A dedicated painter who experimented endlessly with color relationships, Mr. Albers for the last 25 years rang infinite variations on a single compositional theme — nested squares of color, whose gradations, harmonies and contrasts were for him the essence of the artistic, experience.
This compositional theme was to emerge in Leonardo's later paintings such as The Virgin and Child with St. Anne.
Their performances seem to belong to an earlier age because they go against a more common virtue in contemporary jazz: contained freedom, getting as far out as you can while keeping some semblance of form through rhythm and a theme-solos-theme compositional structure.
In fact, their joint presence offers a jolt of contemporary import, as conceptual themes and compositional styles with virtually no public profile back then have steadily gained purchase over the years.
Examining the seven from a compositional perspective, three recurring themes emerge.
Applying methods from social semiotics and text analysis, we identify the compositional means by which narrative themes of transformation, social space, and recovered origins become linked with global market forces and destination branding through communication design.
Bell: Several of the releases on SCM have a theme or unifying compositional constraint (e.g. sampling only gospel records).
From a stern and commanding mood at the beginning, Bach gradually increases the complexity of his theme, mixing in various compositional effects.
This is the dance that, in 1945, Balanchine — so devoted to theme-and-variations as a compositional method — cited as the inspiration for all his own choreography.
