The phrase "a concept piece" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a work of art, writing, or design that explores a specific idea or theme, often in a creative or experimental way.
Example: "The gallery is showcasing a concept piece that challenges traditional notions of beauty and perception."
Alternatives: "an idea piece" or "a thematic work".
It was originally devised as a concept piece about Johnny Cutler, a fictitious and flawed figure from the deep south.
With the Penhall play, the reason was that the play is, in more than one sense, a concept piece: set in a maternity ward and beginning with a startling, physically impossible visual image.
This LP is a concept piece, inspired by Jodorowsky's El Topo, that follows a New York street kid's journey into a dark, mystical underground realm to rescue his brother from horrific beasts.
Instead the band locked everyone out and wrote 2112, an album whose entire first side was taken up by a concept piece about a brutally dystopian future in which a group of elite priests exert total control over the meek and mediocre: excellence and individualism have been traded in for a numb, cowardly security.
The second CD is devoted to a concept piece called A Sky of Honey in which virtually nothing happens, albeit very beautifully, with delicious string arrangements, hymnal piano chords, joyous choruses and bursts of flamenco guitar: the sun comes up, birds sing, Bush watches a pavement artist at work, it rains, Bush has a moonlight swim and watches the sun come up again.
It's a concept piece billed as "a disposable timepiece that is worn on the user's thumbnail.
Then there were the middling bits, like a Killzone trailer or a quirky concept piece from Media Molecule to talk about the Move controller.
Who doesn't love a good concept piece?
But it's clear that if Tarczewski wants to create a high concept piece of surreal science fiction, then he definitely has the animation and effects chops to pull it off.
Now comes arguably their most original album, an Irish-Latin concept piece that involves an impressive array of Mexican musicians and a handful of Americans, including Ry Cooder, who co-produced this intriguingly varied set with the Chieftains' Paddy Moloney.
The last album by the Alabama rock band Drive-By Truckers, "Southern Rock Opera," was about as ambitious as rock music gets these days: a two-CD concept piece about the rise and fall of a Lynyrd Skynyrd-like band, filled with meaty riffs and passionate vocals.
