Example sentences for: bach

How can you use “bach” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Moreover, if it is deemed advisable to have the names in alphabetical order to make it easy to find a given street, it would be a simple matter to put Karachi Street between Istanbul and Lisbon Streets, Bach Boulevard between Jerusalem and Copland Boulevards followed by Debussy .

  • The low part of the higher mind that Pynchon so pyrotechnically appeals to (the same part that responds to Escher drawings, PDQ Bach, and perspective-switching holograms) is not a part of myself I'm in touch with, nor do I particularly long to be.

  • His passacaglia sounds less like Bach than like Bruckner imitating Bach.

  • Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.

  • We hear a lot of musical quotations--from Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to Leonard Bernstein's Candide to Bob Dylan and Duke Ellington--that bounce around a theme from the "Ricercare" of Bach's Musical Offering . Images that would work well on album covers fly by on big screens --the moon, a baby, the great red spot of Jupiter.


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