The author has not yet hit on the strategies of transition and counterpoint that give surprise to the later work; he has not ventured the emotional exposure that yields such a plangent music.

Standing in its sunny, graveled square, thinking of the long-ago Benedictine nuns who walked its cloister, I heard plangent medieval music from behind a convent door.

Richard Estelita's baritone was well suited to Guercoeur's plangent music, and Melissa Wilkison, a soprano, was a strong, appropriately flexible Goddess of Truth.

The wind sighed at the cliff's edge while, from the fort, there drifted a plangent and discordant music that rose and fell with the wind's vagaries.

Ms. Johnson's elegiac new "Untitled," a group work set to plangent music by Henryk Gorecki, was just as mysterious and almost as compelling.

That high-pitched, plangent music, like a mournful wind whistling across the mouth of a jar, or a curious string instrument of unknown antiquity.

In the distance, we heard that plangent music again, stealing through the old corridors of Winter Sails with its endless, persistent, hair-raising modulations.

At other times, as the actors march in a grand parade to the tune of plangent music, the play becomes a Polish variation on a Fellini film.

It blazed with light, and as they approached Blade heard a weird and plangent music that raised gooseflesh on him.

She could virtually hear wheels, hoofs, feet, raucous voices, snatches of plangent music.