Sentence examples for instrumental composition of from inspiring English sources

In 1873, while waiting in a Naples hotel for a production of Aida, Verdi wrote a string quartet, the only instrumental composition of his maturity.

and instrumental compositions of classical music (strings, winds, etc).

Possibly the most successful attempt to regenerate Beethovenian procedures without the total abandonment of functional tonality is represented by the string quartets and certain other instrumental compositions of Bartók.

Since at least the invention of the bicinium, the two-part vocal or instrumental compositions of the Renaissance and early Baroque, duets have been an integral part of learning to play an instrument or sing, and have been included in most etude, method, and music theory books for at least six centuries.

December 6th and 10th: Meredith Monk's "On Behalf of Nature," at BAM, used song, dance, and instrumental composition to evoke the fragile immensity of the natural landscape.

Since the early 17th century there were dozens of operas, arias and instrumental compositions on the subject.

There's a cracked self-portrait ("Mr. Gruberschnickel"), a broken love song based on a preposterous pun ("Tequila Mockinbird"), a scene piece worthy of Jimmy Webb ("Albuquerque"), and a pair of instrumental compositions to wrap the whole thing up, one for kazoo ("D.H.S").

He got to stretch his own wings as a composer, most extensively perhaps with half an album's worth of instrumental compositions for the "Yellow Submarine" animated film in 1968.

Broken chords (i.e., chords broken up melodically into their intervallic components) have long furnished basic motivic materials for instrumental compositions, especially of the homophonic variety conceived in terms of the diatonic harmonic system that governed the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when triadic themes were favoured.

But as the style of instrumental composition changed during the 17th century, an expressive, vocal sound in the soprano register was emphasized, and the tenor and treble viols declined in favour of the violin, with which they were unable to compete because their deep bodies created a hollow, nasal timbre.

But the structure is more common in independent instrumental compositions, often of considerable dimensions (e.g., Beethoven's Diabelli Variations for piano).