musical frame

A prosaic lyric can always be improved by the right musical frame.

Blood's aim is to create music that expresses the meaning of human emotion that breaks the musical frame.

But even if one accepts the opera's poetic and musical frames of reference, Strauss doesn't always sustain his highest level of inspiration.

Mr. Glass's music, for all its elemental, tonal foundations, establishes no musical frame either, deliberately isolating itself from operatic and theatrical traditions.

The images and sound from the USG created the visual and musical frame of the performance, as three musicians played the score, using the child's heartbeat as the basic rhythm.

So when you take it out of that context and put it in the context of a musical frame that's meant to make evil apparent, it holds a magnifying glass up.

Our choice of features reflect a plan to make this garden a child's paradise, with a musical frame, decking, sandpit and many other beaut features make this the ideal child's retreat.

In a sense, this put Verdi's opera at a slight remove, showing it less as a musical setting of Sir John Falstaff's farcical endeavors than as a musical frame for a performance of "Merry Wives" (or something like it).

One man of the party opens with the starting words of the hallel, while the entire party eagerly joins in with him, in an audible voice and with a monotonous staccato melody, and by prolonging the end of the textual and musical frames.

Burton initially planned to use minimal sets and film in front of a green screen, but decided against it, stating that physical sets helped actors get into a musical frame of mind: "Just having people singing in front of a green screen seemed more disconnected".

Runswick claims a modest role in his 'Write-Your-Own Opera for children to do themselves', providing the musical frame and a scenario which magics six classes through the ages and to the ends of the earth in search of ingredients for Mr Gandolfi's birthday cake.