marchlike

The marchlike first movement was here taken at a rather leisurely tempo.

As the title song's marchlike introduction exploded from his speakers, he smiled.

Musical pulses range from foursquare to marchlike, but these are merely ruses.

The music pushed forward on shifting bass vamps and marchlike drumming; its destination was elusive.

The marchlike B section, which is only barely syncopated, acts as a contrast to the previous rhythmic complexities.

His unhurried, marchlike relentlessness is on display.

The finale never loses its marchlike steadiness, even though uncertainly remembered scraps of music swirl around it.

They were raised in unison in a marchlike rhythm, while an occasional gunshot echoed faintly from somewhere far away.

The quartet "Sancta mater, istud agas" makes the case, with its merry, marchlike theme.

The actors, appearing more drilled than directed, make marchlike exits and entrances, seldom rising metaphorically from those gray suits.

Was that the sounds of the Cossacks coming during the heavy-footed, marchlike music of the opening Allegro?

Beethoven's Sonata Opus 110 seemed almost too respectful, too marchlike in its careful symmetries.

Frequently the serenades began and ended with movements of a marchlike character-since the instrumentalists often had to march to and from the place of performance.

Bartok's First Piano Concerto continued the military theme, especially in the grim marchlike Andante.

At the end the sonorities evoke a squawky honky-tonk and the rough marchlike melodic style of Kurt Weill.

Likewise obsessive were pieces by Galina Ustvolskaya, with their determined marchlike melodies and hammering episodes of war and peace.

If this American piece plants the idea of marchlike movement in the ear, it upsets expectations at every turn, yet the lockstep steadiness always lurks by implication.

The characteristic marchlike, upbeat music of North Korea is carefully composed, rarely individually performed, and its lyrics and imagery have a clear socialist content.

The Dionysian music is always in Sicilian dance rhythm, and Pentheus's music is in a marchlike time."

The marchlike stride of the first movement was strongly conveyed, and the violinist's most personal work came in the subdued allegretto grazioso of the third movement.

It was like a snappish call to attention, an order to begin the marchlike supplication "Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear unto my cry."

The bold, marchlike main theme of the work, as in the version for solo piano, is the Hungarian folk song "Mohac's Field," with a long-short-short-long rhythm.

Rhythmic subtlety isn't Mr. Hammer's strong suit; drums and bass pound away behind raps in marchlike cadences, generally with the three voices in unison.

Shouldn't those rippling 16th-note passages in the marchlike opening of the first movement be crisp, rhythmic and thematic, not the sweeping blurs that Mr. Lang made them?

Like Bruce Springsteen, whose marchlike stolidity sometimes melds with Texas country in Mr. Robison's tunes, he tells sympathetic stories about working-class characters.