All aboard! Time for another whirl on the music cliche train.Our next stop will be "spare," often paired with "arrangement," a coupling ordinarily used in folk and punk writeups to describe a minimalist approach to instrumentation.
In Medieval Latin, the following examples would be referred to as vocabularius vomitus:
"The group built their sound by combining harmony, spare arrangements."
"Most of his inspirations dwell in the '70s, favoring spare arrangements and elegant string flourishes."
"But those descriptions imply that The Coroner's Gambit is pleasant singer/songwriter craft-- all spare arrangements and lilting whims."
"And the spare arrangements, most of which feature Mishka's acoustic guitar, have a nicely evocative downhome feel to them."
"Anyway, the cooing chorus and spare arrangement leave you feeling content."
Ooh, how those spare arrangements get to me! They leave me feeling just ... so ... content.
If only I could say the same for spare vocabularies.
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