It is symmetrically broken into five movements or acts.
"Naqoyqatsi," which opens today in Manhattan and Los Angeles, is divided into three movements.
Like the poem, the symphony is divided into six movements, each movement itself sub-divided, but many of the movements fade or blur into each other.
Instead, it reworks the songs into five movements, drawing on their harmonies but rarely giving you a hint of their actual melodies.
At 50, Shields' life divides into three movements: he spent his first 10 years in Queens, New York, the next decade in Dublin and the remaining time in London.
Mahjoub has organised this little chaos very effectively into three movements, punctuated by epistolary passages from Rachel that lead Jade "from the chaos of her present into the labyrinth of her past".
The dance itself, which included memorable duets for Julie Diana with Mr. Torrado and for Ms. Ochoa with Francis Veyette, was packed into seven movements — or perhaps crammed is the word.
Structurally, the book respects céol mòr's division into four movements, beginning with a section called "Urlar" (the "ground"), which establishes the main theme and musical ideas for all that follows.
From a collage of excerpts in Spanish translation from Kafka's text, Ginastera created a patchwork of dreams and longings that he shaped into five movements and scored with amazing imagination, using his experience of electronic music to create a shimmering, enchanted orchestral sound world.
