Mr. Lindberg's Clarinet Quintet (1992) stressed playfulness and sinew over poetic imagery: the clarinet sprints along at a breakneck pace, the string players echoing fragmentary motifs and occasionally matching pace.
But because it exists so far only in fragmentary form, Professor Harvey said, string theory must assume that a particular space-time background exists, rather than letting one emerge naturally from the interactions of the particles.
The hidden melodies of the spoken material generate string writing that is rich in fragmentary modal tunes and gently pulsing rhythms.
In Daniel Wohl's "Glitch" flaws of recorded media — stutters, pops, crackles and further sonic detritus — inspired fragmentary lines and noisy abrasions performed by the Calder members over recorded string sounds played from a laptop.
While dismembered Scottish voices recounted fragmentary real-life anecdotes, odd tangential phrases appeared on a giant screen, and the strings and horns rose and fell as if in approximation of these already vague musings on anxiety, sex and insomnia.
Some phrases were fragmentary.
Other heroic narratives are fragmentary.
13Estimates based on fragmentary data.
Fragmentary humanity isn't humanity".
