Vibrato may contribute to the tendency of listeners to allow for more mistuning from singers than from violinists, but researchers have yet to test for that possibility." More research could also address a question e-mailed by reader Nathan Meleen, who asks how speakers of tonai languages, which use changes in pitch to distinguish between otherwise identical words, might fare in identifying
off-key crooning compared with speakers of nontonal languages.
His quirky style and dodgy dancing were certainly entertaining, though his voice was a bit
off-key at times.
Relegation-threatened Park played a man short for more than a half after No8 Ollie Cook was sent off for punching, but they pushed an
off-key home side all the way and led twice before clinical finishes in the 76th and 80th minutes of normal time from replacement winger Parry dashed their hopes of an upset.
Kronos did that with its Francis Scott
off-Key version of the Star Spangled Banner.
From the KLIATT review of the book, November 2004: "With a healthy dose of sarcasm and one-liners that fly by quickly, Book One of the Illmoor Chronicles introduces readers to the slightly
off-key, aptly named city of Dullitch, where the townsfolk are assassins and thieves, and proudly so, and the Duke is an ego-driven monarch who cares more about himself than anything else.
What we are watching is not so much the games themselves, whose quality has frankly been up and down, but the few European expats, pasty-faced development bankers and diplomats with soft bellies, who are accorded a momentary celebrity status, sitting at the best tables and singing obscure,
off-key patriotic songs to root their elevens on.
The notes on opener "Secrets" sound viscerally played,
off-key orchestra (cello and violin) providing texture and intrigue.
"In Sicily, they play
off-key and they're out of step," she said.
Wonder why you can tell when a singer is
off-key? Researchers at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., have found one brain area responsible: rostromedial prefrontal cortex, located just behind the forehead.
Jesus is praised via keyboard, guitar, and
off-key vocals.
Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac hits new sour notes in an already
off-key career
Harmony and discord are juxtaposed in a different way in Dimitris Tsoublekas's fastidiously executed but
off-key photographs.
It might have seemed
off-key if Sam and Fred Kamaka hadn't captured the 1992 Hawaiian Business Professional Association's O'o Award.
Elizabeth Bishop Think of the practice room, the humming
off-key of the heater, a locked-out wind's lament playing the ivories of a venetian blind.
