Tension is frequently generated through the use of overlapping trills, tremolos, glissandi, and scalar figures within textures of g radually increasing density and volume.
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Figure 16 shows the notation for the first phrase of the piece, which includes three combinations of grace notes and trills.
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Similar trills and oscillations, soft percussion attacks, gleams of brass and string har monics ensue, but all is introductory.
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The nightingales, that had hushed their songs while the firing lasted, now star ted their trills once more; first one quite close, then others in the distance.
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Figure 17 (sound example 8) shows a 12-second example of legato and staccato tones, sliding trills and pitch bend from the dizi part for this section.
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Have not some of our strikes—and not the smallest of them—found their origin in trilling incidents which well come within the province of day-to-day working?
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What would happen to music if, one day, you could patent scales, chords, trills and everything else that makes the world of classical music so rich and exciting?
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The superb starling has a long and loud song consisting of trills and chatters.
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The song is a jumble of chirps, whistles, warbles and trills, with the same deep pitch as the call.
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There are then trills for one bar and another quaver, quaver rest, quaver, quaver rest pattern with a straight crotchet accompaniment for 4 bars.
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Musical elements visible on the graphs include the ghost xun framing the live xuntrillwith impossible sliding trills.
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Their song is not considered as musical as those of many others thrushes and consists of a series of squeaky notes followed by short trills.
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The theme heavily makes use of arpeggiated chords and trills.
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The call is a distinctive "twit", from which derives its name, and the song contains fast trills and twitters.
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The first opening slowly transforms a chord before turning to trills.
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