Sentence examples for exposition and development from inspiring English sources

Normally a cadenza comes only after exposition and development have prepared the audience for an eruption of virtuosity.

But what many listeners still find challenging is the lack of discernible exposition and development, as in "Rothko Chapel".

Identifying Wolff as an academic philosopher is helpful in understanding the exposition and development of his philosophical views.

The movement is the most economical of all: the exposition and development commence with nearly identical passages and conclude in exactly the same way.

As in an oratorio, the written text in a choral symphony can be as important as the music, and the chorus and soloists can participate equally with the instruments in the exposition and development of musical ideas.

They have been described as being based superficially on either the fugue or the sonata-allegro form, but they differ from the normal application of those forms in that the exposition and development of themes are guided not by conventional tonal principles but by the way the themes, in the words of the musicologist Simon John Abrahams, "battle with each other for domination of the texture".

Stravinsky, in his 1962 book "Expositions and Developments," written with Robert Craft, recalled that when Diaghilev suggested to him that he turn to Pergolesi, he, Stravinsky a proud modernist wanted no part of such eighteenth-century prettiness.

By Winthrop Sargeant The New Yorker, March 3, 1962 P. 118 The 3rd volume of Stravinsky's reminiscences & thought about his art, set down in question-and-answer form by Robert Craft, is now off the press, under the title of "Expositions and Developments".

I assume that film-makers are spending more time on exposition and character development because of their current competition: the long-form TV series.

The cardinal rule that cut scenes should be used for exposition and character development, and not action sequences, is routinely violated.

The slow exposition and character development that occupy the first two-thirds of the play are perfectly modulated; it is only during and after the key scene in which Hally betrays Sam that things start to lose total credibility.