The very word cantabile emphasizes, by antithesis, the unvocal character of the old florid style. |
This process was at first an obvious makeshift and can be detected as such because of the characteristically instrumental nature of the lower three parts, with numerous unvocal skips and contours. |
In the second-story front room at Mrs. McKee's, the barytone slept heavily, and made divers unvocal sounds. |
The suppressed voice of the suburb is a very English sensibility: quiet, unvocal, almost – but not quite – apologetic. |