This is a vigorous version of pizzicato where the strings are " slapped " against the fingerboard between the main notes of the bass line, producing a snare drum-like percussive sound.

Latencies of even a few milliseconds are enough to disrupt percussive parts and cause phasing and flanging effects, but are otherwise acceptable as long as the amount of delay is consistent.

Although the term partido alto originally arose at the beginning of the 1900s to describe instrumental music, the term came to be used to signify a type of samba which is characterized by a highly percussive beat of pandeiro, using the palm of the hand in the center of the instrument in place.

" On Broadway "— which provides a conventional underscore to the onscreen action — is replaced by discordant, percussive music that lacks melody or progression.

This method can yield good results on both polyphonic and percussive material, especially when the signal is separated into sub-bands.

Adding lower notes is somewhat impractical ; as the bars become bigger and the resonators become longer, the instrument must be taller and the mallets must be heavier in order to produce a tone rather than just a percussive attack.

Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one's tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument.

One of the few musical instruments invented entirely in the United States is the Zydeco Frottoir ( Zydeco Rubboard ), a distillation of the washboard into essential elements ( percussive surface with shoulder straps ) designed by Clifton Chenier and built by Willie Landry in 1946.

It is said that he pioneered the art of slap-pop playing on the electric bass, in part to provide percussive and rhythmic elements in addition to the notes of the bass line when his mother's band lacked a drummer ; the slap of the thumb being used to emulate a bass drum and the pop of the index or middle finger as a snare drum.

The tack piano is a piano that has been altered by inserting thumbtacks or small nails into the striking end of each hammer, so that the instrument will produce a more percussive sound and brighter timbre.

Regular treatment is usually required — primarily percussive therapy and antibiotics.

A buzzing, percussive string is sometimes used.

It is scored for a full mixed choir, soprano and tenor soloists, and an entirely percussive orchestra-possibly inspired by Stravinsky's Les noces-consisting of four pianos, timpani, bass drum, 3 tambourines, triangle, castanets, maracas, suspended and crash cymbals, antique cymbal ( without specified pitch ), tam-tam, lithophone, metallophone, 2 glockenspiels, wood block, xylophone, and tenor xylophone.

Rumba is a family of percussive rhythms, song and dance that originated in Cuba as a combination of the musical traditions of Africans brought to Cuba as slaves and Spanish colonizers.

* Travel lines-these are horizontal lines found on the percussive edge of the palm between the wrist and the heart line ; each line is said to represent a trip taken by the subject-the longer the line, the more important the trip is to the subject.

The dambura is played with much banging and scratching on the instrument to help give a percussive sound.

The tip of the blade is the jiànfeng, meant for stabbing, slashing, and quick percussive cuts.

The bass is often played in the slap style, in which the player snaps the string by pulling it until it hits the fingerboard, or hits the strings against the fingerboard, which adds a high-pitched percussive " clack " or " slap " sound to the low-pitched notes.

He is a renowned solo performer of traditional songs in a very distinctive style, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar ; his style is marked by the use of alternative tunings ( notably CGCDGA ), and a strongly percussive picking style that emphasizes the melody.

Although heavily percussive, the music also dispenses with a continuous beat ; instead Ra's music is reconstructed around " interweaving compositional and improvisatory creative principles with programmatic affects ".

A percussive sound is also made by smacking the strings with all four fingers on the right hand, usually in time with the snare drum.

According to Katherine Litz, `` the becoming, the process of realization, is the dance ''.

The design is determined emotionally: `` I must reach into myself for the spring that will send me catapulting recklessly into the chaos of event with which the dance confronts me ''.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

The sequence of movements in a Cunningham dance is unlike any sequence to be seen in life.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

The singular uncompromising force of their revolt against the cult of restraint is illustrated by their refusal to dance in a public place.

The dance is but a disguised ritual for the expression of ungratified sexual desire.

Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.

Marlene ( surname: Adamo ), 25, a Brazilian divorcee who learned the dance from Arabic friends in Paris, now lives on Manhattan's West Side, is about the best belly dancer working the Casbah, loves it so much that she dances on her day off.

His creative development of melodic designs of Slavic dance tunes and love songs is captivating: witty, clever, adroit, and subtle.

It is more than just lack of dance training that is our problem, for just as gymnastics can learn from dance, dance has some very important things to learn from gymnastics.

To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.

This is not unlike the order received by the sergeant of an army motor pool: `` Four trucks to Fort Mason gym, 7:30 tonight, for hauling girls to dance.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.

There is no use at all in trying to follow it dance by dance and title by title, for it has a kind of nonstop format, and moves along in an admirable continuity that demands no pauses for identification.

One thing is certain, however, and that is that he is far more slavish to the detailed accents, phrasings and contours of the music he deals with than a confident dance creator need be.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

It is well then that in this hour both of `` national peril '' and of `` national opportunity '' we can take counsel with the men who made the nation.

`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.

Civilization is what man has made of himself.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.

He is a utopian with a stake in tomorrow and he is a vulnerable human made captive by the circumstances of today.

No attempt is made by Ptolemy to weld into a single scheme ( a-la-Aristotle ), these independent predicting-machines.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

We know that much is made of the multiplicity and ambiguity of the identities that cluster around the key symbol of the Jew.

The symposium provides an opportunity to confront the self with specific statements which were made at particular times by identifiable communicators who were addressing definite audiences -- and throughout several hundred pages everyone is talking about the same key symbol of identification.

One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.