How to Use passagework in a Sentence

passagework

noun

• Sometimes, in bringing a milky gloss to passagework, the results just sounded smudgy.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 10 May 2017
• Rainey and Hoops showcased their warm, mellifluous tones, expertly shaped songful melodies and nailed the rapid passagework.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2020
• Noseda has a particular way with Beethoven: fresh and helium-light and so fleet that the strings almost floated offstage in the headlong blink-and-you’ll-miss-it passagework of the trio section of the third-movement scherzo.
  — Anne Midgette, Washington Post, 28 July 2019
• The 26th Variation is a whirlwind of spiraling passagework that tests a pianist’s technique.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2020
• Throughout his range, his tone was lovely and assured; difficult passagework seemed as straightforward as scales are to mere mortals.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 June 2017
• Here the crystalline touch of his pianism and the chorale-like three-horn passagework stood out, the music constantly shifting tone and texture, just as novelist Cole's protagonist observes the panoply of life in New York.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2017
• But most interesting was the restless edge in much of the virtuoso passagework, as if Tetzlaff was impatient to discharge the fireworks and get back to weaving lyrical lines in and out of the orchestra.
  — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2020
• As the music unfolded, the piano kept breaking into spans of filigreed, Chopinesque passagework.
  — New York Times, 28 Nov. 2019
• Jackiw also dispatched acrobatic passagework with absolute control, clearly brought out each note in double and triple stops — even in rapid sections — and spun out the silkiest of legatos in the slow movement.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2021
• Radiant, expansive horn passagework opened the piece, setting the stage for Gunn’s poetic solo.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Even in pianissimo passagework high up in his instrument, Bell emphasized beauty of tone and silken legato line.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2018
• The piano writing, nodding to the taste at the time for florid, virtuosic passagework, brims with brilliance and rippling runs, as well as captivating elegance and intricacy.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 30 June 2017
• Cole performed each piece with exuberance, drawing the listener in with his lightning-fast passagework and playful flourishes.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 13 Oct. 2019
• The coruscating passagework made a nice complement to Ravel’s piano writing.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2021
• Only a group of musicians who have toured together for so long – with several original members still on the bandstand – could have attained this kind of synchronicity in intricate passagework.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• Scaglione was a sympathetic partner to Ioniţă’s interpretation, buoying the cellist’s light, quick passagework and underscoring the melancholy of the slower sections of the concerto.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Kern is a pianist of muscle and blazing, headlong speed: the densest passagework cruised, even occasionally hurtling past Slatkin’s warm, firmly outlined accompaniment.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• This excellent young South Korean pianist played with fire and delicacy in equal measure, and a certain lyrical quality dominated even some of the densest passagework.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2022
• This was poetry in motion, Davis sustaining an unmistakable line even amid fleetly nimble passagework.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• Polonsky’s brilliant passagework and transparent textures suited Mozart well.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2017
• Even beyond this design, Strauss’ tone poem provides a startling range of color, from swirling strings passagework to punctuating brass exhortations to shattering climaxes for the entire ensemble.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• This piece features nimbly flowing moments in which the microphones elicit delicate passagework, as well as drones dominated by clashing dissonances or hypnotic, sustained chords.
  — New York Times, 16 July 2019
• The performer whispers text fragments into the flute, while navigating quick leaping passagework and unconventional techniques, including pitch bends, flutter tonguing and multiphonics (two or more notes produced at once).
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 22 Sep. 2021
• To achieve this kind of textural lucidity and dramatic sweep amid such heavily scored passagework — and in an outdoor environment, no less — rendered an already-powerful work that much more rhetorically effective.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2018
• Unquestionably, his technical resources are formidable; no finger-knotting chords or tricky passagework daunted him.
  — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• Chords and passagework came crashing through, always invigorating but rarely particularly poetic in their effect.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018
• The piano writing is almost frenetically brilliant; Mr. Andsnes dispatched it with such effortless command and penetrating clarity that every burst of arm-blurring octaves, every tangled patch of passagework, seemed both meaningful and fantastical.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2018
• Nothing fancy here — no silences or syncopations, no intricate passagework, no self-aggrandizing musical effects.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018

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