expressive quality
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexpressiveandquality
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expressive
adjective
uk/ɪkˈspres.ɪv/us/ɪkˈspres.ɪv/
showing what someone thinks ...
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quality
noun
uk/ˈkwɒl.ə.ti/us/ˈkwɑː.lə.t̬i/
how good or bad ...
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(Definition ofexpressiveandqualityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofexpressive quality
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But rather surprisingly, the essence of opera as excessive, fatal and anxiety-ridden has been carved into theexpressivequalityof the film itself.
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The images of sound waves that accompany the song reduce the music to its literal components, stripping away itsexpressivequality.
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This house has its own completely differentexpressivequality.
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A file could even be convolved with a copy of itself, which created an ethereal, rushed orexpressivequality.
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Roughly in this way, promising can have what we may call anexpressivequality.
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The raters were provided with both written instructions and sample audio files to calibrate what a speech sample might sound like at each of the four levels ofexpressivequality.
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The sole can be played rubato, that is, slowing down and speeding up the tempo to enrich itsexpressivequality.
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Her work is strong and has a boldexpressivequalitycombined with fine sensitivity.
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The work is infused with fresh material juxtapositions and anexpressivequalitygrounded in traditional formal proportions and scale.
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If the ink is too rich, it loses itsexpressivequality; if too weak in tone, it fails to achieve a proper vigour.
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As students improvise they will learn how to manipulate musical materials and gain a deeper insight into their expressive qualities.
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Tjokot gained a reputation for exploiting theexpressivequalityinherent in the wood.
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Wicks photographs are highly regarded for theirexpressivequality.
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Therefore, teaching improvisation skills may help students take ownership of theexpressivequalityof the music they make, and to keep music learning and practicing alive and interesting.
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Hearing music is structured around an ordering of sounds where its expressive qualities take shape against a measured framework.
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She did not mention, however, rhythmic aspects of breathing in relation to the pulse of music, or any specific connections between breathing and the expressive qualities in the music.
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Sound example 11 is an excerpt from the middle of this movement that demonstrates some of the expressive qualities of the designs (see the spectrogram in figure 19).
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Physical models typically provide very flexible control over the expressive qualities of the synthesised sound, but controlling the model parameters in a realtime environment is far from simple.
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The emotional and expressive qualities of music came to take precedence over technique and tradition.
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