The chorales are written in a style reminiscent of the later south German tradition, with the first line set imitatively.

The preludes begin almost invariably with a single motif in one of the voices which is then treated imitatively for a bar or two.

Through imitatively learning, the child comprehends that linguistic symbols are intended to focus attention to some specific aspect of the shared experience.

All four voices "discuss each phrase imitatively as a prelude to its instrumental entry", using fugal devices.

Most of the fantasias are complex, multisectional pieces, treating multiple subjects imitatively.

Hanukkah is not hugely trumpeted - except imitatively, when it is not being true to itself.

The two strings rumble melodically and imitatively beneath it, and an uncommon clarity is created.

As a child I enjoyed books and old movies and imitatively worked up my own stories both prose and in comic-book form.

I could not however, resist; but cast a sidelong glance as I carefully and imitatively shambled toward the protecting shadows ahead.

As they sat down, Fafhrd and Groniger applauded lightly in approval and the girls all clapped imitatively.

He uses double choirs in a homophonic texture, a style descended from the early Baroque Venetian School, rarely writing imitatively.

Emotional contagion is when a person (especially an infant or a member of a mob) imitatively "catches" the emotions that others are showing without necessarily recognizing this is happening.

Speech sounds can be imitatively mapped into vocal articulations in spite of vocal tract anatomy differences in size and shape due to gender, age and individual anatomical variability.

This technique, in which a motif treated imitatively "foreshadows" the entrance of the cantus firmus, later played a major part in the development of the organ chorale.

The Kyrie has the chant in all voices, imitatively and paraphrased; the Gloria treats the chant as a cantus firmus, migrating it from voice to voice.

They can try, somewhat imitatively, to "let it rip" in the American fashion or they can be ever more brilliant craftsmen in the fashion of the great writers of the past.

The second theme, piu mosso, is a very songful cantabile theme, well-suited to the cello's upper range, that is then treated imitatively by all the other instruments.

More frequently the 16th century motet practice is used: the hymn melody either migrates from one voice to another, with or without imitative inserts between verses, or is treated imitatively throughout the piece.

In 2004 and 2005, two once-grand railroad-era hotels that had become flophouses were completely renovated; a small number of the neighborhood's truly marginal inhabitants, not the imitatively marginal hipsters, still hover around their doors.

Pete quid vis, a piece of unknown origins and function, consists of a large variety of different treatments of a single theme, either treated imitatively itself, or accompanied by independently conceived imitative passages.

For example, in Magnificat settings he treats portions of the chant imitatively, and since each verse is different and presenting a decorated form of the melody, Cavazzoni's settings are effectively miniature variation sets.

Yet ricercars fall into two general types: a predominantly homophonic piece, with occasional runs and passagework, not unlike a toccata; and a sectional work in which each section begins imitatively, usually in a variation form.

The first movement begins with an imitative exposition of an original theme with an unusually wide (for a theme used imitatively) range of a twelfth and proceeds to free counterpoint with instances of fragments of the original theme.

More generally, Mr. Brink combines a superheated, miracle-filled matriarchal history of South Africa, echoing loudly and rather imitatively of Latin American magical realism, with the naturalistic, time-and-earth-bound story of Kristien's return to her grandmother's wrecked homestead.

Movements 2 and 3 (Ad te clamamus and Eya ergo) begin by treating the cantus firmus imitatively, and the opening of Eya ergo constitutes one of the earliest examples of fore-imitation: