strummings

The most striking passage in the concerto comes after the soloist's first declamation, as the orchestra sidles into the piece almost reluctantly and imperceptibly, before surrounding the increasingly percussive solo part with garlands of strummings and harmonics.

Norwegian CO 2010

Lucas, seated in front of the screen with minimal pedals and two guitars, supplied an almost unbroken stream of gothic church-organ drones, rushing-water or ticking-clock sounds, dark country-music bottleneck effects and ominous flamenco strummings to a Dracula print with subtitles and dialogue it would probably have been more fascinating to do without – but the 90 minutes passed with startling ease.

Dave Douglas/Gary Lucas – review John Fordham 2010

Taylor bookended his set with wistful Wheeler compositions Consolation and Everybody's Song But My Own, and ran from hypnotic single-note tappings against crunching chords through surging contrapuntal improvisations and under-the-lid strummings on a Steve Swallow theme.

Bath festival 2010

Reflection suggests auditory awareness as of collisions, strummings, and lions.

Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009

Especially, if you can, take in a live music event or two, such as the jazzy-folky music of Frogg Marlowe and Jaycatt Nico, the folk strummings of Cylindrian Rutabaga, or the “boogie blues” of Komuso Tokugawa, just to name a few.

Random Thoughts Early on a Thanksgiving Morning « Whatever 2006

Especially, if you can, take in a live music event or two, such as the jazzy-folky music of Frogg Marlowe and Jaycatt Nico, the folk strummings of Cylindrian Rutabaga, or the “boogie blues” of Komuso Tokugawa, just to name a few.

Random Thoughts Early on a Thanksgiving Morning « Whatever 2006

The regulations on these subjects, though ineffably childish, look simple enough on paper; they take no account of that "personal element" which is everything in the south, of the ruffled tempers of those gorgeous but inert creatures who, disturbed in their siestas or mandolin-strummings, may keep you waiting half a day while they fumble ominously over some dirty-looking scrap of paper.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Some one was strumming in the drawing-room -- with intervals between the strummings -- as though the player stopped to listen for something or some one.

The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885

A shout of applause was followed by wild strummings and tunings of mandolins, and occasional scratching of heads or turbans, to remember all that Hafiz had ever written, or to aid their attempts at improviso versification.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

A shout of applause was followed by wild strummings and tunings of mandolins, and occasional scratching of heads or turbans, to remember all that Hafiz had ever written, or to aid their attempts at improviso versification.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820