Sentences with 'listeners'
Example sentences and phrases with the word listeners and other words derived from it.
• « Since the Renaissance, Western musicians had basically worked on the same set of scales. As a result, listeners were "trained" from birth to expect certain sounds and certain rhythms in music. Schoenberg deliberately subverted these expectations, inserting dissonances and unexpected notes into many of his works. »
• « In one notorious incident in 1743, an influential New Lights minister named James Davenport urged his listeners to burn books. »
• « Like many evangelical ministers, Whitefield was itinerant, travelling the countryside rather than having his own church and congregation. Between 1739 and 1740, he electrified colonial listeners with his brilliant oratory. »