Her melodic continuity fails, and the plangent oboe serves as a temporary substitute during a pause for recovery.
Its mesmeric pedal point gave rise to luminescent overtone patterns, with a whirlwind of ornamental gestures leading to silences, sustained reflective individual pitches, tinged with plangent dissonance.
It's a pleasurably predictable formula, kept afloat by plangent orchestration, glorious cinematography, and a continuous supply of death-beds and simple outback funerals.
It is written in firmly woven but intensely emotionalized blank verse interspersed with plangent lyrics.
The sound of these imperious little-princess voices blended in idle chitchat is plangent, evocative.
Bumbry's voice was rich and sizable, possessing a wide range, and was capable of producing a very distinctive plangent tone.
Even here, however, it is by no means clear whether the verse is meant to be plangent or jolly and this helps the poem to recover somewhat after this low-point.
