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Recent Examples of orchestral
The film also still had the budget to record an orchestral score by Boswell.
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Leila Jordan, IndieWire, 23 June 2025
This dynamic composition weaves together intense orchestral elements with modern beats, perfectly capturing the film’s blend of supernatural action and high energy music.
—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 14 July 2025
Beloved is almost barren of the hip-hop flourishes that peppered his earlier work, and instead leans all the way into the orchestral R&B of another time, lush with searing strings and the crash of real hi-hats.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
For the orchestral rock band Murder By Death, and its legion of fans, Saturday, Nov. 15 will no doubt be an emotional night.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
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Leila Jordan, IndieWire, 23 June 2025
This dynamic composition weaves together intense orchestral elements with modern beats, perfectly capturing the film’s blend of supernatural action and high energy music.
—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 14 July 2025
Beloved is almost barren of the hip-hop flourishes that peppered his earlier work, and instead leans all the way into the orchestral R&B of another time, lush with searing strings and the crash of real hi-hats.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2025
For the orchestral rock band Murder By Death, and its legion of fans, Saturday, Nov. 15 will no doubt be an emotional night.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for orchestral
Adjective
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His own timbre of a voice mixes well with his multiple harmonic partners and the various goofy turns he is tasked with implementing.—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
8 Aug. 2025
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Offerings range from massages and facials to sound meditation, a restorative practice that uses harmonic frequencies to quiet the mind and support nervous system regulation.—
Paula Conway,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The action takes place at a remote cabin by a lake, a location plainly meant to evoke the setting of Misery (1990), the movie’s spiritual if not tonal cousin.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Aug. 2025
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There was Big's death by Peloton in the very first episode, the diabolical caricature of a non-binary person that was podcaster/comedian Che Diaz, and a slew of both plot continuity errors and tonal inconsistencies.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
15 Aug. 2025
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There has been less research into the link between the stomach’s inherent rhythmic activity and mental well-being.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Aug. 2025
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Kind of like the Olympics’ team rhythmic gymnastics but with better throwing and balancing stunts.—
Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
15 Aug. 2025
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Byrd is the word: Revel in the polyphonic glories of William Byrd, perhaps the greatest and certainly most influential of all the English Renaissance composers, in a setting that surely would have felt home to him, as a composer of sacred songs.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
17 July 2025
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The end result is a polyphonic spree of subcontinental flavors.—
Jordan Michelman,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
4 July 2025
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Hudson buttressed Al Kooper’s original organ part into a chordal fortress, part of an incendiary performance that surges to peak after peak.—
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Learning Greene’s chordal vocabulary on this record, living in his perfect counterpoint, is a constant inspiration for me.—
Giovanni Russonello,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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How does this make any sense except as a very stupid, clumsy, idiotic no good way to give us a homophonic bridge to Gandalf.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
3 Oct. 2024
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The content creator also used a homophonic slur at several points throughout the clip.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Aug. 2024
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Jeanette Winterson, The Passion Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this lyrical novel follows a French soldier who cooks for Napoleon and a Venetian woman who steals hearts—sometimes literally.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Despite the lyrical intensity, Offset is fine with the aftermath of it all.—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.—
Seth Colter Walls,
New York Times,
26 Aug. 2022
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Widmung as an encore, with natural, songful lyricism.—
Dallas News,
Dallas News,
25 June 2022
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“Orchestral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orchestral. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.
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