Of form, as opposed to substance

Usage examples of modal.

In the morning, when I reached the cantina, I found the Modal Nodes already there, setting up.

In the precision of harmonic structure, he hears his own conviction that the coding problem rests on a simple look-up tableat ever lower levels, a mechanism to explain cell growth, viral piracy, symbiotic coalition government of organs, the origin of species, phone impulses broken off in panic, inexplicable behavior late in the year, fitful inspiration, the continuous cold modal rapture in chords, in vivo.

Nevertheless, they go through the motions, set out a wassail bowl, paper cups depicting Santa Claus in various postures of levity, a herd of wax reindeer, and a university record player on which Toveh Botkin, music committee, keeps up a stream of modal progressions insisting glad tidings of great joy.

Strat, she found old songs and melodies from her training with Sruitmor, the straightforward modal airs of the Corca Duibne school.

Christa sought to catch Orfide off guard, but he followed her effortlessly, matching her chromatics with abrupt modal shifts, expanding his tactics to include the full voice of his harp: all the modes, rather than the few customarily used for defense and combat.

Somewhere there was music playing, a modal dirge from the doomboom of the twenty twenties.

He paused often to comment on the varying rhythm patterns, the assonantal rhymes, and the modal melodies.

Give the interval of statistical weightedness, or a modal distribution, of the influence of the differences on our chances for contact.

Phaid had last been in the Republic, the form of music was a kind of nasal, modal singing to the accompaniment of a twelve tone Sievian harp.

In the morning, when I reached the cantina, I found the Modal Nodes already there, setting up.

We accept money, approved modal barter, agalmic kudos metrics, temporal futures, and—"

She gave an odd little quivering sigh as I went into her, a husky sound that seemed to hit several notes at once, like a sound from one of those medieval Indian instruments that were tuned only to minor keys and produced sad twanging modal tone clusters.

He uses well-tempered tuning as a starting point, takes off from there into the deepest realms of advanced number theory, circles back all of a sudden to the Qwghlmian modal scale, just to keep them on their toes, and then goes screaming straight back into number theory again.

And Modal, sitting on the couch next to him, was bright-eyed and alert, thinking only of how much money and power would come to him as Minister of Industry once the rearmament program went into full speed.