One by one, all clad in white, they hovered gracefully in mid-air as ethereal music played in accompaniment.

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Often the mechanical theatrics took inspiration from popular theatrical events like the circus, featuring automaton clowns performing acrobatic feats to the accompaniment of music.

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The wheat is washed with prayers the preceding day, and then carried to a large stone mortar, to the accompaniment of music from the davul drum and zurna double-reed pipe.

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Morris dancing involves teams of dancers - often wearing hats and bells on their legs - wielding handkerchiefs, sticks or swords, to the accompaniment of folk music.

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To the accompaniment of baroque recorder music piped through the building, Tetsuo Shimokawa, the chairman of Dogin, a local bank, blames poor communications with the rest of Japan for the island's woes.

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They play tricks and dance to the accompaniment of the Baroque-era music of the Jesuit missions, then around midnight fireworks pop from the top of their wide-brimmed hats, symbolizing the gift of light and vision to live respectfully.

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Igor Stravinsky's introductory music serves more as atmospheric soundtrack than as direct accompaniment when Ivan is bewildered and seemingly distracted by longings that twist and animate his body.

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Rarely has music been used so well as the universal language it is, but also as a maddening accompaniment to a dialogue of the deaf.

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