The action is frequently too chaotic to register, and the performances are monotonal.
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They deliver dead-eyed, monotonal speeches about their traumas and their plans for the future.
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Unwisely tamped down, Mr. Smith delivers a generally monotonal performance flecked with grimaces and frowns.
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The lone sympathetic figure in "The Hunt" is a cool, preternaturally capable blonde nicknamed Snowball, cooly played by Betty Gilpin with studied ennui and a monotonal Mississippi accent.
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Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto — the monotonal "Fast and Furious" paterfamilias — has cars and camaraderie, an ideal combo for movies about American outsiders whose home has always been one another.
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The cast members — who include Tobias Menzies as the doctor formerly known as Astrov and the beautiful Jessica Brown Findlay (of "Downton Abbey") as the plain Sonya — often speak in a defeated, monotonal murmur.
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Knapp had an extraordinary voice, Bjork-like, but gentler, and performed the song alone, accompanying herself with only a delicate, monotonal Indian classical instrument resting in her lap, a kind of bellows, called a shruti box.
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Why the baby brain can learn two languages at the same time For example, a mother might say the word "baby" in an exaggerated "singsong" voice, which holds an infant's attention longer than it would in a monotonal adult-style voice.
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He's netted comparisons to admitted influences like Earl Sweatshirt and MF Doom with his resonant, monotonal delivery that's at once nonchalant and athletic, as well as with his eloquent diction, arcane vocabulary, and his seemingly effortless ability to stack internal and end rhymes.
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When he tells Miranda that as a traumatized military vet, he doesn't want to go back to Earth because "I like the hum up here, and the air," he sounds like a dopey space-age Forrest Gump, trying to turn a monotonal, hyper-simplistic statement into a manifesto.
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The travel didgeridoos are also called traveller didgeridoo or compact didgeridoos, indicating the compact size originally designed for portability by folding the length of the didgeridoo. They are made from wood, plastic or resin, and are usually monotonal.
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As a result of eliminating the monotonal aspects of traditional didgeridoos, the Didjeribone can be used in horn concertos. The Didjeribone has a pitch range from high G to low B. The length is 65" extended, and 37.5" closed. The flared end also gives a brighter and louder sound.
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The original "Didjbox" was invented by Marko Johnson in 1995. The first production line didgebox was released in 1999. Since then, numerous versions of didgebox have been developed, including the traveler box, obelisk box, didj flute, meditator and mindblower. The didgebox is monotonal and made in the specific keys C, D, and E.
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The spiral didgeridoo is also known variously as a spiral didge, spiralidoo, didgehorn or snail didgeridoo. Its spiral shape makes it more like a natural horn, and instruments are monotonal in C, C#, D, E, and F. The construction method includes splitting the wood, carving, and gluing back together to form the basic instrument.The Spiral Didgeridoo – A Wood Aerophone Innovation.
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This is especially true if the wheeze is monotonal, occurs throughout the inspiratory phase (i.e. is "holoinspiratory"), and is heard more proximally, in the trachea. Inspiratory wheezing also occurs in hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Wheezes heard at the end of both expiratory and inspiratory phases usually signify the periodic opening of deflated alveoli, as occurs in some diseases that lead to collapse of parts of the lungs.
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The album opens with "Push the Button", an uptempo pop, electropop and electronic song. Instrumentation consists of computer beats and electronics. The song was inspired by a limerance between Buchanan and an artist who collaborated with Austin, and is lyrically about a woman's sexual frustration of being unnoticed by a man. The next track is "Gotta Be You", a crunk and R&B; number that runs through a "monotonal crunk-influenced synthesised honking".
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The design changes include features that are similar to more familiar musical instruments like the trombone and natural horn.Didjeribone, Australia Adlib, Radio National, Australian Broadcasting Corporation The modern didgeridoo design innovations differ from traditional authentic digeridoos because they are not made by Indigenous Australians in a traditional style and do not use eucalyptus branches hollowed by termites.Thomas, R., Brass, 2002, Heinemann Library, p.22. Some didgeridoo design innovations, like the sliding didgeridoos, are also multi-tonal, unlike monotonal traditional didgeridoos.
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E. L. Wisty was a fictional character created and played by the comedian Peter Cook on and off throughout his career. A bland, monotonal know-it-all, Wisty usually appeared in monologues, or in two-handed sketches in which he bores the other person. According to British comedy scholar Roger Wilmut, "The striking thing about E. L. Wisty was that he never smiled—Cook managed to keep a straight face throughout, despite the audience laughter."Wilmut, Roger, From Fringe to Flying Circus: Celebrating a Unique Generation of Comedy, 1960-1980 (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980), p. 103.
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Traditional music prior to European contact included poems performed in a sort of monotonal recitation, though this tradition has since become extinct. In 1960-1961 Gerd Koch, an anthropologist, made recordings of traditional songs on the atolls of Niutao, Nanumaga and Nukufetau. These songs were considered in a 1964 musicological publication, with a selection of the songs published in 2000 as Songs of Tuvalu together with two CDs of the recorded songs. The influence of the Samoan missionaries sent to Tuvalu by the London Missionary Society from the 1860s resulted in the suppression of songs about the traditional religions or magic, with the Samoan missionaries also influencing the development of the Tuvaluan language.
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In a joint review of The Art of Falling Apart and Berlin's Pleasure Victim, Michael Goldberg of Record remarked that while the opening tracks "Forever the Same" and "Where the Heart Is" are decent, Marc Almond's monotonal vocal style quickly wears thin, and David Ball's use of the same synthesizer stylistics on every track similarly "[makes] the whole album sound like variations on one theme." He particularly derided the synth-pop renditions of Jimi Hendrix songs, saying "Just that concept ought to elicit a chuckle. Suffice to say that Soft Cell are not able to do for the Hendrix songs what they did for Gloria Jones' 'Tainted Love'." The album was ranked at number 4 among the "Albums of the Year" for 1983 by NME.
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For musical analysts of a Schenkerian orientation, progressive tonality presents a challenge. Heinrich Schenker's concept of the 'background' Ursatz (fundamental structure), rooted as it is in a metaphysically elaborated appreciation of the acoustic resonance of a single tone, inclines towards a severely monotonal approach to musical structure: either the opening or the closing key of a progressive tonal structure will frequently not be considered to be a true tonic. By contrast, Graham George developed a theory of 'interlocking tonal structures', in which two tonal 'axes' could coexist, with the second emerging after the first was established, and persisting after it was abandoned. Later generations of Schenkerians, following Harald Krebs have begun to identify "background conglomerates" in works that permanently change tonics: in this approach, two fundamental structures (Ursätze) are held to be present in the background of such works, one of them being the so-called elided fundamental structure (Ursatz).
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Juxtaposed with those old songs is a rendition of the Beatles' "With a Little Help From My Friends", its instrumentation emphasizing the monotonal aspects of Ringo Starr's vocals. The album also features an unusual original entry in the form of a mournful, minor-key melody called "Bud", which was written "In memory of our dear friend Ervan (Bud) Coleman" (who had died from surgery complications on May 26, 1967 at age 45, before the album was completed) and was also credited as being authored by Coleman and his wife Eleanor. Coleman was the composer of several Brass tunes (notably "Tijuana Taxi") and also played guitar, mandolin and banjo on several of the group's tracks. He was also a key member of Julius Wechter's Baja Marimba Band (their tribute to him, "For Bud", appears on their 1968 album Do You Know the Way To San Jose?).
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