Examples of fugal in a Sentence
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The finale mixes frenzied scurries, quasi chicken cluckings and virtuoso fugal writing.
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Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
But Sir John finally accepts his well-deserved comeuppance, and all is put to rights in that fugal finale.
—Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
The orchestra showed an impressive ability to build energy over time, and later, triumphant fugal passagework displayed more of the high level of ensemble synchrony in winds and strings that characterizes the orchestra’s present sound.
—Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
But this is one of his best, packing in exquisite dances, hymn-like melody and fierce fugal passage work.
—E.c., The Economist, 21 May 2020
As the movement progressed, the interpretation took on an epic scale, the basses growling, the upper strings magisterial in fugal passages.
—Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
Didn’t Charles Dutoit also conduct Rachmaninoff with such a deeply -considered sense of sound and attention to fugal details?
—David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018
Mr. Korstvedt, the Bruckner Society president, pointed to the Fifth as an important caesura, concluding Bruckner’s earlier period with its daring fugal finale.
—David Allen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
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Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
But Sir John finally accepts his well-deserved comeuppance, and all is put to rights in that fugal finale.
—Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
The orchestra showed an impressive ability to build energy over time, and later, triumphant fugal passagework displayed more of the high level of ensemble synchrony in winds and strings that characterizes the orchestra’s present sound.
—Lukas Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2022
But this is one of his best, packing in exquisite dances, hymn-like melody and fierce fugal passage work.
—E.c., The Economist, 21 May 2020
As the movement progressed, the interpretation took on an epic scale, the basses growling, the upper strings magisterial in fugal passages.
—Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 27 Sep. 2019
Didn’t Charles Dutoit also conduct Rachmaninoff with such a deeply -considered sense of sound and attention to fugal details?
—David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 9 Mar. 2018
Mr. Korstvedt, the Bruckner Society president, pointed to the Fifth as an important caesura, concluding Bruckner’s earlier period with its daring fugal finale.
—David Allen, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2017
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“Fugal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fugal. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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