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- adjective music Without
vibrato .
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Examples
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The haunting juxtaposition of a dark-hued theme and its tremolando accompaniment was perfectly balanced, and muted passages played with a vibratoless, almost organlike tone were especially affecting.
NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2011
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The second movement was very atmospheric, with vibratoless sustained strings, percussion carefully selected for its tonal color, and muted and unmuted brass.
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The second movement was very atmospheric, with vibratoless sustained strings, percussion carefully selected for its tonal color, and muted and unmuted brass.
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Fresu's trumpet playing, with his clear vibratoless sound, has often been compared with that of Miles Davis.
VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅 GoldenEye 2010
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John F. Szwed of Yale University, whose brilliant biography of Sun Ra suggests that his much-awaited Davis biography may be definitive, argues that the timbre of Davis's midregister, almost vibratoless trumpet, which became the paradigmatic "cool" sound, was basically the result of a classically trained musician playing jazz.
BrothersJudd Blog 2008
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