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, 2017-05-10
• Rainey and Hoops showcased their warm, mellifluous tones, expertly shaped songful melodies and nailed the rapid passagework.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 2020-11-11
• Throughout his range, his tone was lovely and assured; difficult passagework seemed as straightforward as scales are to mere mortals.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2017-06-23
• Cole performed each piece with exuberance, drawing the listener in with his lightning-fast passagework and playful flourishes.
  — Jessica Rudman, courant.com, 2019-10-13
• The coruscating passagework made a nice complement to Ravel’s piano writing.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2021-10-10
• Chords and passagework came crashing through, always invigorating but rarely particularly poetic in their effect.
  — Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 2018-04-27
• 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, 2019-07-28
• 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, 2022-07-25
• 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, 2017-05-21