Sentence examples for ensemble of instruments from inspiring English sources

For pure curiosity value, it is hard to top "DELUSION OF THE FURY," which HARRY PARTCH wrote in 1969 for an ensemble of instruments he invented himself, and for which there is no actual libretto.

He was also thinking about a kind of Indonesian puppet show that lasts eight hours and is performed by a puppeteer on a complex ensemble of instruments called a gamelan.

This tense, skittish and pointillist piece from the early 1980s is like a series of dialogues in fits and starts for a large ensemble of instruments, grouped by category and separated onstage.

(Schweitzer) ★ Early Music New York (Sunday) This fine period ensemble of instruments and voices has established a tradition of warm, illuminating Christmas programs, several of which it has documented on recordings over the years.

At 8 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500, 92y.org; $25 to $52. (Tommasini) Early Music New York (Saturday and Sunday) This fine period ensemble of instruments and voices has established a tradition of warm, illuminating Christmas programs, several of which it has documented on recordings.

A few plays, notably Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Cymbeline, indicate specific consorts (ensembles) of instruments.

These instruments, one of the first ensembles of instruments yet discovered, include nine lyres, two harps, a silver double flute, sistra and cymbals.

It was played by an ensemble of nine instruments, including piano, with additional Arabic percussion instruments.

During an exclusive phone interview, Yo Yo Ma told me that Janov-Janovsky draws on many of the same traditions Stravinsky drew on in the Rite of Spring, but written for an ensemble of 13 instruments (including shakuhachi, sheng, pipa and three percussion instruments) instead of a whole orchestra, reflecting today's faster global, internet world.

There followed the slightly later "Sequence" for soprano embedded in an ensemble of percussive instruments with violin and cello.

And with an ensemble of six instruments, Mr. Eaton often chooses to keep the writing minimal and thin.