(n.) One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-one instrumentalists and 51 opera singers of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, were examined, in order to study the frequency of symptoms from the musculoskeletal system and upper airways.
(2) The alveolar bone height was not significantly different for the two categories of instrumentalists in either anterior teeth or posterior teeth.
(3) Of these health professionals, 52.8% were nursing auxiliaries, 19.4%, nurses, 13.9%, nursing attendants, 5.5%, laboratory technicians, 2.8% surgery instrumentalist, 2.8% accountants and 2.8% nursing technicians.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest "I know the way that Ezra works on lyrics," says Rostam Batmanglij – multi-instrumentalist, producer, reputedly elusive interviewee.
(5) Male composers attained significantly lower mean testosterone values than male instrumentalists and male nonmusicians; female composers had significantly higher mean testosterone values than female instrumentalists and female nonmusicians.
(6) There is something hypocritical about this instrumentalist approach where the marketplace is to be the only judge.
(7) In a cross-sectional study with 117 adults and in an 8-yr longitudinal study with 120 adolescents, composers, instrumentalists, and nonmusicians of both sexes were compared by analyses of variance.
(8) Historically, the concern of wind instrumentalists has been diaphragm control and embouchure.
(9) He also won a Pioneer Award from the Academy of Country Music in 1982, nine Instrumentalist of the Year honours from the Country Music Association and innumerable Best Guitarist awards in magazines from Cash Box to Playboy.
(10) Musical composers, instrumentalists, and painters were compared with nonmusicians from a student and from an nonstudent population on testosterone levels in saliva.
(11) Singers had significantly more symptoms from mouth, lips or throat than instrumentalists, OR = 4.5 (1.7-11.5), P = 0.002.
(12) The relative participation of left- and right-hemisphere functions in verbal and spatial processing with musical composers, instrumentalists, painters, and non-musicians from student and junior high school populations was investigated.
(13) Watch Reflektor by Arcade Fire Across those nine years, much has changed about the band: members flitting in and out, the focus of their songwriting shifting to accommodate other talents — Butler's brother Will, multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry, and bassist Tim Kingsbury among them – and with each album a musical turn that has at times unsettled their devoted following.
(14) Male and female composers, instrumentalists, and painters did not differ in language lateralization.
(15) The background : Such is the frantic, busy nature of their sound, you instantly imagine Melt Yourself Down involving a lot of musicians because their songs, while sometimes indicative of beautiful gelling among the players, on other occasions suggest instrumentalists performing extracts from quite different pieces of music.
(16) There were 103 players (46%) of string instruments, 7 keyboard instrumentalists (32%), 44 players (19%) of wind instruments, and 6 percussionists (3%).
(17) Suppression of symptoms and improvement in instrumentalist's performance after beta blockade suggest that this modality would be of benefit for singers as well.
(18) Both male and female instrumentalists had a higher blood pressure.
(19) In the present study, we compare 34 singers and 48 wind instrumentalists with a control group of 31 string or percussion instrumentalists using a pulmonary questionnaire, measurements of inspiratory and expiratory pressures, and spirometry.
(20) It’s both a pro and a con of being a singer; audiences feel close and connected to you, and you can reach your listeners in a way that instrumentalists have to strive harder to do.
Sextet
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Sextetto
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous studies of oxygen-derived free radical generation based on spin-trapping methods have shown a signal formed of six bands (sextet) using electron spin resonance spectrometry (ESR) of coronary effluents collected during post-ischaemic reperfusion of isolated hearts perfused with 5,5-dimethyl-1-pyrroline N-oxide (DMPO).
(2) (1) The matrix concentration of divalent cations has been calculated from the total cation uptake, from the increase of matrix volume and from the ESR sextet signal of Mn(H2O)L2+.
(3) The ESR spectrum consists of a triplet of sextets (aN = 1.48 mT, a beta N = 0.25 mT and a beta H = 0.14 mT), indicating that the unpaired nitroxide electron interacts with the nuclei of a beta-nitrogen and beta-hydrogen.
(4) In the present study we show that, in the rat, this sextet and cytosolic iron release occur simultaneously, and that this signal can be inhibited by the iron chelator desferrioxamine.
(5) This may be responsible for the production of an artefactural signal observed as the sextet.
(6) When the sextet were reeled in with two laps to go, the final attempt at an escape came from Alex Dowsett, winner of a Tour of Britain time trial stage in London in 2010 and out to hone his form for the world championship time trial.
(7) This exhibits a quadrupole-split doublet at room temperature and both a doublet and a Zeeman-split sextet at 4.2 K, due to a distribution of particle sizes.
(8) The sextet is centrally placed about the icosahedral threefold axis, with its edges parallel to those of the facet.
(9) Using the amplitude of its characteristic sextet signal as a measure of free Mn(H2O)+6+, the apparent affinities of cardiolipin and phosphatidylserine for Mn2+ were measured as a function of monovalent electrolyte.
(10) A capsid model is proposed with each facet comprising a small p3 net of 12 hexons, arranged as a triangular sextet with three outer hexon pairs.
(11) The Mössbauer sextet species is EPR invisible and corresponds to magnetically ordered polynuclear aggregates with high magnetic anisotropy.
(12) The coefficient of variation for MDD distances was greater than that for mismatch counts for singlets but both measures approached the same low value for sextets.
(13) In addition, in any isolated condition most of the variables categorising other members of the sextet were still significantly altered in comparison with 1,049 normal subjects.
(14) Citi and Deutsche Bank, who also missed out on running the IPO, make up the sextet.
(15) In total there were 39, all of whom, aside from me and a handful of other Brits, two Swiss men and a sextet of South Africans, were Australian.