Tonally similar to Rosemary's Baby and The Haunting, the film tells its story from the vantage point of a female protagonist of doubtful sanity, and emphasizes story and atmosphere rather than excessive gore and violence.

Tonally, most lullabies are simple, often merely alternating tonic and dominant harmonies: Because the intended effect is to put someone to sleep, wild chromaticism would be somewhat out of character.

: Tonally, this first large part, the instrumental half of the movement, is organized in F minor.

Tonally, this section does not stray far from F although the music goes through major and minor sections.

Tonally most berceuses are simple, often merely alternating tonic and dominant harmonies ; since the intended effect is to put a baby to sleep, wild chromaticism would be somewhat out of character.

" Tonally, the music is pulled between F-sharp major, D minor and D-sharp minor.

The air was full of sounds too but placid ones, a terrestrial humming as much out of the earth as out of the blue sky.

In most amplifiers a reduction in gain takes place before hard clipping occurs ; the result is a compression effect, which ( if the amplifier is an audio amplifier ) sounds much less unpleasant to the ear.

Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant.

Since much of the double bass's range lies below the standard bass clef, it is notated an octave higher than it sounds.

A musical act with as few as one or two members, each operating multiple MIDI-enabled devices, can deliver a performance which sounds similar to that of a much larger group of musicians.

Annemarie Schneider, a 19-year-old secretary in a law firm in Rosenheim ( a town in southern Germany ) was seemingly the unwitting cause of much chaos and controversy in the firm, including disruption of electricity and telephone lines, the rotation of a picture, swinging lamps which were captured on video ( which was one of the first times any poltergeist activity has been captured on film ), and strange sounds that sounded electrical in origin were recorded.

Since the mid-1980s, Peart has used MIDI trigger pads to trigger sounds sampled from various pieces of acoustic percussion that would otherwise consume far too much stage area, such as a marimba, harp, temple blocks, triangles, glockenspiel, orchestra bells, tubular bells, and vibraslap as well as other, more esoteric percussion.

* Assimilation: One sound becomes more like another, or ( much more rarely ) two sounds become more like each other.

One sound becomes less like another, or ( much more rarely ) two sounds become less like each other.

"(...) Aristotle sounds much more like a genuine correspondence theorist in the Categories ( 12b11, 14b14 ), where he talks of " underlying things " that make statements true and implies that these " things " ( pragmata ) are logically structured situations or facts ( viz., his sitting, his not sitting ).

Her album included raw and quite harsh vocals that were possibly influenced by Japanese opera, but bear much in common with sounds in nature ( especially those made by animals ) and free jazz techniques used by wind and brass players.

" Antonioni's films tend to have spare plots and dialogue, and much of the screen time is spent lingering on certain settings, such as the seven-minute continuous take in The Passenger, or the scene in L ' Eclisse in which Monica Vitti stares curiously at electrical posts accompanied by ambient sounds of wires clanking.

However, when music is scored for a soprano whistle it will be written an octave lower than it sounds, so avoiding use of ledger lines and making it much easier to read.

Simon found himself embracing new sounds, a fact that some critics viewed negatively – however, Simon reportedly felt it as a very natural artistic experiment, considering that " world music " was already present on much of his early work, including such Simon & Garfunkel hits as " El Condor Pasa " and his early solo recording " Mother and Child Reunion ", which was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica.

For some time there had been much interest in producing innovative music and sounds to go with the pioneering programming of the era, in particular the dramatic output of the BBC Third Programme.

Dewey replies, " Why doesn't anyone ask Bob Dylan why he sounds so much like Dewey Cox?

The way in which the electrodes are " contacted " by the tongue during speech provides phoneticians with important information, such as how much of the palate is contacted in different speech sounds, or which regions of the palate are contacted, or what the duration of the contact is.

After the definition of MIDI in 1982 and the development of digital audio, the creation of purely electronic sounds and their manipulation became much simpler.

Besides altarpieces and portraits he painted pictures that told no story, whether biblical or classical, or if they professed to tell a story, neglected the action and simply embodied in form and color moods of lyrical or romantic feeling, much as a musician might embody them in sounds.

This included using loudspeakers to play sounds of animals being slaughtered, drilling noises and clips from talk shows about how much their leader David Koresh was hated.

Some parts of the sounds also later developed a significant whaling history, and much of the sounds was ( thinly ) settled by European farmers in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Commercial scallops harvesting companies have warned that protests could endanger lives if the protesters engaged in dangerous manoeuvres, while the Ministry of Fisheries has also noted that only 6 % of the sounds are set aside for the dredging, though this had been much more extensive in the past.

Williams notes that " students preoccupied with fingerings and not notes, much less sounds "; some are able " to play [...] difficult solo works from memory ", but " have a very poor sense of ensemble or timing ".

The word hemiola comes from the Greek adjective ἡμιόλιος — hemiolios, meaning " containing one and a half ", " half as much again ", " in the ratio of one and a half to one ( 3: 2 ), as in musical sounds ".

Either way it sounds like a sizable hunk of money and is.

Mr. George Hough ( Oct. 30 ) sounds like a business man who waits until the last minute to leave his home or shop.

Command's new Brahms Second is a major effort to make a record that sounds like a real orchestra rather than a copy of one.

Aids sounds more like a Pony Club, or horsemanship classes -- riding a horse and showing a dog are very similar!!

One learns to become alert to changes in his vocal tone -- to his voice's suddenly shifting to a quality not like his usual one, a quality which sounds somehow artificial or, in some instances, parrot-like.

there is no phrase or image that sounds like Hardy or that is striking enough to give individuality to the poem.

`` Your dad sounds like a good father and a good policeman.

`` This deal at Las Putas Buenas where the two knife-men jumped you '', said Rourke with interest, `` that sounds like it was set up with malice aforethought by the luscious Mrs. Peralta, doesn't it ''??

There was a gabble of voices from indoors, young hungry sounds like cats after fish, and a burst of swearing from the old man.

It's so romantic up there, she used to say, with the broad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous dark mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic.

`` I know you feel badly, but that sounds like such a queer thing for you to say ''.

Only high frequency sounds like mating calls are heard in this way but low frequency noises can be detected through another mechanism.

This is to avoid the notion that a writing system that represents sounds must be either a syllabary or an alphabet, which implies that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary ( as argued by Gelb ) or an incomplete or deficient alphabet ( as most other writers have said ); rather, it is a different type.

Chinese has in which the first element sounds like the accented second syllable in " America " ( and the second element means " nation ").

Much of it sounds like the Apocalypse, by which Snorri, a Christian, can hardly fail to have been influenced.

This class of sounds includes lateral approximants like ( as in less ), non-lateral approximants like ( as in rest ), and semivowels like and ( as in yes and west, respectively ).

They will either replace the desired word with another that sounds or looks like the original one, or has some other connection, or they will replace it with sounds.

) the Lochra would seem to be the combined mouth of the Gravona and Prunelli Rivers, neither one of which sounds like Lochra.

The Israelites cross the Jordan through the miraculous intervention of God and his ark and are circumcised at Gibeath-Haaraloth ( translated as hill of foreskins ), renamed Gilgal in memory ( Gilgal sounds like Gallothi, I have removed, but is more likely to translate as circle of standing stones ).

There are several ways to produce breathy-voiced sounds like.

In fact, the English alphabet has fewer consonant letters than English has consonant sounds, so digraphs like " ch ", " sh ", " th ", and " zh " are used to extend the alphabet, and some letters and digraphs represent more than one consonant.

Listening to the only surviving recordings of a castrato ( see below ), one can hear that the lower part of the voice sounds like a " super-high " tenor, with a more falsetto-like upper register above that.