Sentence examples for compose a work from inspiring English sources

He decided to compose a work whose themes were the most basic musical units: scales.

After they discussed a number of texts, from the Bible to Nostradamus, Mr. Runestad realized he wanted to compose a work honoring combat veterans.

It took some doing, but the patron Alice Tully persuaded Messiaen to compose a work in anticipation of the American bicentennial.

So "it wasn't such a strange notion to compose a work which consists of lots and lots of small pieces of music which have the potential for overlapping in various combinations," he said.

Mr. Rauschenberg has stipulated that the shufflers must compose a work that consists of at least three and no more than seven panels, and each installer must be credited as the composer of that work.

Beginning in the late 1960's, he and his producer, Teo Macero, used the studio not just to correct errors but "to compose a work that was often larger and more formally complex than what was imagined as they recorded".

It's not often you can hear a concert by the great trumpeter, Håkan Hardenberger, and meet the composer, HK Gruber, too, who has composed a work, Exposed Throat (2000) especially for him.

Franz Schubert first composed a work for money at the age of 19.

An infinite number, just as always endless are the hues and nuances composing a work of art".

The piece formed a backdrop to an impassioned anti-war staging directed by Peter Sellars, while Arvo Pärt composed a work in its honour.

Maazel subsequently composed a work for flute and orchestra that was premiered by James Galway, and for violin and orchestra for which he played the violin himself.