Sentence examples for his transposition from inspiring English sources

But his radical use of language and his transposition of the banal and the unnerving set a precedent.

Through his transposition of Joseph Conrad's 1902 novella —a framed narrative recounting the horrors encountered on a trip by an English ivory company to the heart of Africa, where they are to relieve a mysterious representative who has gone AWOL Francis Ford Coppola relocated the setting to war-addled Vietnam to provide apt commentary on the savagery involved in American imperialistic endeavors.

It turned out to be Silberman's biggest box-office success, allowing him to use most of his own money to help Kurosawa realise his dream of making Ran (1985), his stunning transposition of King Lear to 16th-century Japan, the most expensive Japanese film up till then.

Arneson is represented by a panoply of ceramic sculptures and reliefs that attest to his slippery, multifaceted talent as well as his vigorous transpositions of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Developments in modern French music were a major influence on Messiaen, particularly the music of Claude Debussy and his use of the whole-tone scale (which Messiaen called Mode 1 in his modes of limited transposition).

Fifty years elapsed before Matthew Baillie published his account of complete transposition in a human of the thoracic and abdominal viscera to the opposite side from what is natural.

A great cover by an artist isn't a mere transposition of his or her work but an image that adapts to the rules of media and marketing, and that also echoes the music.

Discussing the first transposition of his Mode 2 in a series of interviews with the critic Claude Samuel, Messiaen defined it as "blue-violet rocks speckled with little gray cubes, cobalt blue, deep Prussian blue, highlighted by a bit of violet-purple, gold red, ruby and stars of mauve, black and white".

These exhibit Messiaen's use of his modes of limited transposition and palindromic rhythms (Messiaen called these non-retrogradable rhythms).

He asked each for scales, a prepared piece, some sight reading and transposition, then made his decisions on the spot.

Now the preparatory work was divorced from the execution: the artist submitted his cartoon and left its transposition into mosaic to artisans.