Sentence examples for an extended composition from inspiring English sources

Symphonie pour un homme seul, a descriptive suite about man and his activities, is an extended composition in 11 movements.

"Harmonic Meetings," a double album consisting of an extended composition and some shorter pieces, expands the music's range by adding substantial Indian elements, and by focusing on individual singers, particularly Mr. Hykes and a virtuoso of the Tibetan chanting technique, Timothy Hill.

Recalling his desert sojourn, Mr. Carter said in a 1960 interview: "I had been waiting for just such an opportunity to give form to a number of novel ideas I had had over the previous years, and to work out in an extended composition the character, expression and logic these ideas seemed to demand.

Mingus's two numbers — one an extended composition akin to the moody opening arrangement and a second on which Mingus plays piano and recites, as it bursts from melancholy peroration into a churchy stomp — mark a transition in his work.

Her extended composition "The Zodiac Suite," an answer to Ellington's "Black, Brown and Beige," merging classical and jazz idioms, debuted at Town Hall on Dec. 31, 1945.

In fact, the entire book's structure reminds me of an extended musical composition in three parts.

A pianist with a light touch and percussive attack, he seldom chose to solo himself; one of his most acclaimed works, the extended composition Fountainebleau, includes no improvisation at all.

The extended composition in seven movements "for soprano or mezzo-soprano solo, mixed choir, and orchestra (or chamber ensemble)" is based on the Latin text, interspersed with "Of a Rose, a lovely Rose", an anonymous English poem on Marian themes, the beginning of the and a prayer to Mary.

Above all, he was committed to what he called "the rich background of the Negro", which he conveyed in a host of pieces such as the early "Black and Tan Fantasy" and culminating in a concert-length masterwork, "Black, Brown and Beige".In his extended compositions, Ellington sought to assert jazz's right to the same respect as classical music.

Yes, British progressive rock band known for its extended compositions and virtuoso musicianship.

Mr. Jackson's many projects since 1980 -- his keyboard-centered hit album "Night and Day" in 1982, his extended compositions -- had the sophistication but not the bite of his first band.