A dance beat drives some songs; others dissolve into sheer sound.

Certainly, sheer sound for its own sake was at the top.

Not as we have come to think of music, able to make a coherent effect through sheer sound.

However, her style is more lyrical, and more dependent on sheer vocal sound.

Now and then you wanted more sheer sound and definition.

Still, the trio reveled in the sheer sound of it.

The Liszt, in turn, had big, generous ideas, even if the sheer sounds were not always able to match them.

From the passion and the control to just the sheer sound of her soprano voice, this was not singing one hears every night.

That said, and despite fine individual work from Tuesday's musicians, the sheer sound of their playing was a jolt.

He's a wild fantasist and in love with the sheer sound of words.