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Recent Examples of étude
Advertisement Something similar happened with the composition of the etudes themselves.
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Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Apparently, performing Musser’s etudes for marimba is a rite of passage for percussion majors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023
But these songs are not so much referential as reverential: meditative daybreak etudes capable of conveying the feeling that all is right in the world.
—Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023
At its worst, the music on Everyone’s Crushed sounds like etudes – studies in experimentalism, finger exercises for tyros in the avant-garde.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2023
To treat those simply as etudes and exercises would be a disservice, and Ferrillo deployed the expressive acumen that BSO listeners know well, gracefully responding to the orchestra.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
In the etude inspired by Native American Margaret Bradshaw’s My World is Not Flat, a playful Pueblo dance song comes up now and then.
—Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
So far, Wingfield has released a handful of etudes.
—Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2020
After Barker’s tour through the obstacle course of Gubaidulina etudes, Manuel de Falla’s radiant Concerto for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello ended the concert with a carnival of sound.
—BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Apparently, performing Musser’s etudes for marimba is a rite of passage for percussion majors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2023
But these songs are not so much referential as reverential: meditative daybreak etudes capable of conveying the feeling that all is right in the world.
—Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023
At its worst, the music on Everyone’s Crushed sounds like etudes – studies in experimentalism, finger exercises for tyros in the avant-garde.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2023
To treat those simply as etudes and exercises would be a disservice, and Ferrillo deployed the expressive acumen that BSO listeners know well, gracefully responding to the orchestra.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
In the etude inspired by Native American Margaret Bradshaw’s My World is Not Flat, a playful Pueblo dance song comes up now and then.
—Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 10 Mar. 2021
So far, Wingfield has released a handful of etudes.
—Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 27 Apr. 2020
After Barker’s tour through the obstacle course of Gubaidulina etudes, Manuel de Falla’s radiant Concerto for harpsichord, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello ended the concert with a carnival of sound.
—BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for étude
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Those moves were then reversed by the Trump administration but later reinstated by the Biden administration, which also released an accompanying U.S. Forest Service study that said hard-rock mining within the Rainy River Watershed could pose an environmental threat to the BWCAW.Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2024
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Rabinovich, a distinguished Israeli historian of the modern Middle… The War for Lebanon, 1970-1983 This is partly a history of Lebanon's breakdown and civil war, partly a study of why and how Israel went to war in 1982.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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Teaming up with Aquilina, her longtime co-producer Tom Stafford and FIZZ co-producer Peter Miles, Gartland began to craft her sophomore opus.Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024
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Megalopolis—film icon Francis Ford Coppola’s big-budget sci-fi opus—is already up for pre-order on digital streaming.Tim Lammers, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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Learning to live with the state of the world’s a daily practice.Kate Guadagnino, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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The wine program at Mother Wolf stocks more than 400 labels, focusing on Italy’s Piedmont, Tuscany and Sardinia, with multi-generational family producers and emerging estates and an emphasis on organic and sustainable practices.Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
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David Avella, Chairman, GOPAC Independents and partisan composition.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Trump’s relationship with Congress will depend on its post-election composition.Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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Mazzoli created a lush score that was alternately sweeping or intimate, sensuous or mystical, yet with a distinctive sound that was her own weaving a thread through the piece.Janelle Gelfand, Cincinnati.com, 19 July 2017
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This is why the war stories of Tom Clancy are such convincing and moving pieces of fiction.Janine Barchas, Washington Post, 18 July 2017
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Be unstable: Use your entire body, and target your core, by performing exercises that engage stabilizing muscles.Fred Sassani, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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What kind of exercise is best during chilly weather?Katia Hetter, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
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My favorite signatory on this one is another Nobel laureate, the fiery left-wing feminist Austrian Elfriede Jelinek, known for her 1983 masterpiece The Piano Teacher.Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
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The reconstruction process has yielded fresh perspectives on the Gothic masterpiece, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site.Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
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Beijing launched major drills after former U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi visited the island in August 2022; when Lai’s predecessor, Tsai Ing-wen, briefly stopped in the United States in April 2023; and again after Lai’s inauguration in May 2024.David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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Footage captured Chief Keef meeting Solange over the weekend and the heartwarming exchange found the Chicago drill pioneer in shock that the A Seat at the Table singer was a fan of his music.Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2024
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“étude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/%C3%A9tude. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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