The ensemble performed Bach's "Goldberg Variationss, a work consisting of 30 inventive treatments of one theme for solo keyboard.
Recently a composer in Beacon, N.Y., Joseph Bertolozzi, created a work consisting of percussive sounds made on a Hudson River bridge.
It's hard to imagine that a work consisting of 52 trumpets could be a "chamber" version of anything, but Henry Brant's imagination was large scale.
It denotes a theatrical work consisting of a dramatic text, or libretto ("booklet"), that has been set to music and staged with scenery, costumes, and movement.
Aristotle wrote a work in three volumes on the philosophy of Archytas, more than on any other of his predecessors, as well as a second work, consisting of a summary of Plato's Timaeus and the writings of Archytas (A13).
On the Measurement of a Circle This is a short work consisting of three propositions.
The centerpiece here is a circular work consisting of hundreds of vertical steel rods, each with a golden bronze tip, which grow taller as they progress concentrically from the center.
12. Patisambhida-magga ("Way of Analysis"), a late work consisting of 30 chapters of Abhidhamma or scholastic-like analysis, of various doctrinal concepts.
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind," a 1991 work consisting of two cow heads preserved in formaldehyde, sold to an unidentified buyer for $552,500, far above its $400,000 high estimate.
Ms. Weems's 1995-96 project "From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried," part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, is a layered work consisting of about 30 representations of African-Americans in the history of American photography.
Muybridge won a patent for the camera mechanism he invented in the making of "Animal Locomotion," a body of work consisting of 781 plates (a selection will be on display at SFMOMA).
