Sentence examples for composer's voice from inspiring English sources

The sin of sins, in his view, is when a lyric forces you to hear the composer's voice rather than the character's, a self-confessed failing of his.

It is hard to describe what makes a composer's voice authentic, but you know it when you hear it.

Messiaen's birds don't fly, and they sing only in the composer's voice.

He produced two of the 20th century's most influential books about Western music, Musical Form and Musical Performance and The Composer's Voice.

Evaluating Student Outcomes of UC Berkeley's Fall Program for Freshmen" Music Studies Colloquium: Seth Brodsky (University of Chicago), "There Is No Such Thing As The Composer's Voice".

He produced two of the 20th century's most influential books about Western music, "Musical Form and Musical Performance" (1968) and "The Composer's Voice" (1974), Burnham said.

Suddenly the speakers fill with a recording of composer John Cage's voice: "And he said, 'Putting all these sounds together, aren't you afraid that you are going to get white noise?' And I said, 'I'm sure it will be noise, but I doubt whether it'll be white.'" An appropriate introduction.

First, Mr. Kriesberg assumes that the broader cultural environment is the opponent of a composer's private voice.

The debts to Chopin and the Russian orientalists are at times over-apparent, though the work also contains the famous Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, in which the composer's mature voice suddenly rings out loud and clear.

And he was nearly as harsh on works by non-Hollywood composers, criticizing Richard Danielpour's "Voice of Remembrance" as "a succession of familiar moods and feelings".

Such nuances are emphasised by the canny anti-production values of The Randy Newman Songbook Vol One (Nonesuch, £13.99): just the composer's piano and voice for 15 songs and four brief instrumentals.