The saffron color recalls the park in fall foliage, a particularly expressive device when set against a mélange of February-bare trees.

In the 18th and 19th centuries it was an expressive device, used to inflect long notes or to underline especially passionate moments.

Split screen can be used not as an overt, expressive visual device, but for illusion.

Now it has become the reclaiming of our entire past for present purposes, the opening up of a new palette of expressive devices.

Many composers from the late 16th century onwards however began deliberately using the effect as an expressive device in their word setting.

The idea was to play all the notes exactly as written, bring out the architectural design of the music and keep expressive devices to a minimum.

As expressive devices he uses direction, volume, rhythm and color.

Conspiracy theorists might conclude that Beethoven knew full well of his music's unsingability and used this added factor as an expressive device.

Being expressionless in music like this is sometimes the most expressive device of all.

Also very much in style is her use of vibrato as an expressive device.