Barton's voice was rougher than Dill had ever heard it.

Once again, he shook his head, kept his face expressionless and his voice very calm, and had a strongly supported alibi ready.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

He had his voice under control again: no one became aware that he was terrified by what had just happened to him.

The marine shouted for it until it seemed that his voice had to crack.

He had a purring voice and poker player's immobility of features which somehow conveyed the feeling that he knew where all the bodies were buried.

A lone pro-Hearst voice from New York City was that of William Devery, who had been expelled as a Tammany leader but still claimed strong influence in his own district.

A voice drifted in to me above the patter of the rain shortly after I had fallen into a fitful sleep.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.

at will, the voice of the auctioneer, the voices of the bidders, and finally the small boy who had been so interested in Mr. Podger's hammock purchase.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

He had a deep voice which was full of good food she had cooked, and good humor ; ;

Arlene had a hard voice, too, this time.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.

Chandler had expected a tough old trooper with a gravel voice.

In a low voice, almost whispering, the man had asked Phil if he was happy with the way the landlord had been taken off his back.

I remember Ernest Bloch in the foyer, shouting in his high-pitched voice: `` it may be a tour de force, mais mon Dieu, can anyone take this music seriously ''??

Even with words coming too fast, they came on the music of the voice.

Arrangements of popular music for small a cappella ensembles typically include one voice singing the lead melody, one singing a rhythmic bass line, and the remaining voices contributing chordal or polyphonic accompaniment.

Brandy uses her voice for background music in this song, showing her capabilities of using her voice as an instrument.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

" It's definitely in the Swedish folk music, you can hear it in the Russian folk songs, you can hear in in the music from Jean Sibelius or Edvard Grieg from Norway, you can see it in the eyes of Greta Garbo and you can hear it in the voice of Jussi Björling.

The range of frequencies needed to convey the sounds of a human voice are normally far narrower than that needed for music, and the sound is normally less complex.

Simple additive mixers use Kirchhoff's circuit laws to add the currents of two or more signals together, and this terminology (" mixer ") is only used in the realm of audio electronics where audio mixers are used to add together audio signals such as voice signals, music signals, and sound effects.

From 1899 on Satie started making money as a cabaret pianist, adapting over a hundred compositions of popular music for piano or piano and voice, adding some of his own.

Puccini also wrote orchestral pieces, sacred music, chamber music and songs for voice and piano, most notably his 1880 mass Messa di gloria and his 1890 string quartet Crisantemi.

* Free sheet music arranged for piano and voice, from Cantorion. org.

Such a statement on her part, however, worked to her advantage because it made her statements that all of her writings and music came from visions of the Divine more believable, therefore giving Hildegard the authority to speak in a time and place where few women were permitted a voice.

Travis Jackson has also proposed a broader definition of jazz which is able to encompass all of the radically different eras: he states that it is music that includes qualities such as " swinging ", improvising, group interaction, developing an ' individual voice ', and being ' open ' to different musical possibilities ".

By the 1930s, the guitar began to displace the banjo as the primary chordal rhythm instrument in jazz music, because the guitar could be used to voice chords of greater harmonic complexity, and it had a somewhat more muted tone that blended well with the upright bass, which, by this time, had almost completely replaced the tuba as the dominant bass instrument in jazz music.

This means that the voice, as part of the music, has equal volume on both stereo channels and no phase difference.

In essence, Puerto Rican rap became the voice of Puerto Rican youth like dancehall and rap music are methods of expression for their Jamaican and lower-class U. S. youth counterparts as they made it in France too since 2003 " 1492 Army ".

* Lyric describes, in the classification of the human voice in European classical music, a specific vocal weight and a range at the upper end of the given voice part

He worked his tongue round and round in the hollow of his cheek and his voice came out of his throat, dry and cracked.

A voice spoke near-at-hand.

The voice came from behind him, and Wilson turned.

He spoke to me in a gruff voice, an affectation which quite belied his personality.

He spoke, in a voice as immaculate as his appearance.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

Dill's voice tightened.

He was uttering threats in a low but savage voice when they closed and padlocked the door.

Brenner's voice was oily, but Summers wasn't fooled.

Couldn't I just '' -- His voice trailed off into silence.

Curt doubted that any animal belonging to Jess would find much reassurance in its owner's voice.

Nate turned his head, attempting to speak in a soothing voice.

He thought once that he identified the somewhat hysterical voice of Fleischman claiming a kill.

They're Japs '', came a high-pitched voice.

The voice was that of Johnson, tail gunner off another crew.

The voice crying in him was the voice of guilt.

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

in reading, on platforms, even in the large auditorium of the Y.M.H.A., Poetry Center nights, his voice was intimate, thoughtful, and a trifle shy.

A ripple ran through the muscles of his jaws, but he kept control upon his voice.

I was puzzled by the remark, then I recalled the voice of mild Professor Howard Griggs three years ago in a university lecture on primitive societies.

There was a gentle concern in Benson's voice.