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Example sentences for "trombone"

Lexicographically close words:
trollops; trolls; trolly; trom; tromba; trombones; trompe; tromped; tromper; tromple
  1. Beethoven had probably found the aria "Erzittre, Erde" to fail of its intended effect, and added the trombone on the morning of the final rehearsal, to be retained or not as should prove advisable upon trial.

  2. At the concert the trombone parts were played from these sheets.

  3. A bass trombone in F, a fourth lower than the tenor trombone.

  4. Then the three sing together, the second player imitating the sound of a trombone and the appearance of a trombone player.

  5. Then the conductor says, pointing to another player, "and the big trombone played this simple melody.

  6. She her trombone doth forget-- She is mute.

  7. Joachim goes the day after tomorrow to Berlin; Cossmann is in Paris; and Nabich [The first trombone player of the Weimar orchestra, and a most admirable performer on his instrument.

  8. To be a member of the trombone choir is the highest honour a young Moravian can aspire to.

  9. I suspect he is the leader or the conductor of the trombone choir.

  10. All announcements are made from the tower with the aid of the trombone choir.

  11. I have the honour of knowing several of the trombone choir.

  12. By rights I is Pike Canfield, but folks calls me Trombone eveh since me an' de name got famous.

  13. Ten minutes later Trombone and the Wildcat, leading Lily, were at the outer door of the Temple of Luck.

  14. Call me Trombone when you calls confidential," his companion replied.

  15. A little late at the Sutter Street lunch counter by reason of his added responsibilities at the dock, the Wildcat had found his friend Trombone impatiently awaiting him.

  16. Then, under his breath, "Dam 'at Trombone nigger.

  17. Half way through his discourse he was interrupted by Trombone Pike, who craved to get his hundred dollars before the flight of Honey Tone's imagination lifted the soopreem one above paltry things like financial obligations.

  18. In the latter place it was that the trombone parts were lost.

  19. The trombone parts of the last movement were missing, but Wagner subsequently discovered the key to the leading of these voices in the elaborately contrapuntal scheme of the movement and rewrote them.

  20. Trombone Mose, the biggest negro, was set busy with a can of paint obliterating the name Narcissus from the bow, and substituting the name Hula Hula, and the others congregated aft and became intently involved in a game of craps.

  21. And from trombone and saxaphone ceaselessly whined a blended melody, sometimes riotous and jubilant, sometimes haunting and plaintive as a death-dance from the Congo's heart.

  22. He umpah umps with the conventional trombone fatalism.

  23. And tonight the trombone player plays what he will play a thousand nights from tonight--umpah ump.

  24. Rodey gets a sort of combination alto and tenor harmony out of that old trombone that brings the home folks right into the meeting.

  25. Rodeheaver, Billy Sunday’s trombone expert, to put a new touch to it.

  26. He then discharged his trombone just over my head, so that for a moment I thought myself shot, and then with an awful shout, they both galloped away, their horses leaping over the barrancos, as if possessed with many devils.

  27. He was obliged to speak loudly in order to be heard over the trombone and the drums.

  28. A trombone blatted--there was the staccato tuck of a snare drum, and the boom of a bass drum came in with isochronal beats.

  29. A unique novelty was the Contra Trombone on the Pedal of 64 feet actual length.

  30. I've seen a churchyard yield its dead, And lifeless nuns in life rejoice; I've seen a statue bow its head, And listened to its trombone voice.

  31. Thiele, in short, is excellent, and known all through Switzerland as a trombone genius.

  32. Mr. Whiffles's instructions were to keep his eyes on the other trombone and imitate his movements exactly; but unfortunately the other trombone was a substitute also.

  33. The old English name of the trombone is sackbut.

  34. The fundamental tones of the trombone are called "pedal" notes.

  35. Wagner, who has made several important innovations in writing for bass brass instruments, requires an octave bass trombone in B flat; an octave lower than the tenor one, in the "Nibelungen.

  36. The contents of this letter, written on Christmas eve, when the frog that played the trombone had been sitting on the corner of my desk for just a year, was as startling as its manner was strange.

  37. I laid my cigar down on the brownish-yellow shell, at the crinkled edge of which the green frog was sitting, reaching out his broken arms for the trombone whereon he had played in happier days.

  38. Despite its musical assertiveness, the function of the frog that played the trombone was humble enough: the shell was designed to serve as a receiver for the ashes of cigars and cigarettes.

  39. Time was when the frog held in his long greenish-yellow arms a still longer trombone made of bright brass wire, bent into shape, and tipped with a flaring disk of gilded porcelain.

  40. But it is a score of years at least since the china frog has held the brass trombone to its open lips.

  41. You remember how I used to think the frog that played the trombone was trying to execute a Heine-Schubert song?

  42. The trombone solo was a shout of victory: it imparted new life to the sunken orchestra.

  43. The man who could extract music from a trombone could get grapes out of a coal-mine.

  44. When I speak of the place of the trombone in the band I am not referring to his site or locality.

  45. But the trombone introduces the hard practical note, the necessary corrective.

  46. Then again the trombone is employed as a sort of brake when in a moment of excitement the rest of the orchestra has a tendency to overdo things.

  47. Mozart with the seven notes of his one trombone suggested the same idea and the suggestion is sufficient.

  48. And we must remember this fact, if we would not be irritated by the oddities of L'Hostias, with its deep trombone notes which seem to come from the very depths of Hell.

  49. Grosse must not fail to be there likewise, nor his trombone box, which I have specially had in my mind ever since the journey to Paris.

  50. Grosses trombone no doubt officiated brilliantly at Bulow's concert and at the performance of Berlioz's opera!

  51. I immediately set to work at it, and out of my "Cantico" has now arisen a Concertante piece for Trombone and Organ.

  52. The large bore of the trombone gives great volume to the tone, the small bore of the trumpet great brilliancy, the medium bore of the horn veils the brilliancy on one hand and lightens the thickness of tone on the other.


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