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Art/Literary - Music | | Japanese term or phrase: 高音域のクラスターが軋む | The whole sentence is as follows:
この高音域のクラスターが軋むように動き始めると、その運動が全体に広まっていく。 |
|   caseyKudoZ activityQuestions: 479 (none open) ( 20 closed without grading) Answers: 370
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| | English translation:a cluster of high notes screeching | Explanation:
I think the whole sentence would be something like this:
Once this cluster of high notes begins to move, screechingly (with a screeching sound / in a screeching sort of way / as if screeching), that movement spreads (throughout the entire orchestra??).
That's not perfectly polished, but maybe it will help...
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Note added at 1 day3 hrs (2011-04-21 11:43:50 GMT) Post-grading
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Based on your note, Casey, I'd say the cluster refers to not the notes per se but the cluster of instruments (the string quartet) that is playing them. I.e., "Once the cluster playing the high notes starts making a screeching sound, that movement spreads throughout the entire ensemble." (I know it's too late now, but for future reference...) |
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Shannon Morales
Local time: 22:20
| Grading comment Thank you. The piece is divided into four sections, with one of four string quartets playing each section.
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What's all this talk about hi-fi? - 9 1954 - Google ブック検索結果
Popular Mechanics - 第 102 巻、第 3 号 - 278 ページ - 雑誌
Every musical note is a cluster of frequencies that includes a pure tone, or fundamental, and an assortment of ... Check with a good dealer for what your installation will need in the way of angle of sound diffusion, frequency range, ...
books.google.co.jp/books?id=AeADAAAAMBAJ... - その他のブック検索結果 »
tone cluster Highly dissonant combination of pitches sounded simultaneously.
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/glossary/t.html
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Note added at 4 hrs (2011-04-20 11:46:10 GMT)
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tone cluster
Chord made up of tones only a half step or a whole step apart, used in twentieth-century music.
http://flashcarddb.com/cardset/5533-music-an-appreciation-fl...
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Note added at 4 hrs (2011-04-20 11:48:00 GMT)
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きしり‐あ・う【軋り合う】‥ｱﾌ
自五
互いにきしる。すれあう。
互いに競いあう。
広辞苑 第四版
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