Sentence examples for classical rituals from inspiring English sources
From his T-shirt to his funny, raw confessions, he ignores classical rituals, and would be easy to type as one of the music's damaged geniuses: C4's Glenn Gould.
Indeed, in my view, the chief limitation of the classical ritual is its prescriptive quality; it supposes that all great works of music are essentially the same, that they can be placed upon a pedestal of a certain shape.
More likely, though, this tableau is a deadpan satire of the reverential classical-music rituals that arose in Wagner's wake.
All this rhetoric still resonates today, for the classical-music ritual has evolved perilously little in the past hundred years.
Compared with the classical learning and rituals of the Confucians, the speculative metaphysics of Yin-Yang thinkers, and the romantic nature mysticism and literary sophistication of the Daoists, Mohism offered little to attract adherents, especially politically powerful ones.
Within days of the attacks, memorial events were held in concert halls throughout the country, vividly confirming an often forgotten attribute of classical music: its ritual power.
Topics include urban planning in Paris; the chateau and classical garden; Versailles; ritual forms of the monarchy; ideology and iconography of Louis XIV; the rise of the Academies; the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns.
The episodes they recount, so often set amid vistas of piercing natural beauty, also tell of the refined recreations and aristocratic rituals of classical Japan.
Bronze and stone sculptures from Indonesia's classical era, architectural and ritual woodcarvings, masks and puppets, and textiles.
One of the cultural icons most deeply associated with classical music is the ritual of an orchestra tuning prior to a concert.
