The saxophonist Wayne Shorter, a sphinxlike figure who has turned increasingly to large-scale composition and rarely appears in small-group jazz settings that are worthy of him, played the saxophone.
George Benjamin won the RPS award for large scale composition for his opera Written on Skin at the Royal Opera House.
The resulting style was especially suitable for large-scale compositions and practically dominated Japanese painting for the next 300 years.
The work described in this paper is part of a middleware project[6] that aims at implementing both of these tasks (determining functional bindings and optimal binding choice) on ultra large scale compositions of WSs.
The winners in the composing categories were Irish composer Barry in the large-scale composition section, for The Importance of Being Earnest, and Berlin-based Briton Saunders in the chamber-scale section for the "new kind of language" she explores in Fletch, which premiered at Wigmore Hall in November.
Jonathan Harvey won the large-scale composition award for Messages, "a work of exceptional epic and spiritual quality", according to the judges.
I would describe it as orchestral, even though there are no orchestras: the scope and colour of his writing is as rich as any large-scale composition.
Wolff writes: "Bach experimented with the St John Passion as he did with no other large-scale composition", possible by the work's structure with the Gospel text as its backbone and interspersed features that could be exchanged.
For one, every large-scale composition assumed artistic significance of a type previously accorded only a whole series of works, sometimes a composer's entire output.
Yet the debut of "SOUNDspace," her first evening-length work, at Danspace Project in January, revealed a promising grasp of large-scale composition.
With the gradual abandonment of isorhythm (that is, the repetition of a large-scale rhythmic pattern throughout a piece) as an organizing principle in the 1430s, the focus of large-scale composition shifted to the Roman Catholic mass.
