard a piercing sound that pulled me out of the music like a fish dragged from deep water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were promised that they would learn to sing in a month or become music teachers themselves in three months. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music died away in a nervous stammering of drums. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My father stood next to her and they sort of communicated with music. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was often chartered for special moonlight cruises, during which an elaborate loudspeaker system piped live music from the observation room throughout the ship. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mason felt that the music, including the work of composers such as Billings, was “rude and crude.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He closes his eyes for a moment like he’s listening to distant music. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But there was music—an inmate was playing a tape loudly from his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been sitting on his birthday money for a month, waiting for Fiona to take us on the train into the city, to Newbury Comics, to browse through music, comic books, and assorted thingamajigs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We watch music videos on his laptop while we wait. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Brent Chisholm strode off the bus looking like he’d stepped straight out of a country music video, pearl snaps and all. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I leave Darius on the sidewalk and make my way into the brownstone, where the smell of alcohol smacks me in the face and the music is really good. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

So if you want to learn music theory, it would be a good idea to spend some time getting comfortable with the concepts below and practicing identifying intervals. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“But, if we want music we can always send for a few birds. No, all things considered, it would be a nuisance, keeping it in tune and so on.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’s in trouble, thought Fred, hearing his favorite theme music in his head. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The music fades in, right on cue—enchanting the crowd—and then the sparkling Emerald Gates open, welcoming humanity back to the Happiest Place on Earth. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She wanted to tell Sherm about the music and how she didn’t hear it yet. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Organ music drifted upstairs—which meant that Mrs. Powell, Preacher Powell’s wife, had arrived. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m also obsessed with the music from the movies.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was arguably more like a novelist than a composer in this respect, people falling for his music as they would a newly discovered secret passion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I found a music station and turned the radio up loud to drown out my thinking. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Schools, however, provide formal music education, which is just one of the sources of a child’s musical heritage. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Right, well, in the other hall, by where the smoking area is, I asked Smitty to put the Egyptian music.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just cranked up the music like I wasn't even there. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the music, this white space is represented by silence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It lingered at the edges of art music, popping up one moment in Chopin, or another in Debussy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The music was like a memory of family, of friendship and warm belonging. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the modern music in which convergence is most active has thrived in a relatively prosperous, educated milieu, dominated by the United States and Europe, where something approaching a cultural consensus exists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When we listen to the music of Bach, or Gershwin, or Sting, or Alicia Keys, we are being taken on a journey of chords, a ‘progression’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But of all of music’s contributions to the human condition, its ability to create social cohesion and communicate emotion has ensured its longevity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He played his pipes frantically, and his music sent another power line pole whacking against Talos’s thigh. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The royal ducklings fell in behind them as they made their way across the yard, marching to the music of the bells on the fool’s hat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

You can bet she didn’t want me singing it in front of my music class. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Musicians must also respond immediately to their own sound through acute music listening ability, often coordinating with other musicians around them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She was too tired for music, she couldn’t play cards alone, and—well, billiards seemed to be the only plausible activity. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But I kept knocking, until finally the music stopped, and the door jerked open, and it looked for a moment like my sister was going to take my head off. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

As they danced in the circle and music played, Spurge lifted the metal box hanging around his neck so he could expose the gemstone to the sun. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Axel turns toward the music room door, tilts his head a little. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And then, like a gust of wind, the music picks us up and we are flying in hang gliders like birds over the mountains, swooping in valleys and rising over peaks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping is forbidden among human beans?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fiddled with the dial a moment, landing on some mariachi music that was as equally redneck and sappy in its own way as were the cowboy songs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, we played not only the music of the moment, but music of the past, which I grew to love, though it was unfashionable. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ding-dong was barely there against the pulse of music and the rush of blood in my ears. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He was sort of bobbing his head, like he was hearing music inside it. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Lazlo’s voice was music—the most beautiful smoky music—when he caught Sarai up in his arms, and said, “I want to catch it in a jar and put it away with the fireflies.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Doc saw Mack’s broken mouth through the music, the music that was in his head and in the air. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled Wayne Parr along to the bandstand and demanded “regular music.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

For example, the above questions cover music theory, analysis, repertoire, and the uses and function of music in culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music quickened; faster beat the feet, faster, faster fell the rhythmic hands. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the parade music began, I hardly talked and no one seemed to notice. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Once again she listened to this opening part of the music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“How do you like the music I picked for our ride downtown?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, away from the loud music, Pong could hear the orbs buzzing more distinctly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The completed National Core Arts Standards include dance, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The more complicated adventures undertaken by composers with notation, orchestras, opera singers, conductors, musicological analysis and the rest are still vital parts of music’s main body, but they are not in truth its central purpose. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Only if you turn off that horrible music.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even though the variations between these different "half steps" are small, they strongly affect the sound of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In order to help us perceive a character’s feelings or motivations, Wagner needed tools at his fingertips to be able to enrich and layer the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What the news didn't show was that we were a passionate people who loved art and music and poetry. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now, with the music off, there’s just wind, and rustling brush. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His first Gymnopedie of 1888, as well as sounding like a long, hot afternoon in the Midi after a liquid lunch, can be seen as a deliberate attempt to debunk pomposity and de-clutter music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And there was my grandfather, adding his low baritone in sad, sweet harmony to the music, his long beard glinting in the firelight. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I even get to perform a little chamber music. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The Basongye of Zaire have a broad conception of what music is, but no corresponding term. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Both these epoch-changing events were to have huge implications for the dissemination and transformation of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The music got louder, then faded away completely. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I listened to the music while flipping through the paintings. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He blew into it, his red cheeks filling it with breath and spittle, creating screeching noises, nothing approximating music. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The fifth grade had music right after recess. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Cello music swelled out from the house, rising higher and higher until it lifted off the earth, sailing toward Venus. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You play your music for me and Winn-Dixie and Sweetie Pie,” I said. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The art music of other cultures is also often called classical; for example, people speak of the classical music of India. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

My work account was rigged so that I couldn’t browse outside websites, but I’d hacked my visor to allow me to listen to music or stream movies off my hard drive while I took calls. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

If we were all genetically programmed to play the piano deftly from birth, we might never learn to understand music. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clapping is even louder than the music—I clamp my legs around my instrument so that I can cover my ears. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Texture is one of the basic elements of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The night had gone cold and steamy, a low fog sliding down from the mountains, and out in the dark there was music playing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even having to acknowledge that debt could not diminish my delight in our hour of music. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the music stops, and Keenan lets go of me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, mama, but you can—and will,” pronounced the haughty voice of Blanche, as she turned round on the piano-stool; where till now she had sat silent, apparently examining sundry sheets of music. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tabla music fills the studio, and my spirits rise with the beat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was just getting to the part where the bandit leader robbed the town bank and was squaring off for a shoot-out with the hero when the music on the radio stopped midsong. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course I have had to use both sides and write over the music, but I wrote very lightly in pencil between the notes, because someone may want to play it again someday. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to. I want to buy him something. What kind of music does he like?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The exact interpretation of each dynamic marking in a piece of music depends on: Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

People are passing by on the street, and they glance at Antonio and his boom box, thinking he’s just some kid blasting music. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell them that Rinehart was a fraud, but now there came a shout from inside the church and I heard a burst of music. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some music traditions even use an extremely precise version of wide tuning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Desdemona watched them spinning cocoons, moving their heads as though to music. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And then in the instant before he sat, Malcolm saw the face of Miss Davis, the music teacher, because it caught the light, and it did that because her cheeks were wet with tears. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We need some clothes-trying-on-montage music—‘Let’s Hear It for the Boy’ or something. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Churchill liked to play martial music while he prepared speeches, the better to kindle that vital emotion in himself that he hoped to communicate to the crowd. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But the growing commercial confidence of Broadway and Hollywood musicals and of their songwriters blossomed at a time when classical music was struggling to find a sense of purpose beyond mere experimentation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The words be- come an undercurrent in my life, like music that sticks in your head, a constant background to every thought. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time to chow down and see what the good commander brought along for music. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much she didn’t know about how to write music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly for a few minutes, listening to the snap of the fire and the music from the deck and the sounds coming from the bench couple, who were really going at it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

And they were so beautiful, those little flames, dancing in that still, silent church, dancing like they could hear music. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I find some dramatic music, including the song “We Know the Way” from Disney’s Moana. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Music does not have to have harmony, however, and some music doesn't even have melody. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Muffled sounds of angry music seeped out from his earphones. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Caroline,” I said, so anxious to change the subject I was even willing to speak of my sister’s good fortune, “Caroline is at a music school in New York City.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure it was the moon that sighed, but I could hear something, a wisp of music, a whisper of song. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

What kind of old lady plays rock music after midnight? Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The Dalcroze approach is based on eurhythmics, which teaches rhythm, structure, and musical expression through music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Jethro nodded and sat quietly staring into the fire for a long time, listening to the music of the strings until his eyes grew heavy and his shoulders began to droop. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, we would talk about what music we liked and then it became all things Hudson. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When the heavy, thumping music comes back, Noodle and Brick resume their argument about the gun. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He was an evil man, but the music would have broken your heart.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The band was doing their next favorite thing to playing music, they were teasing each other and talking about Herman E. Calloway behind his back. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

If he had written operas rather than church music, it might have been a different story. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The modern population of the world now hears all music through the filter - some would say imperfection - of Equal Temperament. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I've actually heard of him, but I had never heard his music, so I downloaded "Waltz #2." Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“What about something with music?” one of them said enthusiastically. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Men, women, people not much older than me, writhed along with the goofy music. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can see right away that they are not the regular kind for phone calls or music. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Their buying power fuels the booming market for Christian books, music, and films. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He stops playing his music loud and slamming doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They were somewhere near Conover when she turned up the music and sang loudly, then looked to see if Toby was laughing, a dash of embarrassment in her eyes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The other was to alter the course of music history dramatically. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But he hardly played music after he lost his job. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Students can learn to feel, hear, and perform the multi-part music from a very early age, and become progressively more advanced as they grow. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, you may enjoy seeing the music room anyway,” said Mr. Tushman. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sound of music floated through the air as an ice cream truck came around the corner. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Birdsong has been so much analyzed for its content of business communication that there seems little time left for music, but it is there. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music of the pearl was triumphant in Kino’s head, and the quiet melody of the family underlay it, and they wove themselves into the soft padding of sandaled feet in the dust. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was really looking forward to being in their music department. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sam is trying to get her to sing along to the holiday music playing from the speakers, but her mood won’t budge. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He pushes a button on the steering wheel, and the music gets louder. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A crimson bird the size of a swan had appeared, piping its weird music to the vaulted ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The list of favorite music and favorite books is obscenely long, and I can only get through the A's of the music list before giving up. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The silence was easy; he mainly just played some new music he’d downloaded. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Art music is a catch-all term for any music that is enjoyed by a smaller crowd. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We turn the music off, and suddenly we are back to being Franny and Suzy, just regular kids instead of rock stars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, if we was different, you know, been born with money...It’s just...making good art and music ain’t really expected of us. That type of work is unexpected.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At the Pacific Rim Championships in April 2016, I debuted a brand-new, upgraded floor routine set to fast, upbeat samba music that I thought would go over well with the crowd in Rio. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Even the types of music that are considered popular can change quickly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The strong soldiers lifted the horse in a wooden tub, while it danced to the stone drums and flute music. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again, their key signatures will look very different, but music in D sharp will not be any higher or lower than music in E flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It could be about a new music video or a shopping trip to the mall ... or it could be about me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Balloons, face paint, clowns, barbecue, games, and music. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wandered over to the laptop that was supplying the music to the stereo. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He’d signed me up for two music classes and a course on religion, all of which he said would be easy for me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There are no fireworks out here, no music, no confetti. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

How does some music, such as rap, challenge our original notions of speech and music by integrating speech as part of the music? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But I soon saw she was playing music to go along with what she was saying, like at a picture show. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No music had ever sounded so sweet to their ears. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In the dark he made up rhymes and sang songs, and one of the reasons she hated his new American music was that he sang it exclusively to himself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I hated her at music time for the wheezes that came out of her plastic flute. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music of his voice lowered in apology. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she was by herself in this inside room the music she had heard that night after the party would come back to her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people’s educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We left the camp without music but in step. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

How you could play chamber music outdoors Chester didn’t understand—but it was New York and anything could happen. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is more or less how all choral music is laid out to this day: one line of music for each singing part, running alongside each other on the page. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There were weather reports and commercials for soybean seed and lots of music. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The main purpose of the course, however, is to explore basic music theory so thoroughly that the interested student will then be able to easily pick up whatever further theory is wanted. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Tell me,” he said, turning to me, “how did you get this foreign music?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One of my favorite programs features singers performing music. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was always time, after the battle ended but while the music was still going strong, when people from the crowd would form cyphers—impromptu breaking circles—and blow your mind. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was a giggle at first that soon erupted into legitimate, unconscious laughter that spilled through the house and up the stairs like an endangered music. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the book, Scarlett was looking forward to going to a big barbecue where there was going to be music and food. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then at last the opening music came again, with all the different instruments bunched together for each note like a hard, tight fist that socked at her heart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As soon as the door was closed, Annie turned up her music and spun the tires until they were back on the road. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d play the new music at parties and people would stand around going, “What is this? How do you dance to it?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Faint piano music filled the space from the accompanist playing for a different class down the hall. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It described the music as ‘fidgety, screaming and neurotic’, and as a ‘confused stream of sound’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As I jumped into the steam-filled stall, Max switched the music over to my shower tunes playlist. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it the most beautiful music?” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

The songs and sounds they’ve absorbed are part of western musical style, and are now part of the musical lingua franca or the music that is “normal” for them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Brij and Matthew were arguing loudly about cryptocurrencies and Skid and Aaron were debating which was more important to society, botany or music, but I could barely hear them. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Students also can change their movements on a given signal, such as switching from a loco-motor to a non-loco-motor when they hear a drum beat or chime or when the music stops. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Finnish music blared from the radio, a sign that they had passed the border, out of the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself,” she saw through the shell of me into the center of me, “Do you like music?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Roberto and I began to tune in to rock ’n’ roll music on the radio. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

His feet in place, Maxx swayed his arms to the music, and the crowd erupted with laughter and deafening, sustained applause— the largest ovation by a good measure in Speaker Day history. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Outside, New York only seemed to exhale—horns, voices, machines, tires, sirens, helicopters, music, protests, advertisements—all pushing out the air, all selling noise. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A music stand provides an unlikely burst of inspiration. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the technology of music, of all things, was satirically portrayed as the ultimate triumph of hard-hearted commerce over humanity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Like the Pied Piper, the music lured the Indians out of their hiding places and into Rondon’s campsite. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Mariachi music played overhead, and I smelled pickles and grilled meat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I bet even when I’m an old-lady grandma, I will be able to play this piece of music perfectly. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He cued sound effects and music to fade in and out. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The musical effect of adding the boys is that there are now two parallel lines of music, not just one, since the boys’ voices are higher than those of the men. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Funk music filled the silence in the car. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Near the curb, some kids were making music. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her rooms were so silent that the music seemed obtrusive. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I love to sing, but I don’t like our music teacher, Mrs. Muldoon. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The music sounded impromptu, full of hundreds of interweaving melodies with almost no harmonies. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They heard live music played by an orchestra in New York and transmitted to the fair by long-distance telephone. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She brought in stacks of new books to read to us, as well as games and music and videos. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I focus on the music and let all thoughts about our house disappear. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And it was a good thing that the Hofbräuhaus music accompanying the boys was so loud, because more than a few of the kids in the bleachers fired off barrages of F-bombs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The only music I knew was from church: soaring, uplifting songs praising Jesus. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Try to stay calm, Annabel. I’ll be back in two minutes to lead you out there. I just want to check that my music is ready onstage. Now please line up by section, okay?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“When you feel afraid,” his mother had told him, all those years ago, “sing your fears away. Dragons make the most beautiful music in the world. Everyone says so.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were made of wood, painted, going round and round to tootling music. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

There’s already loud music playing, so me and Sneaky start the dance with our handshake. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Beethoven could not hide his unstable emotions from the music, nor did he use the job of music-making as a distraction from the difficulties of life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“That’s Black Flag,” he said, then used his phone to stop the music. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The music filled Bod’s head and chest with a fierce joy, and his feet moved as if they knew the steps already, had known them forever. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She planned about being with some bunch almost as much as she thought of music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Old men blew colored smoke through long painted flutes, etching the air with soundless music. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was something ancient in that noise, the music of a coordinated herd. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Hausa people of Nigeria have an extraordinarily rich vocabulary for discourse about music, but no single word for music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I knew I couldn’t afford a new one at a department store or music store, and I don’t know if I can even afford an Elliot guitar, but I have to find out. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ancient, back- broken math books, flaking travel books, warped spellers, mangled mysteries, biographies, music books, astronomy books, cookbooks. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the evening was far advanced, a sound of music issued from the drawing-room, whither the piano had been removed; Adèle and I sat down on the top step of the stairs to listen. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

That classical music stuff makes you drift off worse than NyQuil, then fires you awake soon as the violins get to screaming. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was no music, nothing going around, yet I could have sworn they were moving. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Bach was able to do this, and what emerged in the current were primordia in music. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a terrible sound, a frightening sound, yet there was music in it too. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Greek theorists called the orbiting motions they observed in the night sky ‘the music of the spheres’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He looks around, then up at the music. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The music was so loud, she was practically screaming so we could hear her. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Nobody—in spite of the music, in spite of the mounting excitement. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our living room, the music was dying down as the radio station announced two a.m. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But maybe the last part of the symphony was the music she loved the best—glad and like the greatest people in the world running and springing up in a hard, free way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it was good music. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

If we look at music in different parts of the world, we find even more variations and ideas about what music is. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I knew he couldn’t hear Miss Love’s music, not without his ear trumpet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For the awful violence of this slaughter, Strauss reserves his angriest, most dissonant music yet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I collapsed among the refugees on the floor of the music room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I flipped through the channels for a while, then sat back against the couch and watched music videos. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And there’s this throb of music and random bursts of laughter and people holding cans that aren’t Coke. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Being able to spot that overall architecture as we listen — knowing, so to speak, which room we are in right now — gives us important clues that help us understand and appreciate the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When it did, in England in around 1400, it took musical harmony on to a radical new plane, and altered the way music sounded for ever. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As far as I could tell, Rachel’s only rule about music was that no two songs on her iPod could sound the same, and they all had to be strange. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The music and the laughter died at once. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go see where the music recording nerds like future-you hang out.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As soon as we heard the music, we quieted down and began the procession. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

So I listened to his ideas about choreography, the songs he wanted to mix for the music, which beats were best for which power moves. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

His poor taste in music reached me before he did; the car vibrated from the bass, and Marcus sang loud and proud. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sad. Your father seems happy and I think he’ll make a good teacher. Those are some lucky kids who get to read The Great Gatsby with your dad. I’ll just miss the music.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smell Factor was head-banging with the feed music and turning his bunny plate around and around with his little pudgy fingers. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people feel that using such intervals in medieval music is not only more authentic, but sounds better too, since the music was composed for this tuning system. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So it was done on every island of the Archipelago that night: one dance, one music binding together the sea-divided lands. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I finally got into the dance room with the other guys, we turned up the music and did our best to drown out the reverberations of the many basketballs hitting the floor. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He put his chair into gear and zoomed to the front of that big room and shouted, “I am Freddy. I like music. I go fast!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Very faint, I recognized the Sesame Street music. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But music that is in D minor will have a different quality, because the notes in the minor scale follow a different pattern and so have different relationships with each other. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Some scales are loosely based on the music of other cultures, and are used when the composer wants to evoke the music of another place or time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Believe it or not, there was once music in my house, too. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Except the music coming from his is some kind of salsa music. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

And the great shrouds of music came out of the lab at any time of the day or night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those are the kind who play loud music in the woods that can be heard for miles, just to see who it attracts. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I shake my head and run up the steps, Juju tells the dreadlocked brother to turn up the music and leave me alone. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

We skated for a moment without talking, the polka music oompahing along. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight out into the sea they danced, under the moon one night past full, and the music was lost in the breakers’ sound. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted them to love the music she loved, the flowers she gave them, the books she admired. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Emma gave Charles “a large dose of music every evening,” as she said, and even though he could never remember a tune and was probably tone deaf, he enjoyed her playing very much. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to teach music lessons from our apartment, and Chopin would stream out the windows. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Following the music, getting filled by the rhythm. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the simplest melody became a full concert—like a music video—when Angel danced to it. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She forced her hands to her sides, shaking her unease, and strode into the music and gaming room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She would blast eighties music and zip between the stove and the cutting board and the oven. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I imagine my uncle doing his smooth dance steps down the wide road, smiling as the music plays loud. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

These musical cells, from which he created the whole web of the music, he called leitmotif. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I did,” said Despereaux, “but I was listening to the music, sir. I was there to hear the song that the king was singing. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

No one could resist the music and laughter. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The music from next door was slow now. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I mean, about the music, but also your mom. She’s getting involved.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The thud of music and partying comes from elsewhere in the building. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She imagined that they were going to the park: She missed teasing her for playing “old-fogy music”—Beethoven. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Now the darkness was closing in on his family; now the evil music filled the night, hung over the mangroves, skirled in the wave beat. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people even put music on a par with a religious experience, tapping into some other-worldly part of their conscious or unconscious existence. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While thinking this, I was startled by a sudden clang! clang! clang! followed by music. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s give Mom a chance to blast some music while she’s making a pie.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Here are the most common situations that may require you to change the key of a piece of music: Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Luke didn’t want to tell her that he barely listened to music. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The music was slow and deep and sad. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

So, perhaps, was music, both vocal and instrumental; excavating Caral, Shady discovered thirty-two flutes made of pelican wingbones tucked into a recess in the main temple. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He brought all the music to her, and they looked it over together.—Emma took the opportunity of whispering, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“It was Trudy’s money. Nothing would have made Trudy happier than to know she helped Caroline go on with her music.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Fender bowed—a music bow, not a karate bow—and beamed at the audience. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

To block out the music and the voices behind me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“It could be either of them. You saw Frankie downstairs in the music wing.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Loud, snazzy pop music plays on the radio. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he had not been our teacher when we were in the eighth grade, we had been allowed every day to join the high school for music since the chorus could not do without Caroline. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he listened; a faint sound of piano music floated to him from somewhere. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The door opened to the sound of nerve-shattering club music broadcast from an enormous stereo system. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the aides helped us down the hall to the music room, I wondered if I’d get to sit next to a regular kid. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The brain processes pitch information both locally and globally, where local music refers to the intervals between pitches, while global processing refers to the entire contour of the melody. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The overdramatic music that accompanies the show sounds like the mind-numbing background tracks of the Urdu dramas that my parents watch at home, so I’m glad to leave. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And then her mouth was against my ear and everything else—the gym, the crowd, the music—disappeared. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The movement of feet hustling through the streets of Newark matches the tip-tap of the Motown music playing inside. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The relationship between music and reading in beginning readers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

What Protestant and Counter-Reformation reforms meant, more or less whoever you were, was a simplifying of church music so that the words could be heard more clearly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“The food’s boring. There’s no music. We’ve invented eight thousand games and outgrown them all, some of them literally. Why not grow into something?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But in one vital respect Josquin made a departure, and one that was to become a hallmark of the music of the age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After the music faded, a man’s voice came on the radio. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Matthew, Emily’s older brother, bobbed his lopsided Mohawk as he listened to music. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Below is a rubric for evaluating multicultural music material including the content of the text, notation, and any recording. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I’d miss our little powwows in the music wing, but I would also be relieved to have our relationship out from under the microscope of high school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want him to show me how to finally bring the music that lives inside me to life. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

My dad turned up the volume to block out the music coming from my brother’s room and, leaning up just enough to make eye contact with me, pointed to his jaw and then to Lucas. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Finally, she lifted the clarinet to her mouth to once again focus on the music, but instead she kept thinking about the boy who had just been in the doorway. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This can include the more challenging types of jazz and rock music, as well as Classical. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

On my first Saturday night here, music pumps through every corner of the house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So he took the tenor’s music because it carried the main theme most of the time. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

What do people believe about certain genres of music? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

For those who remained, a singer was brought forth to fill the hall with the sweet music of the high harp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He pushed the button to turn it on, casting his face in a blue glow, then swiped through the music. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The rebellions that were to shake music, however, were almost entirely divorced from political realities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And indeed, introducing classical music to the masses became something of a mission for post-war governments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The National Core Standards for music takes the details from each of these anchor areas and breaks them down into specific, individual standards for use by each grade level. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She was about to put on her favorite music for calming herself down—Dill’s videos—when she remembered that all was not yet well there. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I stayed where I was until the program ended and music started to play. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was the same music she had heard the night before. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns up the volume so I can hear the music floating across the morning air. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he could still hear the music through the open door. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We go until the music stops, until someone turns on the lights and says the party is ending, that the neighbors have complained and the police are probably coming. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In my grail diary, I had every single Rush song, album, bootleg, and music video ever made. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Classical music was in trouble, and by the whirlwind conclusion of The Beatles’ adventure, it looked as if the words of one of their early Chuck Berry covers, ‘Roll over Beethoven’, were actually coming true. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.70: Syncopation is one of the most important elements in ragtime music, as illustrated in this example from Scott Joplin's Peacherine Rag. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Most music for large instrumental groups such as bands or orchestras is contrapuntal at least some of the time. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But because they are flexible enough to allow plenty of interesting but easy-to-grasp music, the rules are still widely used, particularly in popular music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And the conductor, Mengele, stands at the fork of these two rivers, keeping time to the music we provide him. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

However, guidelines are given below for infant and toddler music experiences. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the arts broke into different specialties, and the separate role of music teacher as we know it was created. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There was another pause, and then a marching music began like solemn drums, and above the rolling beats and booms there welled voices singing high and strong. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He studied music as a graduate student, performed professionally with orchestras and ensembles, composed music, and conducted. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I was just trying to read the music. And Mila didn’t need to react like that anyway.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They have live music and festivals, and lots of families take picnics there. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Capricorn was sitting down, the blaring music fell silent, and they brought Meggie forward. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At length a silence fell, and they heard the music of the waterfall running sweetly in the shadows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The tune was simple and easy to harmonize to, though, and back then I could memorize almost anything set to music after a round or two. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And all I hear is the clapping when the music stops. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Typically, folk, blues, rock, marches, and Classical-era46 music is based on relatively straightforward chord progressions, but of course there are plenty of exceptions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Decide whether the music has 2, 3, or 4 beats per measure. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He heard, for the first time that day, music: a polka. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, though, listening to beautiful music night after night, one grows curious about the player. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But if I quit flute, I’ll have to find a music class that works for me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I sat at my desk and stared at the wall and listened to music and thought about it and thought about it and thought about it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Judging from the ringing in Leo’s ears, the dwarf had detonated the flash-bang grenade, which Leo had filled with a rare vial of Apollo’s music, pure liquid extract. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Allyssa, twelve, a huge fan of music, composed an original piece about Joe Hill, the same labor activist who Taylor and Jayme had done their project on a few years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew Mama wanted the piano so Mary Toy could take music lessons. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The loud, bouncy music of trumpets and guitars came at her from every direction. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Sure thing," said Megan, dancing to the music “This lemonade stand was the greatest idea. It's like a birthday for the whole neighborhood!" The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Again, there is loud music, but it comes from the TV. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“What? You think I don’t know soul music? I grew up on this stuff, honey!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There's quite a commotion going on down in the streets, music and singing and car horns, none of which I could hear through the thick glass window panels in my room. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the aggregate level, children physically respond to music’s beat, and are able to move more accurately when the tempo of the music more clearly corresponds to the natural tempo of the child. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Voices with the low music of my mother. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Could Beethoven hear the music of the distant future? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Magister Spurge,” she said, “perhaps to settle your stomach, a little music?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He makes me put on heavy metal music. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh. The music room. I was much better ... before I had my—my ...” “Nervous breakdown,” said Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Importantly, though, for all his rough edges, Mussorgsky showed that Russian music could obey its own rules, follow its own tastes and carve its own identity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Everyone is in the music room, putting together instruments, getting ready for the holiday concert. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

If your music is already stored as a computer file, there are programs that will transpose it for you and display and print it in the new key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

However, much of the music in children’s lives is “unchosen,” in other words they are passive recipients in much of the music in their lives, and not actively engaged in its selection. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music is loud here, but I shout over it because I remember something. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Gradual changes in the basic tempo are also common in music, though, and these have their own set of terms. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

His father, immersed in rock music, had built a recording studio in their home. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As the music flowed through my headphones, I thought about what Mrs. Hidalgo had said at dinner. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But even his taste in music is offbeat. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pentatonic aspect of Debussy’s piano music provided much inspirational fuel for later generations of jazz pianists. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“You still have to learn to read music,” she says. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Then why do you say classical music is the best?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music really wasn’t fittin’, under the circumstances of Granny being dead and all, but it sounded mighty fine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The car sped away, leaving a trail of blaring music behind it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I know how much your music means to you, and I also know that you will be doing this for the right reasons. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed odd to Matt that someone who couldn’t hear could teach music, but so it was. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drones can be most easily found in bagpipes music, Indian Classical3l music and other musics that use instruments that traditionally play drone notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you know where Ms. Fender keeps extra sheet music?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I get about half my music from unprotected sites, and half from private sites with very restricted access. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone goes to someone’s house, and they play a lot of music and dance. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Ged's spirits lifted with the first lifting of the forty long oars, and the drumbeat that kept the stroke made a brave music to him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Egyptian art is rife with depictions of musicians and their instruments, suggesting that music was an important feature of public and private life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It includes many different kinds of music: lullabies and children's singing games, tunes that everyone enjoys singing together or dancing to, songs for celebrations, ceremonies, and holidays. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Inside the bench were the same exercise notes with handwritten scales, the same secondhand music books with their covers held together with yellow tape. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soca music played on as she worked on another section of her hair, hectic steel pan and percussion thumping through the air, her spine prickling. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“There is some music out there that I do think is inappropriate—like music with bad language—but that’s different,” he continued. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was so much music and shouting, no one paid attention to the horn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing develops from about 19 to 26 weeks of the pregnancy when the inner ear matures, and babies respond to voices and classical music by turning towards it and relaxing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They stared for a while at the activity on the midway and then drifted back to the tent from which music and voices issued. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have already witnessed composers beginning to play around with this sequence as they became aware of musical gravity, but in the dusty world of music terminology it has a name: the Circle of Fifths. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By the time I got to school, the music swelled in my headphones, and it was like I’d reached the top of a mountain. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

My voice pours out of me in perfect tune with the music. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sheet music was torn from someone’s hands to streak around us like strange lightning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You girls want to hear some music?” she asks. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

To explore the idea of music as culture, let’s look further at Mary and her lamb. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Why don't we listen to some music? I’ll put on a lovely Andrews Sisters album. That’ll get our minds off the waiting.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When Kenna’s album was making the rounds in New York, being considered by music industry executives, on three separate occasions it was given to an outside market-research firm. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

‘Dotted’ patterns, with the skipping rum-tah-tum emphasis they create, were very common indeed in European music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in France. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Got a man in the Bible, son, who liked music, too. And he got to dancing one day before the Lord. You reckon you going to dance before the Lord one of these days?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And laughter, a high-pitched laugh that blends harmoniously with the music. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The music turns off and I hear, “Yo, White Rabbit, get in.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music was extremely loud inside, but then again, I had not been to a pub for many years. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He wanted to turn up the music so loud that Luke could hear it back at school. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was so deeply in the music that I couldn’t have told you where it stopped and my blood began. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Poetry is kinda like my music—it paints a picture in my head, only with words. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Beat — Beat also has more than one meaning, but always refers to music with a steady pulse. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Alfred hurried on, away from the crowd's nervous laughter, past young men leaning against padlocked shop doors, tapping their shiny shoes and nodding their heads to silent music. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door jerks open and the music and smell of pot smoke hit me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I do what she said and follow the music to the kitchen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If the music sounds at all "exotic" or "unusual," you should suspect that this may be the case. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Steady held the note for a long time, then made the sax drift away from the rest of the storm of music. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It seems to be the doing of some curious savage led by nothing but his emotion to discover step by step what music is about. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram full of people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then the whole side of my face started to vibrate as if the music had rushed into my pores. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luma cued up her iPod, which was plugged into her car stereo, and turned up the music. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Gradually, a specialization process began to occur and music became a regular subject with its own certification, an educational tradition that continues to this day. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music, the anthem of Saturday night debauch, filtered to them through the jail stones that now enveloped them, isolated them with Junior Palmer. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This development was a huge bonus, with music of the eighteenth, seventeenth and sixteenth centuries first in line for resuscitation, followed by music from even earlier periods. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Justin listens to loud and obnoxious music on a loud and obnoxious station where loud and obnoxious DJs make loud and obnoxious jokes as a way of getting through the morning. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sure, it’s a little lovey and sappy, but it expresses how music makes me feel most of all: HAPPY!! The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks ago, under a pile of old sheet music and practice books, I found a yellowed book of boogie-woogie pieces, and old-time blues and rock. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Looking up the path, I can see more buildings thru the trees and hear that music playing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

What’s more, he wrote the libretto as well as the music, and drew up the specifications of the purpose- built theatre at Bayreuth in which it was to be performed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He closes his eyes, his body bouncing, his head bobbing in time to the music running in his head. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

However, to get the melodic kind of sounds more often associated with music, the sound waves must themselves be organized and regular, not random mixtures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The simplest thing to do is to find recordings of quality music and play songs with an even, steady beat and have children move, clap, tap, patsch, hit an instrument, or walk to that beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Being at odds with the other arts was not the only aspect of the symphony that dislocated music from its time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Not that I really cared about the quality of the music at that moment, but still, it was what I noticed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Listening to music and dancing made me forget my troubles. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Hearing her play, and watching how deeply she lost herself in the music, I wanted to play like that. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s built onto a flatbed trailer with a frame constructed up the back, and it definitely looks like country music. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

At first I suggest it because I think music will put her in a good mood. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Chord symbols also may be used even when an accompaniment is written out, so that performers can read either the chord symbol or the notated music, as they prefer. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She spent some nights in Obinze’s boys’ quarters, lounging on his mattress on the floor, listening to music. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Raskin did not consider his later work in computer design at Apple to be a departure from music. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Since colonial times, when European cultures came into contact with many Non-Western cultures, musicians on all sides have been experimenting with music that is a blend of "the best of both worlds." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The outdoor concert was joyfully billed as “three days of peace and music.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He is breathing hard, and his panting is music. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

This book is intended to aid those who have little or no background in music, in order to increase their comfort in integrating music into the curriculum. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This notation can be confusing, though, and in some music the pickups and repeats are written in a way that avoids these broken-up measures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He hurried off just as everything went pitch dark, and then the music shook the stage, nearly knocking Armpit out of his chair. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I can see her now, in the spare room upstairs, music blaring, window open, a brush in her hand, an enormous canvas leaning against the wall. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

This makes it easy for you to dance or clap your hands to the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He took Caroline to the college in Salisbury and had her sing for the head of the music department. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There'd be music playing, and those rhythmic sounds would get inside me and make me want to dance the whole day. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I had the music for the air before me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Zooey sat down on the bench, tentatively, then looked with very apparent interest at the sheet music on the stand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the silence becomes almost unbearable, Ramiro asks me about my favorite music. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Ancient music, such as Gregorian chants; new music, such as some experimental twentieth-century art music; and Non-Western music, such as some native American flute music, may not have a strong, repetitive pattern of beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He recognized her first by her braid, then by the easy music of her walk. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hermes also made the shepherd-pipe for himself and drew enchanting music from it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kind of city-street music where laughter belies anxiety, and joy is as short and straight as the blade of a pocketknife. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elemental music is never music alone but forms a unity with movement, dance and speech. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I let out a whoop as I soar over the plain, the music egging me on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the country became more troubled, my father stopped listening to music, and singing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the distance he could still hear the music of the merry-go-round. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Moreover, both music aptitude and music achievement are dependent on audiation; i.e., our music learning potentials and our music learning achievements are based on our music thinking. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

That's one thing Bengali Muslims and Hindus share in common: the music of Rabindranath Tagore. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To change this, he promoted simplified harmonies that made the melody the most prominent aspect of the music, and downgraded the importance of the other vocal parts to support the melody. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

One way that a composer keeps a piece of music interesting is by varying how strongly the end of each phrase sounds like "the end." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The beginning of the 20th century was an exciting time for music education, with several significant instructional methods being developed and taking hold. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t a unique experiment, though, and nor was patriotic heroism confined to music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I watched soccer, cartoons, music shows featuring British boy bands, and world music from Ireland, America, Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even know if Ginny would be able to handle the loud music and the crowds. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her dad nodded to the beat as music filled the room. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Write at least four measures of music in each time signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Nothing attracted her attention except the music of the clocks, which she would look for every half hour with her frightened eyes as if she hoped to find it someplace in the air. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t write the music just like it sounded in her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their research suggests that once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The sounds of branches snapping off trees became my music. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We went out into the main part of the mall and went into a music store but it was really really really loud, so we went out? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This music, of course, is very familiar and accessible to them, and it is only normal that they are inspired by and want to mimic their favorite pop star. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Darius raises the volume on the music, and this is what takes up the widening silence between us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I put some Vivaldi on, hoping the music would settle me down. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Flush music amplified as Matthew came out of his room and joined them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And like in the United States, the way we celebrate is with great parties filled with lots of music, dancing, and delicious grilled meats. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Free sheet music is available for the different instruments, as well as music from different popular movies. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it's slower music, the Five Stairsteps telling us things are going to get easier, or the Hollies singing, He ain't heavy, he's my brother So on we go . Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I am going to blow the horn of Rohan, and give them all some music they have never heard before.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Obviously continual response to the music had developed within them an almost Pavlovian response to the noise, a response which they believed was pleasure. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room pulsed with feeling, the feeling flowing with the music and the breeze from the curtains, feeling colored by the blue flowers painted in a border around the walls. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe out of all the billions of planets, music is unique to Earth. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Post both photos, and ask him to choose between them when entering music class. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And when I stand to fill up my water bottle and pop a lozenge and check that my audition music hasn’t wrinkled, I break into tears too. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A cold December drizzle was falling as I stood in my place and listened to the loud blare of the prelude music for our daily exercises. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t really like that kind of music any more. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, still working on my music. Trying to finish this demo with Jon.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They held each other for a few minutes, their breaths rising and falling as one, their bodies rocking gently to the rhythm of whatever silent music the night was playing for them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She made her listener see the snow in Canada, the trees hung with icicles, see Niagara Falls like frozen music in the winter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually Myron branched out to represent not just athletes but people in the arts, theater, and music. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Something else emerges in Mozart, though, beyond the sublime melodies, that Haydn’s music does not anticipate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was playing a guitar and he had on skinny pointy-toed cowboy boots and he was tap' ping them while he was playing the music. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It takes several hours, but Malik, Sonny, and I put together a music video for “On the Come Up,” using footage that Malik recorded for his documentary. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“How much music do you have?” he asked. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One of the most important consequences of the notation revolution was the way it changed how music was created. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Before my father went to prison, they played music together, my father on the piano, my uncle on the guitar. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The music slows, and a bright Urdu love song takes over from the sonorous dhol. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And when Matt played really, really well, he was too enraptured to care what the music teacher thought. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ah yes, the Würzburg transport. A real music town, isn't it? Theresienstadt's the place for you, then. Lots of uppity artists." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“There’s a concert tomorrow at MUSON. Do you like classical music?” he asked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Children who get sustained musical education have long been assumed to reap educational benefits in areas other than music. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

This particular case study on West African music relies solely on aural learning, which means that a rote method is applicable to the music learning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music was still playing: somewhere, at the edge of perception, solemn and strange. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the gym felt like one giant treehouse, sparks of light and music and magic everywhere. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Wisps of violin music floated on the air. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“There’s a nice place up around Forty-second Street. With music.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to this point in musical history - the first few years of the twentieth century - ethnic folk elements had been co-opted into classical music as subsidiary exotic flavouring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The golden ratio was favored by artists and nature alike and seemed to prove the Pythagorean assertion that music, beauty, architecture, nature, and the very construction of the cosmos were all intertwined and inseparable. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

From inside the big top, the band launches into the music for the Spec. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In a few moments, she starts to sway to the odd music. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Lets the music of the woods outside—chirping crickets, hooting owls, wind in the leaves—fill his head. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I suspect DeShon is “lights out,” though I bet his music is on. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Jay was on my other side, somehow reading a book while listening to the world’s worst music. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, trying to rid himself of the music. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew loads about Jesse—he loved baths but hated hot tubs, he listened to self-important indie music, cologne made his eyes puffy, he never washed his jeans—but Diego was an enigma. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was a lot more music on the radio than usual, and fewer words. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel got us to the end-of-summer party, a cheerleader party, with beer and seniors and music. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because it was the music we'd grown up with, I liked to think that my sisters and I had a genuine appreciation of jazz. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Papa had just checkmated Jaja when we heard the martial music on the radio, the solemn strains making us stop to listen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Gabriel was happy just reading a book or listening to music or walking around town with Libby Truett, his best friend. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

So, not thinking This is what I’m going to do, and this is what will happen next, 1 front-kicked the music stand, and “Pirate Medley” went flying. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’s been asking me a billion questions about food, clothes, music, and places. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Did you order the music for dessert, Isaiah? What a nice touch!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I put my headphones back on and turn the music loud enough to drown out every other sound, so I can finally fall asleep. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Papi and Lolo are working on the other end of the hall in the men’s room; I can hear their voices echo over the music as I swirl circles with the sandpaper block. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Around me, the music and lights and colors whirl and pulse. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew only one song, so she played happy carnival-style music for every scene, even when characters were getting shot and dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Similarly, in music there are clues that signal to the listener that the end is coming up. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In fact, when describing the texture of a piece of music, two of the most important questions that need to be addressed are: is there counterpoint, and how important is it? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Middle Tennessee State was Dill’s first choice, because of their music recording programs and Lydia’s sense of where Dill might thrive. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The music did not seem so jolly then; he heard discords and strange silences, and notes that hung in the air bleeding. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The tables are pushed back and the music starts, though I wonder that they don’t just move the party indoors. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music showed us what she couldn’t say. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the grove behind them, three marble statues of women stood beneath the shadowy pines, their hands raised and touching, their legs extended as if frozen in mid-dance to some long-lost music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Classical music is softly seeping from her new iPod. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But ho, let me tickle your thoughts with this—the ship even has a movie theater, a music room, a beauty salon, and a promenade deck completely enclosed in glass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

According to what I heard, New Orleans was about music, gambling, and w'omen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is as fundamental a structural change to the way music sounded as was the contemporaneous decision to start using timber frames and bricks in the building of houses. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The music was loud and quick in her mind, and she ran faster and faster on the sidewalks leading to the home block. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The drive back home is longer and quieter because Chantal doesn’t put on any music. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone was nodding their heads to music, or had their eyes just blank with the feedcast. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that stands in the way of our assessment of our sixteenth- and seventeenth-century ancestors as cruel, barbaric monsters is what they produced in art, poetry, architecture and music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Research in the sociology of music education: Some introductory concepts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

So, in order to save time, ink, and page turns, common notation has many ways to show that a part of the music should be repeated exactly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

No police sirens, no loud music, no couples arguing outside his window on the street. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As he handed it to me, the music faded out, and in the same instant, I heard a chime sound. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘Only this girl’s music controls me. I hate it. Please, sing some more.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had first expressed an interest in setting the poem to music when he was in his early twenties, before the full weight of the Napoleonic Wars began to envelop Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Right then I knew that no way, however I played, however hard I focused on the music, would I get the beautiful open big blue-sky feeling. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But most of all I love what Anastasia calls the music room. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My legs are steadier now, and I start to sway slightly to the music. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Most Americans only come to “know” about the people cycling in and out of prisons through fictional police dramas, music videos, gangsta rap, and “true” accounts of ghetto experience on the evening news. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The higher version the boys sing is made up of identical notes to the men’s, but at a higher register; so there is a fixed, natural distance between the two identical lines of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t explain why I didn’t want him to know what kind of music I listened to. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Unlike folk music, it has usually been written recently and belongs to professional musicians, and new popular tunes quickly replace old ones. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dee is dancing in place to imaginary music, making a bass sound deep in her throat. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Amelia, what do you say you promise to give music a chance?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

In some modern music, many of these dissonances are heard as pleasant or interesting or jazzy and don't need to be resolved. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem to be distracted or annoyed by the honking traffic or the cacophony of music and voices spilling out onto the avenue. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it was also the start of a process whereby, in classical music, the old soon far outweighed the new. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Creating active listeners who can focus, concentrate, and direct their attention should be one of the main goals of teaching, and one in which music can play a vital role. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They sang at their work and in the evenings sat together making music, singing and playing instruments. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Is the music you are working with too high or too low? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s only my music box. I didn’t suppose anyone could hear it.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can watch and listen to the music. Everyone talks about the dances at the Vets. They even announce them on the radio.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a siren, a taxi horn, music from a window, and a bird chirping. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Much folk, popular, and modern music, gives instructions in English or in the composer's language. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I turn up my music to drown out the noise. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

—Oh, don’t get me started about rap music . . . meaningless, mindless noise. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Complex societies, however, separate music making and the music makers from everyone else, who become consumers or listeners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the circle threw her a wave or a smile, and she started swaying to the music, slow and easy. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In a sixty-year career on the concert stage she tirelessly championed the music of her husband, of Brahms and of Chopin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Handel's significance in music history is that he was the first composer we can call truly international. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There were precious few opportunities for young black men in the segregated America of the 1920s, yet through music these two men became icons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Abby sings along under her breath to the music and kind of shimmies her shoulders. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The pulsing sound of people speaking Spanish around me, or the music that would surprise your ears as you passed by an open window, was missing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But we can make some educated guesses as to what music from ancient Greek and Roman times really sounded like, based on their writings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Let them be children, excited by the prospects of music, marching, and folderol. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They just lie there and groove, but after a while they start hearing—you won’t believe this—they hear chamber music. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silver oars propelled the craft, each stroke keeping time to the music of flutes and harps. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Both music and the colourful ritual of ballet thrived at the French court under Lully and Louis XIV who built upon the musical patronage of his predecessors. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

All the plans she had made, and the music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As with other human learning potentials, there is a wide range of music aptitude levels distributed among the human population. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Mercy on us, this will never do,” thought Jo, adding aloud, “Go and sing to me. I’m dying for some music, and always like yours.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found Her Grace sewing by the fire, whilst her fool danced about to music only he could hear, the cowbells on his antlers clanging. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Jason already has “book” and “music,” and who knows if he even likej raspberry sherbet. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dean and his wife of Highland, Wisconsin, were listening to dance music on their radio when it was interrupted by the newsflash about a Mars disturbance. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were talking about the Armenian sector and the best music stations on the radio when a Jewish man in a yarmulke walking by the shop addressed Liyana loudly in Hebrew. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What this type of analysis does is to help us understand the cultural values associated with music, and what is important about sound and the concepts and behaviors associated with it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Remembering what I’d been told, I, still playing music, headed straight for the church, too. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In a letter to Descartes’ friend Mersenne he mentioned that some of Descartes’ ideas on music had come from him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing to tell! Promise. I just talked to him for the first time last week. And he’s into making music and said he would show me how.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She could see it beating in time with the music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And the music of the pearl rose like a chorus of trumpets in his ears. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep talking and talking, telling Mama Ya-Ya about the food, the music, and about how happy everyone seems. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

May nodded to June to keep on with the music and took Rosaleen’s hand, pulling her to Our Lady of Chains, so even Rosaleen got to touch Mary’s heart. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the “normal” children in the music class— I guess about thirty of them—turned to stare. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I always put music on when I paint, but for the first time I can remember, I’m afraid that the colors will overwhelm me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Down front, a high school orchestra played rousing music by John Philip Sousa. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A footman opens the door, and I see the whole courtyard, filled with music and voices and merriment. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Welles cues music again as the program supposedly switches to Brooklyn’s Hotel Martinet. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

By virtue of your everyday experiences with music, you know more than you think about music, and can probably easily answer the questions in Activity 1D. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She played music for dying people, going to their homes and even to the hospital to serenade them into the next life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had tried everything: counting, having Mr. W. conduct me through it, NOT counting, closing my eyes, reading the music, ignoring the music. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liszt spearheaded a shift from orchestral to illustrative music, using this 1850 painting of Attila the Hun in battle as the basis for his symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It made the music seem mysterious, which filled Jesse with a feeling of power over the hills rolling out from behind the truck. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

No music from next door, no loud talking on the stoop, even the rats scratching in the wall are quieter. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Some blacks were able to cross over into the white markets in the forties if their talents were not too much connected with the blues or low-down black music. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“All I heard was my daughter playing music.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When it’s time for music class, my feet feel like they are loaded down by bricks. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“That music, when I came in. Was that your dad's? It was beautiful. I didn't know there was music like that.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This site would be helpful to those learning new instruments, as well as experienced musicians who are just looking for some new music to play. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I realized then that I had no more to fear concerning my faux pas in turning off their music. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

How was classical music going to respond to this new, potentially fatal relationship between mass audiences and new genres that were irresistible to them? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This is good for very short, simple songs; songs that have a lot of repetition either in the words or music; or call and response songs with few variables. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Then the music started again and we danced. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I haven’t told Mom and Dad that I want to quit flute, and now Sue and Mom are talking about music class. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

This time in the empty space in the middle of the library there are two lone music stands facing each other. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Learning sequences in music: A contemporary music learning theory. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

At first he thought it was a radio or cassette player and he had a surge of hope because he missed music, missed sounds, missed hearing another voice. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rowan was immediately assaulted by loud dance music. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

By then, Adam had been watching me practice in the music wing for several months. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stamitz’s music is at best agreeable, but he does demonstrate an important first step in the process of creating proportion from basic melodies. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That way, during the fair everyone could test out my hypothesis that music could change one’s mood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But all the time—no matter what she was doing—there was music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he went away I felt a sweetness like music, if music could pleasure the skin with a little chill. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s called Vivace. It means, like,‘bright or cheerful,’ like the music is in a good mood, so the musician has got to feel that. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It also matters because by fixing the first impression at the heart of the audition—by judging purely on the basis of ability—orchestras now hire better musicians, and better musicians mean better music. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The music of the trees rang in her ears. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bending down, he felt along the edge of the carpet near the wall for the pine bar—part of a music stand he had hidden there that afternoon. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music made the hair on Harry’s neck stand up, and yet it was not unpleasant. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Everything was eerily quiet except for the faint music from the carousel. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then we happened upon a group of boys playing music. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We begin setting the table while some sort of rumba music plays, the kind Lola and the aunties would start dancing to if they heard it. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

‘Some of them you would never wish to be hearing yourself! But some is like glorious music!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver closes his sketchbook, turns the music off on his phone, and stands up. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The music was suddenly interrupted by an anniversary radio broadcast from Adolf Hitler. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A great vat was overturned, and our little band of music stood upon it as upon a stage, our instruments accompanied by the unison tread of the company assembled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She had worked on music in this notebook all the winter. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then she hits something on her phone, and the night is filled with music. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The huge crowd was intimidating, and besides, he was used to playing electric music with his band. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“No, Mila, it didn't. I was watching. You kicked that music stand on purpose.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wind chimes of all shapes and sizes lined the porch, making their lonely music in the breeze. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were walking in time to the music. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe the music that constantly pulsed through his earbuds dulled the sound a bit. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, arbitrarily delineated stages provide a useful shorthand for discussing the diversity of music and of human societies, provided one bears in mind the above caveats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The most obvious connections might be between music and logical-mathematical or spatial intelligences since music involves rhythm, counting, and working with time-space relationships. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The swelling music, the soft hoodie, the linked arms bolstering me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

That stopped the singing entirely except for one high, shrill note that had not been written in the music. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

She gave the whole band a stern look over her music stand. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My God,” he said, still looking at the sheet music on the stand. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

María selects some music from an old jukebox in the corner while my mom and Charlie take seats on one of the high tables in the middle of the room. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed listening to music—but I couldn’t play an instrument. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then he sat back, apparently enjoying the music. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Through the practice of imitation, exploration, improvisation, and composition, students learn what music is by performing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I can see her leaning back against the door, knees under her chin, laughing at something, or singing along with the music. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Any way you think of it, it was music to my ears. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just think about the amount of time you spend surrounded by music in your day. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It should also be noted that some music traditions around the world do not use the type of precision tunings described above, not because they can't, but because of an aesthetic preference for wide tuning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So the original classical music comes from one fairly short era. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Her roommate was a music major, which meant Terryl got to attend music events. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Polly was finding the song more and more interesting because she thought she was beginning to see the connection between the music and the things that were happening. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Nor was music seen as a background supplement to films. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A good performer will be familiar with dozens of ragas and can improvise music — traditional classical music in India is improvised — using the accepted format for each raga. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can't suppress my excitement. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s...really cool. I’m obsessed with movie scores. The music. I actually want to compose my own someday.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“How was music class today with Ms. Parker?” he asks. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when I get to college, that’s all people will know about me—that I do music.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow’s music and eagerly awaited the dawn. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I'm wondering how far the truck has driven, I hear Liz's voice over the music. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He read, and even though I didn’t understand the words, they were so beautiful they sounded like music, and I put my head down on my desk to listen better. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She moves it in time with the music, rolling her ankle. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The clatter of the chains that bound them made a harsh metallic music as they marched across the sand in lockstep and formed up with their long spears. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And as for James, never had he heard such beautiful music as this! James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe after she learned how to write these simple tunes fairly quick she could begin to put down the whole music in her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The worst music and the worst hair in the history of the human race—that’s no lie.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Hills and lakes, mountains and forests went waltzing round them to unheard music. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered Tyler as he’d been when I was young, the quiet older brother reading his books while I lay under his desk, staring at his socks and breathing in his music. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One is that the music is not in a major or minor key! Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She lived with her parents and clerked in a music store. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Of course, it wasn’t polite for a prince to dance with only one lady, but he couldn’t focus on anything beyond his partner and the music that carried them onward. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the intervening years, music has grown from joyful servant of humankind and the Almighty to a bigger experience than both of them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I would’ve been happy to just sit in his car and listen to music. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It’s one of my favorites, and it’s the perfect soundtrack to cry to, since the piano music is so soft and beautiful. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The orbs hanging off the trees barely hummed, and the music played softly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He borrowed brief snippets of sleep in the cabana, always awakened by music, or raucous laughter, or fireworks. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This is all we know about him before his inner music was abruptly stopped. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She knew they all thought she was just a spoiled prima donna who didn’t know anything about music. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He wore a stereo headset, and his head was jerking back and forth to the music. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a thick metal-and-Plexiglas divider between the front and back seat, plus, the driver's listening to some tinny music. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could submerge her long enough, I could break the spell of the music Of course, Annabeth wouldn’t be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Uri explained that the music was only in my head, for the merry-go-round was two kilometers away. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On an ordinary day, Mrs. Richardson would have opened the door, told Izzy to turn the volume down, made some disparaging comments about how depressing and angry Izzy’s music always seemed to be. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought of the girl who bristled at the smell of weed in music appreciation class and realized that I didn't want to be her anymore. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I began to hear something truly remarkable, and it is called music. I’ll give you some before I go.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Also, it helped Lydia promote Dearly’s music on her blog—so that she didn’t look like she was plugging her own boyfriend. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In the six years since the arrest and conviction of Jordan Sparks, music had helped Angel to heal and grow. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then when my father went away, my uncle started writing his own music, telling stories in his songs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

You can drum alone in the music room until you’re decent enough for live shows. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When Cap wasn’t in the lotus position in front of his locker, he was usually in the music room, strumming a guitar and singing to himself. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I had one job to do—press ‘Play’ on a cassette player to turn on some music. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a voice in his head also, during the pauses of the music, which seemed to be giving directions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes later in the afternoon, we would listen to classical music, and Papa Will would sit on the big green velvet chair in the living room. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I, um, spend a lot of time in the gym. Anyway, I honestly didn’t know you’d be in here. Your music is just super loud.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was all so pretty and smelled so good and the singing birds made such fine music that Mama wouldn’t go on. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is their books he reads, their music he listens to. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could still hear the music and laughter from the Square, but it was more muted here, and she found herself nodding off. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just need to add music and smooth out all the rough transitions. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She'd even written in her card, "Here's a little something to help you get that music thing you want." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Home, for Dicey, was their house in Provincetown, where the wind made the boards creak in a way that was almost music. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, the dancers appeared dressed as flappers, twirling wildly to jazzy music. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My middle school didn’t have much of a music program, so Mom found me a private teacher, a college student who came over once a week. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others exclaimed that they too loved Chinese food, and we talked about recipes and restaurants until the music faded in: Girl of my dreams, I love you, Honest I do, You are so sweet. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline got everyone seated again and turned the music down very low; but for a while they all just sat there feeling uncomfortable. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music which started everything and on which, you could say, my entire existence depended, is on its way. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But as soon as there was a moment of silence, everyone could hear the music. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music didn’t help Candice fall asleep, but she felt better. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rap music changed after the War on Drugs shifted into high gear and thousands of young, black men were suddenly swept off the streets and into prisons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the glamour professions—movies, sports, music, fashion— there is a different dynamic at play. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Every time his music is performed it lives again, fresh, newly awoken, sometimes interpreted surprisingly or unexpectedly but always experienced in the here and now. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then—thanks to the kid in the sound booth—her music begins to play. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe later on, when she had just waked up some morning, more of the music would come back to her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The familiar, tinny music of Emerald Hill Zone pops up. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her body swayed to the music, her eyes closed, her large hands smacking together on the downbeat. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And schools across the country were banning trench coats, backpacks, black clothing, white makeup, Goth music, computer gaming shirts and symbols. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or for listening to industrial music or wearing odd clothes. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Learning sequences in music: A contemporary music learning theory. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Singing and listening to music makes my heart happy and hopeful. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But, as Darwin and Wallace showed, there is another way, equally appealing, equally human, and far more compelling: natural selection, which makes the music of life more beautiful as the aeons pass. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music rose from the tabernacle once again. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to the music of his teacher Haydn or to Mozart, it seems much more dramatic and pianistic, almost to the point of theatricality, than anything they had written for the same instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Explained, too, were why the telephone calls had come on Sundays, whenever Tessie was at church, and the music in the background, which Milton now identified as the priests chanting the liturgy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The music room was huge—almost twice as large as our classroom. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When they more or less gave birth to the systematic education of young people, it is worth noting that their first compulsory seven subjects were grammar, rhetoric, logic, maths, geometry, astronomy and music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Musical movement responses in early childhood music education practice in the Netherlands. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She loved poetry and music, especially R&B, but her favorite thing to do was run track. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In my laboratory at Cornell University we work on, among other things, prebiological organic chemistry, making some notes of the music of life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me my father had lured her away from “a miserable dreary hell” with sweet music and sweeter words. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was that young, cool, down-to-earth teacher that dressed fly every day and knew all the music us kids listened to. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My body vibrates with the rhythms of the cumbias, as though my blood and bones have absorbed the music and my insides are dancing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up as the music seemed to call me, to invite me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I read them not merely because I loved black music—I did—but because of the writing itself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I knew I should stop—this was the Lord’s time—but I hadn’t even started the assignment for music theory, which was due at seven A.M. on Monday. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Else what the hell good had it all been—the way she felt about music and the plans she had made in the inside room? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Given this, it is important to remember music education’s history, origin and deep roots in the American education experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Is that the kind of music you normally listen to?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Both of them vanished, becoming only music in the breeze. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I thought of the sandwich he’d given me and the music on his radio and the smell of cigar smoke and his eyes when he’d dropped me off. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And the whole, wonderful point of some experiences—music, sex, laughter—is that there are not and never will be any adequate words to describe them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A deathly silence became the music that reverberated throughout. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I started blinking a lot and looking around, and the music sounded heavy like water. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a new track, which is one of his rules when it comes to music: He won’t put a song that’s been out for more than a year on the playlist. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You just chose natural things. How about paintings, or music. We say, ‘The potter makes a beautiful vase.’ Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Put together the various clues to reach your final decision, and check it with your music teacher or a musician friend if possible. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There we built our bonfire, and Olakunde and the other musicians began to make their music for the dance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When they pulled into the Fair Grounds, they could hear music and see the Ferris wheel turning in the sky. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you could bring the guitar to school and follow me around playing music everywhere I go.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

How might you use music to “enhance” a science or language arts lesson? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It sparked a lively exchange of ideas and tunes between countries, but also between contemporary church music and its secular counterpart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go to Logan’s music store and listen to one of the new phonographs?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel her music sinking into my skin, healing and repairing my burns. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Behind me the radio plays square dance music from the Maritimes, Don Messer and His Islanders, in preparation for the six o’clock news. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In front of the chair in which he was sitting was a steel music stand, and on the stand was The Strange Case of Alger Hiss. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Well . . . not the music. Don’t ask about that, or why he doesn’t do magic anymore.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps most significantly, this great wave of 'rediscovered’ older music was being offered to the public just as modern music was embarking upon a journey towards greater difficulty, confrontation and experimentation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The first beat is usually the strongest, and in most music, most of the bars have the same number of beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The set of expected pitches for a piece of music can be arranged into a scale. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Kwaito, a South African mix of hip-hop and house music, blared from cars that passed us. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They stomped to the music, and stepped and spun and kicked, and the lady danced with them, stepping and spinning and kicking with enthusiasm. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was the music to the dance she'd performed just a few months before. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was music, some new singer I didn’t know, and the giggling of children. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nowadays you have to pay $12.50 to see them with five thousand bellowing skinheads who don’t even let you hear the music. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom won’t be here for another twenty minutes, so I hang around the music room even after they leave. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we kept getting closer and closer to the carrousel and you could start to hear that nutty music it always plays. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I listened to the strange music they made, like it was an old, favorite song. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

My actual job was to choose the music for the film. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A soul tune was blasting out of an eight-track tape player, and all the black women packed between the peeling wooden benches were singing and dancing to the music. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the music built to a crescendo, Anorak stretched out his right hand. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was so, so nervous, but she was so, so awesome and lovely and everyone buy her music, please and thanks. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Doc worked carefully washing the glasses so that they would not clash together and spoil the music. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But keeping friendly appearances is a minstrel’s business just as much as music. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

El’s music ends a few seconds before she’s actually done clogging, but she finishes and curtsies before running offstage. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was hessian music, Black Sabbath, coming from a car up on blocks in the middle of the garage. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In English today, we get to listen to music during reading. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It faked happiness, faked welcome, but it did not make her feel generous, this juke joint, barrel hooch, tonk house, music. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vietnamese music plays continuously on the radio as women snip and clip at their customers’ hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep a list of desirable activities such as listening to CDs or playing music Bingo. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mother decided she would enroll me in music lessons to distract me and give me a new creative goal to work on. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Walking around the other way, I was startled to hear a hollow, tinny music coming from the common rooms. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On a Bangkok stopover en route to Manila, he’d bought a number of Thai music cassettes, which he played over and over again at night while he was going over games. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This may take some practice if you're not used to it, but it can be useful practice for anyone who is learning about music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then it would be time to get dressed and face the music, so to speak, but not yet. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In the laboratory the girls from Dora’s heard the Plain Songs and Gregorian music for the first time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pentatonic scales are often associated with eastern Asia, but many other music traditions also use them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She knows I am deaf but she thinks I know about music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I tried to defy the overwhelming never once, when I realized there are songs in my own music library that I will probably never hear again. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Then everybody began to holler at the music because the man couldn’t play but three pieces. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Like the modal musics discussed above, individual Indian ragas are associated with specific moods. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When a composer writes a forte into a part, followed by a piano, the intent is for the music to be loud, and then suddenly quiet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And as the old house had been when his mother was alive, the new house was always filled with music. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But the process of inventing new ways of fusing Western and Non-Western music continues today in countries all over the world. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then static for a few beats, like a rest in a piece of music. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I'm caught up in the music—just totally lost to it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The music got real soft, and the backup singers were silent, and even the audience was hushed. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Hussey kept his toothbrush, and Shackleton ordered him to keep the banjo, because they would need the comfort of music in the hard months ahead. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They immediately respond to music either appreciating or criticizing what they hear. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When they came for me, I was rehearsing Bach's St. Matthew Passion, but even in German I understood nothing except the language of music. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“He's the one,” I asked, checking, “who wrote that incredible music?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I push the thought away, concentrating on the pulse of the music and the stirring blond beauty before me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man standing in the aisle began to dance to the music. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From backstage, the music begins and blasts through the speakers, and the audience creates a rumbling applause. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A “major key” music piece communicates cheer, while a “minor key” mirrors grief. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The music is very funky, not like the straight-up gangsta rap music I usually hear in the neighborhood, although there is a lot of cursing. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Mrs. Harper passed out the sheet music to “I Could Have Danced All Night,” I didn’t remember the candy stealing or the freezing-cold showers. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Doc heard music in his head—violas and cellos, he thought. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s partly my music teacher Ms. Holly’s fault for getting me hooked on it last year when she was trying to get me to sing for our winter recital. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I mean, my twin bed with its deep eggplant bedspread had been made, and the lavender walls where I hung all my artwork between music and movie posters were all still in place. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was blood the crowds came for: death, dismemberment, and shrieks of agony, the music of the scarlet sands. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was one of them, really, blithe and girlish in her manner and her tastes—video games, Harry Potter, the baffling pop music they listened to. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It is far and away the most ambitious undertaking in the history of European music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At school, my friends began to taunt me for liking classical music. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The real Romani of nineteenth-century central Europe, whose fundamental ethnic origins were Indian, kept their own music to themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And the music that came out wasn't...it wasn't classical, but... Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I heard the music start inside the building, some song I didn’t know. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Western music, being more orientated towards harmony than its non-Western counterparts, gradually formed hierarchies among the twelve notes, so that the listener's ears latched on to a 'home' in the sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“The bar where I come from played music all the time to try and drown out the Noise.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She danced wildly and beautifully and in perfect time, though she had no music to go by. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Young students were accordingly expected to learn an instrument and perform music daily, alongside gymnastics. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There’s live music, a pop act that owed June a personal favor, and they’re covering “American Girl” right now, so Alex grabs June’s hand and spins her onto the dance floor. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I joined a group of about twenty students from different grades, set off in a self-contained classroom apart from the rest of the school with our own recess, lunch, music, and gym schedules. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Loud music plays upstairs and the TV blares downstairs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But written music is very useful, for many of the same reasons that written words are useful. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And Kino’s own music was in his head, the music of the enemy, low and pulsing, nearly asleep. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, she took me down to the import section and told me about “real” alternative music. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And Genie tried to come up with a question to ask to get Grandma to turn the music down. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Wheel You walk into the library, glance over at the music section. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

He had wanted her to have the music he had. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I do the normal post-breakup things—eating ice cream out of the carton, listening to better-off-without-him music, choosing a new profile photo for my Facebook page. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The red fern wavered and danced to the music of the hills. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to dance to this music in my head, but when I took a step, I tumbled into the creek with a wild splash. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The music acts as a stimulus to which the body responds, after which sensation returns to the brain to form emotions, which deepens the significance of the experience. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

How her lips moved almost imperceptibly as she unconsciously sang along with the music. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Chiron had to break up a fight,” Luke shouted to me over the music. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the car radio he played with relish the twang-twang blues type of music and his TV preferences were westerns. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

What are the musical aesthetics of that music? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They circled the neighborhood of the music venue looking for street parking. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Normally, I wouldn’t have heard him come in over the music, but he didn’t tiptoe up the steps and slip into his bedroom like I would’ve done if I stayed out way later than usual. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Angel at first refused to notice, but as the beauty of the music grew in intensity, all of the pain and memories of her past grew within her. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This whole therapy thing has become a lot less awful since it started involving listening to music and staring out the window. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say anything, just kept nodding to the music. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It cost five dollars from the Talking Machine Department at Sears, Roebuck and Co., and he’d ordered a dozen “best and loudest music records” to play on it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At home, children are exposed to a family’s musical heritage, which may contain music unfamiliar to those in their dominant culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

And when the music started again and they began to move, they rode all the way to Yarmouth and back, because that was the place they both wanted most to see. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The wind coming off the prairie had been strong all day, sometimes gusting wildly, and leaves scuttled along the street; the sound of laughter and fiddle music drifted through the night. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the four corners of the music room, there’s only me and Mrs. Walton and gospel music rattling through my bones. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’d told her that I would help her with her music score, but the music usually comes after the filming, and she hasn’t done that yet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once the concert started she was able to shut out all thoughts about her mother and El Genius and just disappear into the music. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Later that night I fit the rest of the runes to music. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was as radical a formula for music as it would be for a language if you ruled that no letter of the alphabet could be used more than once in a sentence. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The music’s louder and now I recognize the tune. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Darius turns down the music and asks if I’m feeling okay. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Rice tapped his baton on his music stand to restore order. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just listened to the music on the tape player. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the living room, I heard music. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When Guy Greco ended the music, howls of protest greeted him. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

This is called the form of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They have to shout a little over the music. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Loud music can be bad for you. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always kill.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

My uncle was in the city, playing music with some friends of his from college. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Smoke filled the crowded room and the music stopped and the students dancing stopped and the DJ told them to quickly leave the building. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Whenever Angel felt sad, or guilty, or afraid, music and dancing made her feel whole again. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as if none of this was a big deal, Becca turned back to her conversation—a ditzy discussion about music in space—and I turned back to my salmon teriyaki. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Madame Rubenstein comes from the music conservatory at the University of Cincinnati. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He came big, he came strong, he came with yellow eyes, flaring nostrils, and he came with his own music. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That summer, right up until the warm weather faded, we developed this odd way of listening to music together in the fields. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You smoke crack?” she asked, turning to face me, swinging her hips to the music. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was as if I were suddenly back in my element, searching for the right words, hearing the music of language once again. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She used to play—oh, she’d loved to play, loved music, the way music could break and heal and make everything seem possible and heroic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Fred’s music was tucked away in a storage case, except for a smaller case on top of the stereo that held maybe a dozen CDs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

After a while, I stuck my earbuds in and turned the music up really loud. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He taught them good music without letting them know it was good. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I, of course, did have to sit music out today, since there was no trombone left for me to play. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was a particular favorite of Miss Flatebo, the music teacher. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the safest thing to do at the outset, if technology permits, is to send music. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laura began to float away on the music, and then she heard a clattering noise, and there was Ma by the stove, getting breakfast. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last Mrs. Popper got to the end of the music and took off her gloves. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

NOTE: Not all music has beats and a time signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But how am I supposed to even talk to Morgan, let alone make music with her? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I clicked my pencil case shut and the music stopped. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was a party across the lawn, and laughter and music floated through the night air. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.83: The performance of an accent depends on the style of music, but in general, sforzando and fortepiano accents involve a loud beginning to a longer note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But here among my own less inhibited people, I discovered it was simply letting your feet, hands and body spontaneously act out whatever impulses were stirred by the music. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

An experimental study of the effects of improvisation on the development of children’s creative thinking in music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Most traditional Protestant hymns and most "barbershop quartet" music is in this category. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A few fairies played among the chimes, making soft music. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Each major section of the music is labelled with a letter; for example, the first section is the A section. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Three of us among the servants made a little consort of music—I on the violin, an indentured Irishman who also played the fiddle, and a slave from another house who played the flageolet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the still night the monotonous scattering music of the skating rink could be heard from many blocks away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We hit some traffic as we got into the city, and Darius was playing the most boring music ever. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In my house, eating is an event accompanied by the right music and the right wine. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The scents, the music, the quality of the light. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Someone was being a DJ and broadcasting tracks on the feed, so we tuned in, because otherwise you just hear the shuffling while people are moving around with no music on the floor. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see he expected something more and I said, “Well, it was a nice parade, good music too.’ Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it finally sank in that he wasn’t coming back, I lugged my guitar into the music store, where the manager led me to my teacher, a perfectly formed midget named Mister Mancini. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Charles thought about it while ticktock music played. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The harmonic series is not just a useful idea constructed by music theory; it is often found in "real life," in the real-world physics of musical sounds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They were laughter on hot city nights hot milk on cold city mornings, good food and good times fancy dancing and soul music. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then the music ended, and Jeffrey went right on screaming, his face bright red by now, his neck bulging. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

How queer the instruments looked in the gallery, the little stands for the music, the big drum. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cuban music started playing, and someone brought out snacks. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then things get real quiet even though the beat coming from the music in the store switches from mellow bachata to earsplitting salsa. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In The Stolen Prince I was the property man, and I also played a pennywhistle, in an imitation of Japanese music, for atmosphere. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The music got louder and louder as I came near the merry-go-round. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Musical activities such as singing, singing/vocalization, instrument play, movement/dance, musical improvisation, songwriting/composition, and listening to music, are types of musical therapy interventions to assess and help individuals practice identified skills. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

"Well, except he's a baritone," Jane says, her music pretension apparently extending even to the world of opera. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“We could have some wicked cool workshops — writing, film, science, music, consciousness-raising. “ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Is that proper, do you think? Wouldn’t that make this into some kind of topsy-turvy, wrong-headed world if a king played music for a bug?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

They stuffed themselves silly, then collapsed and listened to polka music. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are we going to a soul music concert? Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

This reminded me of Mom and how she called punk music “a racket.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to see the other kids walking into the music school with their instruments. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was pounding her way through a song by Bach, and I felt sorry for Bach because Miss Lulu’s heart was clearly not involved with the music at all. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Technology has helped to alter the balance of the musical experience, favoring music listening over music making. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music got cranked up, subwoofers so loud it made our boat vibrate. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As the rise of recording pushed aside traditional music, some musicians made a point of recording traditional folk songs, so they would not be lost altogether. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

One of Dad’s music buddies who’d moved to Seattle had gotten his girlfriend pregnant, so they were doing the shotgun thing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was a music festival with no music? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“But it’s easy again. The music doesn’t stop in my hands any more, it just—” I struggled to explain, then shrugged. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In that sense, the book will address how children use music outside of the classroom. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She would turn the music up really loud and dance through the apartment, with Tiger her only audience. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most people do not know which music is from which period. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He shot his two-hand set in a soft, spinning arc that, when true, snapped through the net in a swishing voice that is the purest music of the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the processions were accompanied by music and dancing, for in the midst of the sorrow there was happiness that the death had taken place in Varanasi. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Also, I had to memorize a piece of music. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

So perhaps you are reading this as a young man and wondering what on earth your abuelo is doing, leaving you a box full of letters and music and poetry. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This chapter addresses the issue of several types of musical inclusion, including music and gender, and music for children with autism, ADD/ADHD, learning and physical disabilities. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Could it be that a population of teenagers, almost all of them male, were inspired to develop their own music as a way to speak, to compete, to announce who they were to the world? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She seemed to be too absorbed in the music to realize what I was doing. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The source of the music was none other than a Brylcreemed Orpheus who lived directly behind her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The notes burst from her fingers, staggering at first, but then more confidently as the emotion in the music took over. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The power of musical play: The value of play-based, child-centered curriculum in early childhood music education. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The vast paintings churned and swayed in time with the music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Ironically, there was great concern at the time regarding these special music teachers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This was where he kept the music he wanted to listen to most. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, church music was a rather more sombre affair, and the ordinary churchgoer prior to the Protestant Reformation is likely to have found singing in church a miserable, largely non- partidpatory activity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Her ankles flopped against the hardwood, and she bent her arms into a pillow under her head and slept, the bass from the music drumming into her bones through the floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He joined the glee club and relished the opportunity it gave him to sing and perform in plays and make music. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Appealing though this laissez-faire undoubtedly was, especially for amateur musicians, it resulted in instrumental music that did not make great demands on players, their instruments, or indeed composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The result is that each raga is a collection of melodic scales, phrases, motifs, and ornaments, that may be used together to construct music in that raga. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed to him that he would never hear again a running water so beautiful, for ever blending its innumerable notes in an endless changeful music. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This type of processing may have implications for teaching, and awareness of the brain’s reaction to music can help inform teaching strategies and techniques. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Grover hustled us down the hall in the direction of the music. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

‘Every dream in the world is making a different sort of buzzy-hum music. And these grand swashboggling ears of mine is able to read that music.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children are capable of appreciating beauty in art, music, language, and movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They offered to play a tribute, but Ms. Byrd thanked them kindly and firmly and said, “No blues music of any kind.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She willed herself to calm down, felt the excitement of the crowd, the wild thrash of her brother’s music. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

And being able to "see the big picture" does help the listener enjoy the music even more. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I interacted with people on only the most basic, perfunctory levels, and otherwise spent most of my time listening to music. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Caroline turns off the music, and we just stand there for a moment, looking at each other. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I’ve tried everything, too—counting sheep, counting kittens, drinking hot milk, listening to relaxing music—but nothing helps. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The interweaving, flowing lines of equal voices began to make way for a new and fashionable triumvirate in music: tune, accompanying chords, and supporting bass. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Freak rolls his eyes and goes, "Ah, music, how it calms the savage beast." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then, from far away, there came the sound of music. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

If life were a movie, this was the part where you’d start the music montage. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Or how I was obsessed with Passion Pit in middle school, and then I realized it wasn't really about the music. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But he spent most of his time off lying on the bed in his tiny room, listening to classical music and thinking. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights are dim, the music is loud, and Rhiannon is hard to find. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In his head he heard only the dark music of the enemy. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my samba music filled the arena, the crowd began to clap in time with the beat. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton is a good music teacher and all, but Pop Pop is really the one who gave me my first vocal lessons. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Across the pastures, the incredible vulgarity of highly amplified hillbilly music drifted from the cafe on the highway. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbert even entertained the idea of getting into music and bought a slide trombone at a pawnshop. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Except for soft laughter, the music covered all sound in the room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with the granddaughter, she looked straight ahead and bobbed her head to the music, clapping and singing just like everybody else. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Lost?” she asks loudly over the music, like she’s talking to a five-year-old. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

For more advanced practice, look for music theory books that focus entirely on harmony or that spend plenty of time analyzing harmonies in real music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then when Nick went to preschool, he learned that if he wanted his teacher and the other kids to understand him, he had to use the word music. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The announcer abruptly interrupts the music to report on a telephone message received from Grovers Mill. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

It crawls like a maggot into my head and gets stuck, unwelcome lyrics and music playing on a loop. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The place was queer, so was the music, so were the clothes and the goitres and the skin diseases and the old people. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the loud music, you shouted to me, “Don’t worry about it.” Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

My ‘long-horned’ relatives, the ones who have long curvy feelers coming out of their heads, make their music simply by rubbing the edges of their two top wings together. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Kelli picked up a music stand and swiped a row of clarinets and flutes. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Nico knows how to make music. Like how to produce songs. And he’s showing me how.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

However, if the entire class likes background music, try to play the same baroque music during the test that was used during the original presentation of the material: it acts as an auditory memory cue. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“You might try singing. No one knows why, but sheep fancy music. They do.” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I dropped my eyes to the floor and heard the slow music of the dirge, louder for a moment, then soft again. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Get people books and music that they want when they’re in there. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

They respond to music and learn through music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Welles wore headphones so that he could hear all the voices, music, and sound effects. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Children who had previously made music together were significantly more likely to spontaneously help each other than those who had not. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Their hands move gracefully in unison, their bodies sway and twirl to the rhythm of the music. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever you think of him, you cannot escape the fact that virtually everything that happened in nineteenth-century music in some way began with Beethoven. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When I get in, classical music plays quietly. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Through the front window you could see a piece of music titled “Beautiful Ohio” sitting on the music rest. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The violin music came to an abrupt halt. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He has a metrically organised rhythmic structure, able to support the shape of the words of a poem, successfully allowing important stress syllables or rhymes to fall at the appropriate point in the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It might even have a hazy desire for music or crossword puzzles. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some described being transferred between bases eight or more times in as many years, in each instance needing to start over in settling their children into things like music lessons or enrichment programs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Sit down, pretty lady!” he called over the music. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This would be a good place to start learning more on the subject of modern folk music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I may only be twelve, but I’ve already fallen in love once—with music. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As her talents developed, so did family resistance to her taking up music as a career. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I roll the volume up until faint, stringy guitar music slips past the headphones into the waiting room. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the music brought joy even as the notes evaporated, and playing a rag exhilarated everyone to the point of jumping around the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The screaming notes of the music turn back on. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was late, and I needed to get to bed, but the moment was too good to let pass, so I remained in the car listening to the music. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This part of the act was very wild and noisy in spite of Mrs. Popper’s delicate music. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

So here are a few terms that may be useful if you are wondering what kind of music you want to learn more about. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

During practice sessions my sisters and I would eat potato chips, scowling at our hated instruments and speculating on the lives of our music teachers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fabian understands why music is so hard for me, but will Ms. Parker? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mig, as you can imagine, wasn’t much of a singer, more of a bellower, really But in her little song, there was, to the rightly tuned ear, a certain kind of music. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Whatever had been there, the music, the currents of air that had moved so restlessly that day, was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like this heartbeat; it’s where the music is stitched together. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was very real in his arms as they danced lightly to the music. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll need these to pay for music and food,” he explained, signing the first twelve checks on the spot. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Instead, I programmed a selection of classic ’80s TV shows, retro commercials, cartoons, music videos, and movies. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For example, because improvising music is far more complex than imitating basic patterns, the latter is required in order to perform the former. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

One day I pointed to music and bad and stinky, then I started laughing. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Everyone shouted and clapped, drowning out the music. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She cleaned up the mess with a sigh and left me with my music and an empty spot on my table. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“If I did not study music,” he wrote, “there would be no Macintosh computers.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I want a piano—I want to take music lessons, she said to herself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was through her that Moss had discovered bands like Bad Brains and Death, and she never made him feel inferior for listening to other kinds of music. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A rest stands for a silence in music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Walking home alone, I hear music in my boots: step, step, and step-and-step. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

After an hour, Mama is lost in the music and Papa dozes in his chair. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On some I tried to capture his voice, using the symbols of music. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a queer thing about this music she had heard last autumn. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But not the same as in the last summer when she walked in the dark by herself and listened to the music and made plans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Also on whether I decree that you're my pet, I mentally added as I inched my music stand away from Callum’s. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I find my mom and dad in the family room, my dad listening to music on his headphones, my mom grading papers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The music can suddenly emphasize the weaker beats of the measure, or it can even emphasize notes that are not on the beat at all. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But all they play is a program of organ music that reminds me of High Mass at the cathedral and has the same effect. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

They were weary men and they dug silently and there was no music. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For, through the twilight sounds of crickets and sighing trees, a faint, surprising wisp of music came floating to them, and all three turned toward it, toward the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for the hot dogs, she put in a cassette and turned the music up loud. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the absence of surviving notation of the music performed with the plays of Aristophanes and others, we must once again resign ourselves to frustration and speculation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Some people have lives; some people have music. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

That’s not because the music is quieter, of course, but simply that your position relative to it has changed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He adjusted a lever and the thin jangle of mechanical music began. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We told Mr. Fabian and Mr. Skerritt you would go to music class.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She loved music and had talent, and she played the piano, sang, and performed, in school and at home. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The hip-hop music cuts off abruptly, followed by quiet applause, and I say too loudly, “If Mom has already disowned you, what’s the worst thing that could happen here?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

We found a quiet spot by the hammock, where the music was loud enough to hear but didn’t drown out our conversation—though we were both too focused on eating to talk much. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"On the morrow, you shall feast upon peacock and lark's tongue, and hear music worthy of the most beautiful of women. The Thirteen will come to do you homage, and all the great of Qarth." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Classical music is a confusing term with more than one meaning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They had spread a blanket near a fire and hung a lantern on a tree and they sat around the blanket slapping bugs in die dark, surrounded by campfires, laughter and music. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Select three of the terms from either list and give an example of how you might use that term to illustrate music concepts in addition to either a math or literacy concept. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Then the boats would be past and the lights would be gone from the window and the music would be goin' too. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up to then I thought the only music was American pop and African vibes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deed said, “Well, it’s too late for them to say anything then, it’s us or no music.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I turn up the music—a moody folk song I don’t recognize. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“So can I. But that passage is lovely and it’s because of the terza rima. The music of it. The trimeter tolls through that speech of Klytemnestra’s like a bell.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted a music career, and so I wanted to learn about the organ and xylophone and become a fully prepared musician. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But you can hurry him along. You can help him dwell on the good things: his adventures, the women, the fighting, his travels, his music. . . .” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My love of music, and my desire to study it, had been compatible with my idea of what a woman is. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I just didn’t know. It never dawned on me that music was like this. I think I was eleven or twelve, and that was that. Music opened the door.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In most styles of music, modulation is accomplished gradually, using a progression of chords that seems to move naturally towards the new key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Now we’re walking in the parking lot where they play loud music in the summertime. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or how about the two brothers who get on with bongo drums to provide some theme music for the ride. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We listen to some music off my iPhone, the speaker tinny. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Let’s go listen to some music at Spins & Needles Records. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It seems crazy since Roli is clearly of the pocket protector variety, even if he does like to listen to his music loud. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Currently, she tours as a backup singer for country music star Brent Chisholm. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

By then he could hear distant music, and he knew it was time to change for the feast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Oh! it will be very fine; all my best of everything—crystal, silver and gold, Sèvres, flowers, music, and champagne to swim in. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

A great crowd was gathered around the platform, but there was no music, no movement. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She’d had so many throat infections that the smell of it—“pink drink,” her father called it—became part of her childhood, like music she barely noticed during a scene in a movie. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He seems not to have liked music, which was a most important part of a Greek boy’s training, or else he disliked his music master. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Bad Air is still around with his music and his dancing and his diversity, and I'll be up and around with mine. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, for Italians, the supreme expression of their love of music was the emotionally charged operatic aria, for Russians it was dance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There can be no performance of a piece of music that has had so powerfully symbolic an impact as on that night in August 1942 in Leningrad. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then my father’s voice spoke over the rise and fall of the music. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The placement of the sounds in time is the rhythm of a piece of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Yet, unlike the music itself, the echoes from the hills sang less of fear than of grief. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

We all went to an Iranian café with flags and loud music. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Other types of music, such as traditional Western African drumming, may have very complex meters that can be difficult for the beginner to identify. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the music would be classical: Brahms, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, or Bach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a concept that survives to this day in the music of the bagpipe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I know, I saw it before and recognize the music and wish I could go sit on the plastic couch with Ernie and the baby, but now my fortune begins. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing the music the world makes has no words, he stood rock still and scanned his surroundings. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved everything about it: the music, the moves, even the history. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she pops the tape in the player, classical music pours out of the speakers. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Turning around, Dimple put her hands on his elbows and leaned in so he could hear her over the thumping music. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I have nothing better to do after dinner, so I finish my homework, complete a couple of pages in my music theory workbook, and go to bed at the same time as Malia. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her voice sounds a little like voices do when you try to talk underwater, but now it’s music to my ears. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And like everybody else in Marshall, I heard music in church on Sunday, not in clubs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They experience background music in computer games, cartoons, TV shows, films, on iPads, radios, and ringtones. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He scrolls his phone for some music to pass the time. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Later, lying on the couch at his home in Raleigh with music blaring from the stereo, he replayed the events of that evening across the screen of his closed eyes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thralls were pouring ale, and there was music, fiddles and skins and drums. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The music came from a cassette recorder on the grass beside the wooden deck chair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And the music of the pearl had merged with the music of the family so that one beautified the other. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although there were elements of tragedy and struggle in the Fifth Symphony, he had read, it was principally music of love and happiness. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, vocal music is more likely to be described as polyphony and instrumental music is more likely to be described as counterpoint. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

To Madame Ratignolle he said the music dispensed at her soirées was too “heavy,” too far beyond his untrained comprehension. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

“The San Antonio River. It flows lazy, through downtown. The River Walk, it’s called. Weekends, there’s partying. People in small boats, some eating, drinking by the river. All kinds of music. Mariachi, jazz, pop.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“It was on account of the music,” he said. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she sat in the living room or outside on the patio she never read or listened to music. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their music lives on, thanks in great part to Iranians everywhere. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The sound of the wheels on the train tracks became a music that soothed him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

She was a demanding, witty, spry woman who was the first white person I ever had an ongoing dialogue with about music and literature, which she enjoyed greatly. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shut out the music from the feed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tapped Michaels shoulder and asked him to turn on his music. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I knew the music couldn't be heard outside the car. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The music for “Goin Up Yonder” starts, and I see TJ stand up from the tenor row and stop at the soprano row. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I notice what they wear and what they eat, what music they listen to, the cars they dream about, and the movie stars they follow. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

On arrival, however, he learned that all the club had provided for music was a lone pianist who had no idea what kind of piece might accompany such an exotic dance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I had walked past her church before and heard music spilling from the falling-down clapboard building; the spirited singing and proclamations of joy emerging from it beat the other churches all hollow, to my mind. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great ton-load of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium, and brass. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into years before, when my hands had calluses like stones and my music had come as easy as breathing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now, as I drew closer, the faint strains of organ music caught my ears. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Marxism’s call to revolutionary action was music to the ears of a freedom fighter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the windows were open and she could hear the music very marvelous. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to prove that people can change their mood through music.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sounds of music and song spilled through the open windows behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We would go out to the clubs, listen to the music, dance, and do some gambling. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead, beyond the curve of the path, they could already hear music—flutes and fiddles—from the gathering place where celebrations were held. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe I’m the fish out of water, because no one told me that we were going to some sort of art and music festival for white people. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A web search for classical music from a particular country may turn up some sound clips. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I arrived in my neighbor’s kitchen, my backpack slung over my shoulder, ready to test my theory that music could fix Dad’s mood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We leave the tree house, run quickly through the night to get back to the light of the house, the music we’ve left behind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sharpe could not abide music; something in its vibrations agitated his animal spirits and contributed to his peevish disposition. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The truth is that we all know a great deal about music through enculturation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I still felt like I was floating, the Star Wars hero music in my head. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

His greatest legacy to music, though, is the inspiration he provided for his young colleague, and possibly pupil, Perotin. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Like the ending of a story, an ending in music is more satisfying if it follows certain customs that the listener expects to hear. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Young single men go out for drinks, to the theater, to shows with music and dancing girls. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He fiddled with the controls, turning the heater up and the music down. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But boy howdy, I had my arms around her and she was looking up at me, smiling, while Grandpa watched us and beat time to the music. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve never experienced anything like it, but I knew that the entire point of playing music was to hope that once in a while you could bring this feeling to an audience of people. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor had just begun lessons at school when his dad had dropped out of sight and become a prisoner of the rats who probably hated music. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, full-stop ends come only at the end of the main sections of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The awkwardness of it all makes me even more antsy to listen to music, to hide away with something that has always been very solitary for me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I can almost hear the suspenseful music playing, just like in a MacGyver episode right before something explodes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Granger Gazette and the yearbook shared an office down in the basement near the music rooms. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Similarly mournful love songs were cropping up all over Europe during this period, their woeful lyrics gaining popularity in courts, noble houses, and other places where a sheet of printed music could be afforded. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Many longer works of music, such as symphony movements, have more than one melodic theme. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Link gets on a Zoom bar mitzvah lesson, and we have to turn off the music so he can hear his rabbi. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But I tell myself it’s from the thrill of producing original music and nothing else. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

For the music to be over so soon. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Composers at the very cutting-edge of change are rarely the ones whose music lasts longest. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We w ould form a small band of music and play songs requested by our fellows. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was wary of how sometimes when the music tugged, you might suddenly be next to a man and you didn’t know what he might do. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She reached distractedly into the pocket of her skirt and took out the music box and, without thinking, twisted the winding key with trembling fingers. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then one day Milton came home with some new reeds from the music store. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It empowered and spread forms of music that had developed without notation, making available to a mass audience folk and ethnic music that had up to then been confined to local communities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They get in and out of cars, whisde at friends, and glide along the sidewalk on shoes with heels as loud fast music blares from speakers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or at best a confused motivation, as with Liszt’s well-intentioned misunderstanding of Romani music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The young musicians in modern conservatoires, music colleges and universities study in an environment that fosters respect for and engagement with a multitude of genres and traditions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“We could drop it off in the music room,” I say with the most casual shrug I can muster. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

IT beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard the music before we even got to Gloria Dump’s house. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The music stopped and we started toward the table where the count sat. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ms. Holly also gave me blank sheet music and encouraged me to compose original songs on the piano. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Props are missing and people wander around partially in costume, and the various Creekwood music prodigies are in the orchestra pit running through the overture. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Marian stayed on at Marianna for Marian Anderson received some fifty honorary degrees, beginning with her doctorate of music from Howard University in 1938. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

By Sunday morning all I wished for, besides going back home, was to be left alone with my music, my zine supplies, and my denial that school was starting. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The service passed in a blur of tears and music, and afterwards, people started filling Albert’s house. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Olanna was startled when she first heard the melancholy tones, music so pure and so confidently played that it charged the air and held the swaying banana trees still. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Zu had been sitting right behind him, moving in time with the music, her entire body rocking out to the wailing electric guitar. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Faded holy cards for Saint Cecilia, patron of music; Saint Francis of Assisi, patron of the animals; and Saint Benedict the Moor, patron of dark peoples; Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We don't listen to any music on the drive home. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

While music listening is wonderful for our brains, it turns out that music performance is really where the fireworks happen. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Schulwerk uses the native language, sounds, timbres, rhythms, melodies, and tonal material surrounding the child, particularly in its folk music repertoire. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s a good slave, he says, in the ballroom, with all the people and the music. Gotta jump on it.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also features a products page with apps people can buy to practice and use music on the go via their smartphones. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It made all the fast-paced punk songs Dad normally listened to sound like harp music. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until they were inside with the door closed that Matt realized they were in the music room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ethan, who never said much, had a lot to say about the camera angles and background music and described the star's performance as subtle. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re hurting me,” she gasped, but he would not stop moving until they were well removed from that place and she could no longer hear the intoxicating music. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the prettiest music I have ever heard in my life. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Popular music is, by definition, music that appeals to many people. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

More modern Western music, on the other hand, does not sound pleasant using Pythagorean intonation. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The distinctive Cuban dimension in Latin American music that so inspired Stevie Wonder and others had only really escaped from its island home at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So when I slipped my headphones over my ears, I turned the music up until bass strings thumped, cymbals hissed, and guitar strings squealed like they were having a conversation with each other. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Her one asset is music, so our father hired her as Starry's music teacher. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My feet are heavy as I trudge behind her, and while I hear the beat of the music, my body isn’t interested in moving to it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

To Welles’s left, the orchestra sat on chairs facing Herrmann, who was ready to conduct when Welles cued music. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Are you able to concentrate with this type of music in the background? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The car radio was tuned to dance music when a newsflash interrupted. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When the song is over, she rolls down her window and trails her hand in the air, introducing a new music into the car. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He took some music from a chair near the pianoforte, and turning to Emma, said, Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Matt could read and write, climb hills, play music, and do anything a real human might do—all because El Patron loved him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the news went to commercial, the ad jingle was a piece of classical music. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The organ music accompanied our walk down the aisle and out of the church. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

That is the way my mom finds us when she gets off the boat, her music bag over her shoulder. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song also provides the music for two other very famous songs, “Baa, Baa Black Sheep” and the “A-B-C” song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t add that the idea of a forever without my daddy seemed to me like music without sound. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Robert's sextet is now impossible to buy. You encounter his music only by serendipity in vicarages in July afternoons. This is your one chance in your life. You can work this gramophone?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

If you're not certain what chord is wanted, you can get useful clues both from the notes in the music and from the other chord symbols used. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

In Miserere mei he repeatedly causes the flow of the music to come to rest on cadences, affirming its centre of gravity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Once you were inside you could stay as long as you wished, and listen to as much music as you liked. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“How do you learn all the proper ways? I never can. Isn’t that music gay?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music was still playing as we turned into the drive of Tilney’s Hotel. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to me that the music was not for me but to impress the Mehtas’ friends. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We turn to music to feel better, relieve anxiety, overcome a difficult situation, find calm and peace, or feel empowered and fearless. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When the music stopped and the dance ended, Mom burst into applause. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Its constant music and the cooler air around it always soothed her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Both groups would blast their music as loud as they could—the Temptations and Marvin Gaye trying to drown out Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was my music teacher at Ann Street School and the only black teacher there at the time.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I felt an outgush of warm air and heard country music from a radio when she opened. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The difference would be, the person making the list would have to care enough, and listen hard enough, to hear the music playing in the people passing through their life. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Yet the age of technology and communication has also made music a much more open exchange between maker and listener. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I’m sad now, the way we’re talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, an echo of an echo. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of noteworthy Greek dramas are even about music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When they got to the music concourse, the jazz was already in full swing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The music fills us up, swirling warm and low, pushing away all the other subway noises. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

With such confidence and no awkwardness at all, Lucas had mentioned my brother as if he were merely inside the house listening to music or watching TV or writing down song lyrics. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He has worked part-time as a stock clerk, but he is pinning his hopes on his rap music, which his exasperated mother admits is pretty good. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The hall rang with music and laughter, though the cold winds were rising outside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hollered, but they didn’t even hear me, because they were playing music too loud and cracking up too much. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What? Like an artistic music video?” he asks. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The music and the dancing were going on. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

This time it was music sincerely felt, not rendered for the guests, but for themselves; a song of hope and exaltation. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This includes most types of rock music and some kinds of jazz. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I end up playing around on my phone, refreshing my email and watching music videos on YouTube. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Harry ran down the corridor, the noise of his feet masked by the music and loud talk still issuing from Slughorn’s office behind him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Sorry,” we both say as Spike makes a big show of turning down the music. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Worlds of music: An introduction to the music of the world’s people. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He hears the music playing outside and starts shaking around like a fool. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I hope to catch a glimpse of the very tops of the tall buildings, but the car is moving too fast—with its fancy seats, too-loud music, and the scent of shiny new things. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Both were saved: the cobra from a life of servitude and bad music, and the man from a possible death bite. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even my mother, who generally steered clear of public appearances, always made her way down to the state floor anytime music was playing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Chocolate cake and Coke and music and seeing his sisters look young and beautiful were all miracles. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The lighted windows and the music and the terrified, disbelieving look on a cat’s face when he was vanquished? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The music shifts to a song that she’d chosen for herself. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had been playing an instrument ever since the fourth grade, when his mother enrolled him in music class. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Black music adds soul and rhythm to my world. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s Saturday,” I said with a grin as I lay spread out on the sofa, coloring book in my lap, blasting music. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Like that which cycles through Pachelbel’s ‘Canon’, these sequences were driven by the direction of travel of the bass line, giving forward momentum to the music, hence the name ‘harmonic progression’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My head spun for a moment, and the music hopped and swirled. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I Got My Nickname I’m not that big on jazz music, but Dad is. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The auditory cortex has areas that process pitch, while other areas of the brain combine biology and culture to stimulate the limbic system to respond emotionally to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

His dignified compassion in the face of life’s challenges makes his music irresistible, even when it is tranquil. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The music was sounding orangey and yellowish as I listened, and the faint whiff of lemons seemed to surround me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Eurhythmics awakens the physical, aural, and visual images of music in the mind. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chong, whom I secretly nicknamed Old Chong, was very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of an invisible orchestra. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One great shift in consort music made by Corelli and his imitators from the 1680s onwards was to strip back its traditionally contrapuntal texture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Where are we? Are we in Haven? And what’s that music?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I like the flute music that I had to write on at the end. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“How else can you explain these houses, the iron deer, the pianos, the music?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after a performance, when she went back to her hotel room, she would look over the music to see where a certain song, or a passage in a song, could be sung more effectively. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He billowed out again in the direction of the music, the shower shoes flapping loudly against the soles of his huge feet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, the music and singing are gone. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

You don't have to have any musical training at all to have these expectations; you only need to have grown up in a culture that listens to this kind of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Much Asian and Arabian music has a larger number, as a result of which it often sounds exotic and ‘out of tune’ to Western ears. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

George Pocock would later say that when they heard the strains of the German anthem they began to march deliberately out of step with the music. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Plenty of music has no articulation marks at all, or marks on only a few notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She said when singers posed like that, you knew they were feeling good about their music. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I try to find music in my own head but all I can find is my mother moaning for lemonade. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Tally had no idea what would happen if she got caught. her ring, skipping classes, or tricking the house into playing her music louder than allowed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This intense-repetition type of cyclic form is very common in folk musics around the world and often finds its way into classical and popular musics, too. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Grief is grief, pain is pain, and music, Beethoven seems to be proclaiming, is the art best placed to confront such darkness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Through a friend from high school, he was lucky enough to get to know some people in the music business. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The music is a particularly loud techno song, and she has to nearly scream, “To us!” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Of course we could give it here but it would be pretty hard to surprise him here. And Doc likes his own place. He’s got his music there.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

An online metronome, guitar tuner, blank sheet music, music theory lessons, and music converters are all available at 8notes.com. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Father’s mission had been a success in at least one regard: the Congolese loved our music. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Western tonal music is based on major and minor scales, both of which easily give that strongly tonal feeling. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We Lindy-Hop until the blues leak out of our fingers, until the music ends and shades of sunrise streak the sky. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday night, the New Generation Singers filled the auditorium with their music. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was jazz music coming from the kitchen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A stranger to the music could not have made a distinction between the songs sung a few minutes before and those being danced to in the gay house by the railroad tracks. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marvelous things were piled in every window along the streets downtown, and big organ music made the sidewalks sort of tremble. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Celibidache was a conductor from the old school, an imperious and strong-willed man with very definite ideas about how music ought to be played—and about who ought to play music. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There’s also music playing, and on the kiosks in the plaza, there are gigantic posters of the different cast members. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I would gladly have heard more of her solemnity; but following her performance, the music ceased, the fire was banked up, and conversation became general. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The bugle music touched the room again, a different call. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On our block, whenever anybody had a party, you could hear the music so loud that it sounded like the DJ was in the bed with you. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Now that there was rhythm and music, Train Ear began the show. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

There were lights on the midway, and you could hear the crackle of the gambling machines and the music of the merry-go-round and the voice of the man in the beano booth calling numbers. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Normally, that’s where we settle ourselves to listen to the music and watch all the fun we aren’t supposed to be having. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s not as if the art room she’d been stuck in was right around the corner from the music department, where he’d first spotted her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Somewhere, underlying all the other signals, is a continual music. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Macon felt himself softening under the weight of memory and music, the song died down. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late the next morning, Jam was twisting her hair in her bedroom, smearing whipped shea butter on her palms and applying it in sections while soca music played over her speakers. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If there had been music, it might have been too much to bear. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

By a strange quirk of fate, this ambitious choral composer found himself working in the one building in the world which, by dint of its architecture, was responsible for a new style of choral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From there, it’s a series of crowd-pleasers until midnight, the lights and music blasting at full capacity. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She thought, “When I get home, I’ll tell Granny it wasn’t elf music after all.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great bronze gates to make a strange and fearful music. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was smiling and watching the slaves do a bowing, partner-changing dance to the music of a banjo. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her music reminded Bridge of picking wildflowers—she started with something thin and simple and then kept adding new sounds, all different shapes and colors, until she had something explosive. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The page was crowded with thousands of comments and videos of Nicole, her pageant appearances, student council speeches, tennis matches, mash-up tributes cut to saccharin music. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Then she picks up the remote control for the shelf radio, punches it, and the room fills up with graceful music, Mozart or something. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. My dad’s going to be their middle school music teacher and choir director.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

What’s more, this was Germany, the land where classical music was born. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Airy music is playing, classical piano, floating from speakers in the walls. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean the guy who tries to write music,” she said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The music is like air—light, flowing, and giving me life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a clock on my phone, but it’s been in my pocket since I set my music on repeat. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Western music is very melodically and harmonically oriented, with a continuous rhythmic pulse. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Nhamo stumbled off—the music still made her ears ring—and squatted in the shadows nearby. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fully understanding the racial implications of Parsifal’s message and its pre-eminence in Nazi ideology, it is uncomfortable for us to hear Wagner’s sublime music without wincing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Around the room students riffled through their sheet music. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could almost hear the Star Wars theme music playing in my head as I stood on the stage. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Like a story, a piece of music can come to an end by simply stopping, but most listeners will react to such abruptness with dissatisfaction: the story or music simply "stopped" instead of "ending" properly. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the applause begun than Mr. 13-04, the music- master, bounded out beside the band, held out his hands for silence, and begged the ladies and gentlemen that they should be still. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here, there is more smoke, more alcohol, and the conga drum voices blend with the heavy bass music. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If you are transposing because the music is too low or too high, decide how much higher or lower you want the music to sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I’m drawn to it for a very simple reason: the classical music world had a problem—and they fixed it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Because of the music, the mouse would find his way to a princess. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

What if the legal community took a page from the classical music world? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Of course, we don’t know what the music played on this lyre sounded like, even though we can strum its strings and admire its craftsmanship. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By their reckoning, the music and dancing, the food and punch, all unfolding on the green in the flickering lantern light, were a tonic for the battered soul. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After twenty seconds of music, the announcer interrupts a third time to introduce commentator Carl Phillips, who will conduct the interview. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

They are exposed to the music of their parents and siblings, friends, and relatives, casting a wide net over multiple experiences and genres. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

If a child hears fine music from the day of his birth and learns to play it himself, he develops sensitivity, discipline and endurance. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Although it is significantly expanded from "Introduction to Music Theory," this course still covers only the bare essentials of music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Dicey welcomed the music, but she had wanted to avoid any further contact with them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can always tell—when he pulls them front curtains closed and when he plays that kind of church music on the phonograph.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here we were skimming along a country road out past Cowgills’ Dairy Farm, and we were hearing music being played in the Chicago Loop. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie gave me my own elementary music workbook, which I was thrilled about, and showed me how to position my hands properly over the keys. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The second half of the nineteenth century was, for music, all about destiny too, though since music was dominated by Germans, Italians, Frenchmen and Russians, tragedy triumphed, and it all ended in death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Music Learning Theory explores how we learn when we’re learning music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The faint sound of music drifted through his shuttered window. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Moss turned down his music, and then snuggled into bed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

All around its besieged citadel, live music was booming as never before, but only in genres in which it was acceptable - desirable, even - to move with the times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But some melodies don't imply any harmony; they are not meant to be played with harmony, and don't need it to be legitimate music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

This chapter will offer music suggestions to inspire older children, including cultural games, songs, and dances. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I had other good friends at the music conservatory camp I went to in the summer. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday said, out of breath as she turned down the music. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dray turns down the music and comes out of his car wearing dark sunglasses, a black cap, and a gold-cross chain. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slips out onto the portico without really thinking about it, and the instant the door closes behind him, the music snuffs out into silence, and it’s just him and Henry and the garden. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So when I got to school, I went straight to the band room, hoping to find an extra copy of the sheet music. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They heard strange music as they drew near the shack, like somebody playing a rubber band while clacking castanets. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

This is the last card, I tell myself, but I roll over into sleep again, despite the music of hearts beating in my bed. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Over in Britain, the world’s first national broadcaster, the BBC, came into being in 1922, ushering in an age when music would come to belong to everyone, everywhere, often enjoyed completely for free. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It would be a while before new classical music set the pace of change. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They would speed around campus in that Volkswagen, Ojiugo driving and Nicholas’s arm hanging from the front window, music blaring, bends taken sharply, and once with a friend lodged in the open front boot. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was raised by the music community, with dozens of aunties and uncles who took me in as their own little foundling, even after I started showing a strange preference for classical music. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music teacher, Mrs. Lovelace, had been the first to volunteer to open her class to us. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It has smooth seats and music and air-conditioning—which is an amazing way to make the inside cool, though it's hot outside. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He invented, for example, a player organ: an organ which, like a player piano, automatically played music according to the information conveyed by pins on a turning drum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I took in Kazi’s words, let them dance and twirl in my head, replayed them over and over like a beautiful piece of music. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Spooky funeral music keeps playing on the radio. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

They slipped and the music fell to pieces like a dream on waking. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Was this music putting her into a trance? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They are often called the basic elements of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Head bowed, he was swaying to the music, his face wet and shiny. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the Big House, we found Chiron in his apartment, listening to his favorite 1960s lounge music while he packed his saddlebags. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I try to let the secondhand music and the distant blazing suns and the far-off happiness fill me, but it is not enough. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place seemed to echo with a deep-wilderness sound—tribal music—bamboo flutes and drums and chimes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At present only music was coming out of it, but there was a possibility that at any moment there might be a special bulletin from the Ministry of Peace. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“That music plays all day and all night,” she says, watching me eat. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We fill the air with music as we cook. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He ate his sandwich and sipped his beer and listened to the music. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1993, a study by Rauscher et al. was published, which looked at the possible correlations between listening to different types of music and intelligence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Mom took it to the music store and they put new strings on and tuned it,” I say. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mobile started ringing with the theme music of James Bond. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the realest part of all the summer—her listening to this music on the radio and studying about it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They decided everything without her, what the flowers would be, what the music would be, what color coffin Warren would be placed in: walnut with a blue silk lining. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’m more into music with, like, singing and guitars and stuff.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It is music that one makes oneself, in which one takes part not as a listener, but as a participant. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Our morning music jam with our brother was like our own little dance party before school. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She heard only the music, only the beautiful music. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say a prayer anyway and, when the movie ends, put on music to relax. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

What I’m not in the mood for is sitting at the island, me and Mom on our stools, not talking, not listening to music, not reading. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The music room is always the first place I go. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The stumps of his thighs jerked in time to the music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Well, music. I thought I could teach kids who can’t afford lessons how to play piano. Because music is something that brings everyone together, and it’s a language everyone understands.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

What if no one at school likes the same music I like? The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to her that as it disappeared into the darkness great chords of music came from it and echoed through the air. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It’s like music, somehow, all those pitches, all that rhythm, weaving in and out. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

While modern classical music had its challenges, older music was encountering its own difficulties in the twentieth century, despite - or indeed because of - an explosion in recordings in the 1960s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The music gets louder, and I can feel the bass thumping throughout my body. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Did Baba already talk to him about music like he said he would? Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He’s no longer listening to music, but his tears are loud enough to dance to. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

In front of him a little lady with a feather in her hat, who was enjoying the music, turned around and whispered “Shhhh!” very angrily. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music room is tucked into its own alcove at the end of the hall downstairs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Joints would pass hand to hand as they all listened to the music. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Besides, our music teacher, Miss Brown, was ancient, and her decrepit horse had to pull her gig three miles from Prairie Lea. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A pool table, lit from above by a single yellow bulb, seemed to float over the sticky tile floor between the music and the liquor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Soft music plays from some sort of built-in sound system. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This isn’t the first time Zohra has complained about my “old lady” music. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Music that is in a minor key is sometimes described as sounding more solemn, sad, mysterious, or ominous than music that is in a major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The first side has a lot of songs by the Village People and Blondie because Patrick likes that type of music a lot. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even when I was the most furious at him, I’d never stopped thinking he was great at music. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"We allocated one hundred grams for luxury items. There are some handwritten letters from Mark's family, a note from the President, and a USB drive filled with music from all ages." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw him brighten as he leaned over the computer to fiddle with his music playlist. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Master’s English was music, but what Ugwu was hearing now, from this woman, was magic. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In music, the segments are the individual notes of a line in the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The music swelled out of an organ and boomed through the half-empty arena, sending little shivers up Alfred's spine. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucker twisted the dial until a steady, soft stream of music was coming out. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had there been actual music, or was I hearing it in my head? Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Alter, instead of the fireworks, I want you to listen to the music,” Frankie said. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The house rang with silence, but I didn’t dare suggest music, so I listened to the song my peeler made. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We rented a tape player and some Congolese dance music tapes, and we had a party. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to be a rap producer, but now he only listens to wack elevator music, because, he says, hip-hop is dead. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If the music Bod had heard until then was a prelude, it was a prelude no longer. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A sharp pain rose in Harry’s throat at this sight: For a moment, the strange music and the knowledge that Dumbledore’s body was so close seemed to take all warmth from the day. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mariam saw festive lanterns hanging from shopwindows, heard music blaring from loudspeakers. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We heard warnings about black clothes and white makeup, Goth music, computer addictions. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam said that she used to go out with Dave for a while before she got into punk music, and Patrick said he heard about that party. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lydia let him pick the music on the way home. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wren, my music teacher, was just as annoyed at me for forgetting my trombone as Mrs. Kastor had been about my science paper. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

This was the politically sensitive text Josquin was asked to set to music, in tribute to the Duke of Ferrara's friend. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He tells me about God; I tell him about music—the mysteries of each other's worlds. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sahil’s playing music and seems to be focused on the road, so I’m back. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After that, we came to the quarters every other weekend to study that kind of music on television. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of English, we heard a babble of accents from every corner of the Middle East: slang from Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as some in Farsi—the music store was run by Iranians. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And because we sang every day and Mr. Rice was a gifted teacher, we sang surprisingly well for children who had known little music in their lives. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So that nothing around her existed but the music and the need to create a resonant and pure sound. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But as the night got later, as people showed up and left, and the music got turned down because of the neighbors, and the alcohol flowed and then ran out, I kept seeing Courtney's look. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then abruptly the music stopped and the laughter was checked, and everyone crowded about the newcomers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wet and he tapped his fingers on his knees and moved his head in time to the music. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

June bugs flickered all around, and music notes floated from inside, sounding like a violin, only a lot sadder. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the U.S., unique genres of music that are part of our cultural fabric have developed over the centuries. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music feels too loud and too soft all at once, and underneath its bass line, I can hear Abby breathing. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When you describe the texture of a piece of music, you are describing how much is going on in the music at any given moment. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There is very little in the way of interaction or engagement with the music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music in the hall rose to a crescendo, the beat of drums and the whine of the nadhaswaram so loud, we could catch the sound. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And Kino heard the music of the pearl, distorted and insane. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a kind of music to him when Mr. Leroy was felling trees. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Standing there in the music of the bar mitzvah party, feeling the weight of what had happened in the synagogue, I saw again the glittering stream, with its light rushing toward me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was deeply impressed by field recordings of peasant folk music he had heard in the years before he began composing The Firebird. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But this time the silence was gentle, like a pause in a piece of beautiful music when one melody has ended and another is yet to begin. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Occasionally someone would stand up from his chair and begin to twitch and snap his fingers to the strange music, while his companions laughed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The other townsfolk—rubes, as Uncle Al called them—had already made their way through the menagerie tent and into the big top, which pulsed with frenetic music. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then I remember that one of my books is a piano theory workbook for practicing, recognizing, and writing the notes on sheet music. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Bosley directed a little more money into the program and made sure Volpe had an assistant as well as the energetic support of the music and visual arts departments. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Grandma sat before us with her knitting, nodding her head in time to the music. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Madame Ratignolle he said the music dispensed at her soirees was too “heavy,” too far beyond his untrained comprehension. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

His brother would be done playing his music, and everything could just be normal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In one way, this became the most dangerous music ever written, because, despite being motivated by a devotion to self-denial and compassion, it undoubtedly inspired hatred. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ivanito intuited her movements, dipping her with such reluctant fluidity that the music ached and blossomed around them. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music from the Victrola came to an end. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On either side of me, folks are packing cars to leave, hammering wood over windows, or else standing, sitting on the porch, playing music, drinking liquor like it’s Mardi Gras. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

A few of the peepholes looked into dark closets like the one in the music room. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees are so thick, they’re practically a curtain, and the music sounds like it’s beaming in from another galaxy. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was noisy—cars honking, people shouting, music blaring from somewhere down the street. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He called for music and cane liquor for everyone, to be put on his bill. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Trouble was brewing, and a period that began with fear of Apocalypse was replaced with one in which the Apocalypse might be played out within music itself - by that same firebrand on a Dresden street. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At least three days a week, Monday would hang with me, and we would use the computers to watch music videos on YouTube. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I turn off the music, the resulting quiet is a big relief. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, he was just saying that music is forbidden. I know we don’t agree with that interpretation of Islam, but I couldn’t say anything to him,” Baba mumbles. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I mean, how many houses have flute music playing on the stereo in the middle of the afternoon, and loud? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Teaching the music or arts of that culture is the next step. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This was the music they had all come to hear, a melody that plucked at their feet and fingers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Without him, I would never have mastered the world of music piracy and lived a life of endless McDonald’s. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a reward for playing. Well, it is that, but it’s more an incentive for you to keep practicing, keep getting better. It’s for the sake of the music.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He could hear Juana whispering the old magic again, and he could hear the evil music of the enemy. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She listened to the music, and she thought her own thoughts. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a magical place, alive with music that spilled onto the busy streets from tenement windows and full of colors and smells that filled my senses and made my heart beat faster. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Callie turns the music up when the song changes to a hyper-techno beat and I take that as my cue to sneak into one of the fitting rooms. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“How that music used to make me smile,” I join in. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In friskier moods, she performed lazy pirouettes, as though to the accompaniment of my own music box, which I always brought to the roof to keep me company. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s my parents. They skipped the lullabies and started us with the Beatles, and then worked their way up to Nirvana, which is where their extensive knowledge of music comes to a screeching halt.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Laughter and music drifted up from the parking lot. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Walking quietly down the hallway, I pass the empty nurses’ station and freeze in front of her door, hearing music softly playing on the other side. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But as soon as the music stopped, the sickness crept back into the air. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They talked together in soft voices, oblivious of the mirth and music in the hall about them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Watching my parents dance to Tex-Mex music was my idea of hell. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He flew loosely, slouched in the seat, his fingers lightly on the wheel, and something about him, the way he sat and moved with the music, relaxed Brian. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The expectations for music in a minor key are a little different than for music in a major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The bishop himself, accompanied by two incense bearers, appeared to bless the bird without having been asked, and the police band played happy, unpretentious music that pleased everyone. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But because of these jumpsquiffling ears of mine,’ the BF G said, ‘I is not only able to hear the music that dreams is making but I is understanding it also.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of these things affect how much time the note is given in the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, looks like you know music history. I think that’s great.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In our world, I rank music somewhere between hair ribbons and rainbows in terms of usefulness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He thought about the music at Dr. Meescham’s house, the way the voices sounded, singing. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The music didn’t sound so beautiful to me now—more like the sound track for a funeral. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I listened to the music, relaxing against the light gray leather seat. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She would have a whole symphony orchestra and conduct all of her music herself. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re always welcome here to work on your music. How are you finding ‘Pirate Medley’?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That is one of the things that makes it instantly recognizable as Western music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The one Jessie loved the most was the cartoon demonstrating a sheet music turner. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Individual differences in music listening responses of kindergarten children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music blared and vibrated throughout the building, which was set up like a theater. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I could still hear the country music, softly, could still feel the truck’s warmth, still smell the hot air and coffee and sandwich and cigar smoke. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Hearing Rahim Khan speak Ali’s name was like finding an old dusty music box that hadn’t been opened in years; the melody began to play immediately: Who did you eat today, Babalu? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What is most important? My magic or my music? My triumphs or my follies?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He feared the music teacher would suffer the same fate as Rosa if El Patron found out. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other good news is that it only takes a couple of minutes and a little thought to achieve this, and put some of the basic elements of music to work. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The music starts again once the plates are cleared, and I make my way to the dance floor for “Black Dog” and bang my head, which makes James laugh. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, just as the music, slow and smoky, loads up the air, his smile bright as ever, he wrinkles his nose and turns away. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I was like a live one—music just wound me up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spend the afternoon wandering through downtown Athens—past music venues and into vintage clothing shops, where Abby spends her food money on a pair of faux leather ankle boots. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“But do all grasshoppers play their music on violins, the same way as you do?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of their voices would echo to the ceiling, and then the band would play from the gallery where I was leaning now, the man with the violin smiling, swaying to the music. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Did the mad scientist with her scary music startle you?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He could hear the sound of music from the hall behind him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This began a wave of neurological studies on music and the brain, all of which point to the same conclusion: that musical study and training are indeed beneficial to the human brain. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Mother was always telling us to turn the music down. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘A child of the Underworld? My people would find your presence revolting. No charming music would keep them from slaying you.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But there is food and laughter and the music. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The organ music stopped and the minister cleared his throat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a sputter, then a torrent of bright music. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I played a tape of old, romantic music from the years when they were dating, the kind that always gave the Doctorita a far-off, dreamy look in her eyes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually the dance elements of the Chaconne were abandoned altogether and the chord sequence alone remained in music of all styles and rhythms. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We were having music class, but we couldn’t keep our minds on the teacher’s directions. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But composers often add some notes or even whole sections of music that are from a different key, to make the music a little more complex and interesting. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Select different types of music and note down the general beats per minute using a watch or clock. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

How do people in other cultures view music? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Still, that night, I didn’t, couldn’t, turn off the music. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop says this rap stuff ain’t nothing but the devil’s music. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But the music was so sweet that they couldn’t help but be happy too. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, country music was blaring, and, just like that, Baba had started a party. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All of this may seem very arbitrary, but it's important to remember that medieval mode theory, just like our modern music theory, was not trying to invent a logical system of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Adam wore a faraway yet intent look, as though he were listening to some wind-carried music, but his eyes were not dead as they had been. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could even hear the music in his head. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even purchased a secondhand piano so they could keep making music together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The terms "folk music" and "pop music" also have more than one meaning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Party noises hung in the air: loud music, the raised voices and high laughter of boys and girls, all of them looser and freer than they would be the next day. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The background music is one more irritation on top of squeaky shopping cart wheels, and people asking “Do you have shallots?” and “Where is the kosher salt?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s a stereo, isn’t it? Why don’t you play some music? Or are you bored with the stereo, too?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That way, he says, he’s in control of the music. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The music died out with a painful moan. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I would protest the use of folk music and the hand-holding. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you say Durham! the wheels begin to turn, the smoke rolls in massive clouds from every stack and the sweet assuring music of busy machinery is heard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The world of classical music—particularly in its European home—was until very recently the preserve of white men. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

If we were going to be a real band, we had to start writing our own music. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

At the piano, a young girl leafed through a few sheets of music, but when she saw me looking at her, she ducked her head crossly and tore the sheets in half. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When she used to come home from school she felt good and was ready to start working on the music. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Everything is quiet, tense, until Chantal changes the music and turns the volume up really loud. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Beatriz’s voice lowers to a whisper so soft, I can barely hear her over the music. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There are videos about the importance and difference of treble and bass clefs; there is a list of music terms and what they mean, and the site even contains videos entailing the transposition of music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Tonight he had not played music at all. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“So,” he said, “the stupidest things can be set to music. You’d be better off learning love songs.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I am very fond of balalaika music," I said. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Joe basked in the bright, brassy music, soaking it in as it washed over him, feeling it swing him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For some, culture is now also gaming, websites, chat and messaging systems, TV shows, music, and movies. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony. I don’t have to tell you that.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This intelligence enables us to recognize, create, reproduce, and reflect on music, as demonstrated by composers, conductors, musicians, vocalists, and sensitive listeners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Everyone knows Kvothe was clever with a lute. That’s why the widow had taken such a shine to him in the first place, and playing music every night was part of his chores.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Making sure kids didn’t listen to rock-and-roll music since Moses.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His music, drawn by light touches, holds together by some mysterious link between them - and by his gift of luminous clear-sightedness. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But the melody of a piece of music isn't just any string of notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Where titles are concerned, classical music has its own variations on the theme. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus Mozart, an Austrian writing largely Italian-flavoured music, thought of himself as a natural successor to Handel, a German trained in Italy who settled in Britain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I wish we had music because the silence is making me restless. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So lovely it was, so soft, and its own music came from it—its music of promise and delight, its guarantee of the future, of comfort, of security. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine Mrs. Lynch, with her gray hair, wrapped in a bun, as a teenager, dancing to music in the living room with my mom. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The dancers, the music, the lights, the people in the theater are all so beautiful that I want to wear them on my skin for the rest of my life. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I put on my best lawn dress and kid boots, the ones I’d worn to the music recital, and tied a sky-blue ribbon in my hair, the color Harry liked best on me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He said that any religion with music so beautiful must be the work of God. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z