hymnlike

I found an enormous amount of music that was hymnlike.

It's sentimental, sometimes hymnlike music - a bit cinematic, but for a very interior sort of movie.

Each is based on hymnlike melodies and includes a dignified fugue.

"Moments Magical" opened with horns alone at a relaxed hymnlike tempo.

Sometimes he used humor, sometimes his poems had hymnlike solemnity.

"Paths That Cross" is a hymnlike song about an afterlife.

Marc Cohn sang hymnlike ruminations about history's aftermath in the present.

It tapered off to a hymnlike finale.

Some songs use rich, hymnlike chords; others send bits of counterpoint scurrying around the choir.

The band plays hymnlike ballads, modified folk-rock and guitar-driven rock marches.

Instruments from all over add atmosphere and texture to hymnlike songs that agonize over romance gone wrong.

Her music genre-hops from moody hip-hop to hymnlike piano to fingerpicking pop-folk.

Mr. Foreman choreographically responded to the spareness of the occasionally hymnlike music.

The finale is a long and adventurous series of variations on a hymnlike theme, which returns basically unadorned at the end.

Now and then, the two hands would unite to share chords that built to a full-piano tremolo, making a hymnlike song ring out.

Again he strummed an introductory chord, this time setting the mood for a slow, sedate, almost hymnlike piece.

Strong and steady, his long-lined singing brought out the hymnlike quality of his music (especially his keyboard songs).

Western songs, including his hymnlike "Home on the Range," a favorite of Franklin Roosevelt.

The record makes its first dive into darkness on the fourth track, "Lonely Town," a slow, hymnlike ballad for trio.

Old melodies, including a hymnlike tune used by the Dutch master Sweelinck, are woven into the 100-minute score.

Foot-stomping and vocalization coexist with ruminative flights and hymnlike chords.

The latest one to ring that bell is John Bucchino's hymnlike anthem "Grateful."

During the Reconstruction era, the spiritual, previously passed down by oral tradition, acquired another layer, in the form of hymnlike choral harmonies.

Several of his best new songs inflect the mellow country-folk style of 70's California rock with hymnlike harmonies.

"Giant Steps" itself introduces a strong melody, and "Naima," also on the album, is the first of his great hymnlike ballads.