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The remix featuring Justin Bieber is now in its sixth week at No. 1 on the Hot 100; Major Lazer played its own propulsive remix of the original.
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Fisher was masterful at signature guitar flourishes in Heart songs that were just as infectious as singer Ann Wilson's Valkyrie vocals and guitarist Nancy Wilson's charismatic, propulsive figures.
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The Anjum sections are linear and propulsive and often playful.
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Add to this Joe Martin's sonorous bass work and drummer Marcus Gilmore's propulsive rhythm, and Potter benefited from thoroughly buoyant accompaniment.
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Roseau Inaugurated in 1997, the World Creole Music Festival celebrates French-Caribbean genres including Dominica's indigenous lilting cadence-lypso and propulsive bouyon, zouk from neighboring Guadeloupe and Martinique and Haitian kompa.
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And today, Lynch and Frost seem even less concerned about keeping audiences on board with a propulsive or linear narrative.
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The piece equals some Mahler symphonies in length (68 minutes Saturday night, despite Alexander’s propulsive tempos in many sections).
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The music is dense, and while there's plenty of strong improvising over its 74 minutes, Mitchell's compositional presence is dominant, her propulsive meditations constructed with rigorous counterpoint.
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Origin and Etymology of propulsive
Latin propulsus, past participle of propellere
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