percussive music.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The place was packed and noisy, with chopsticks clicking against plates in percussive counterpoint to the boisterous conversations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull] Reference

Friday’s artist is also interested in percussive string instruments but favors the harp over the piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

It helped me to develop this kind of percussive - intricate, percussive style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcus Miller Performs Live in NPR's Studio 4A] Reference

The more acceleration, the more transient noise and therefore the more "percussive" is the resulting sound.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Playing the Piano'] Reference

I want to see what shadows are cast by a Calder mobile dangling from an ear, or to hear what kind of percussive music it creates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Body Sculpture Crafted by Calder] Reference

A percussive pop, then the tinkle of broken glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Test]

I listened for the percussive evidence of flickers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cold Case]

The shots kept coming, loud and dull and percussive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Persuader]

Mr. SUBLETTE: It was very percussive, the way he played it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diddley's Beat Ba-bomps into the 21st Century] Reference

KING: Even when it's percussive, when the band isn't playing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2001] Reference

I just wanted it to be a low, sort of percussive-sounding word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Manic Dance Music, With Lasting Effects] Reference

And I'm always impressed with how percussive you are with the bass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcus Miller Performs Live in NPR's Studio 4A] Reference

The bullets are like percussive notes to the actors 'expressive faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2002] Reference

The answering percussive punch came rattling through the electromagnetic spectrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides Of Light]

She heard mortar fire, whose percussive power rose above the tapping typewriter keys.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference

There are commonly holes in the blade, which give the application a percussive effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Bill Evans 'gauzy harmonies meet Thelonious Monk's stubborn pace and percussive hammering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ran Blake: Ghosts In The Piano] Reference

From several miles in the rear there rose suddenly a thudding percussive cataract of sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference

So far as dependence upon percussive detonation is concerned there is practically no difficulty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

Dull percussive sounds, robbed of their power and impact by distance and wind and berms of earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Shot]

And obviously, the percussive blasts from several of the buildings all around that, the glass flying.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2006] Reference

She'd brought back a miniature transistor radio that filled the room with an insistent, percussive music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gorky Park]

Lively percussive currents keep songs like 'Straight to My Heart' and 'Rock Steady' moving along briskly.    From Wordnik.com.  [...Nothing Like The Sun] Reference

And, Dom Flemons, watching you play the bones - those percussive bones - it's like watching your arms dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carolina Chocolate Drops: Old-Time Music With A Twist] Reference

And so, if you're targeting that office, even the percussive blasts are going to damage any buildings around that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 22, 2006] Reference

Mr. DEACON: I just wanted a word that had no preexistent meaning, but had like, a low sort of percussive type tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Tour With Dan Deacon And His Veggie Oil Van] Reference

I was in hospital and they had a, you know, this lady would come around with percussive instruments to keep us busy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is] Reference

When it comes to singing, like, when it comes to percussive and rhythmic singing, it's like, oh, that's what Michael does.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2009] Reference

Guitarist Nuno Bettencourt of hair metal balladeers Extreme, stood sentinel, quietly tucking a percussive riff into the mix.    From Wordnik.com.  [In concert: Rihanna at Jiffy Lube Live] Reference

When it comes to singing -- like, when it comes to percussive and rhythmic singing, it's like, oh, that's what Michael does.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 28, 2009] Reference

(Soundbite of laughter) NEARY: Raul Midon singing Sunshine and playing the guitar and doing a little percussive there as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exploring the Soul of Raul Midon] Reference

JACKI LYDEN, host: Jamie Cullum, diminutive, percussive, intense, has sold more jazz records in the U.K. than any other British artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie Cullum And 'The Pursuit' Of Jazz, New And Old] Reference