George Benjamin won the RPS award for large scale composition for his opera Written on Skin at the Royal Opera House.
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.
His last large-scale composition of the war years was The Fringes of the Fleet, settings of verses by Rudyard Kipling, performed with great popular success around the country, until Kipling for unexplained reasons objected to their performance in theatres.
It was nominated in 2005 in the Large-Scale Composition category of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards.
One of the more useful of such principles has been the technique of constructing large-scale compositions from transformations and developments of a single germinal motive, often merely two or three notes.
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.
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.
