Sentence examples for large-scale composition from inspiring English sources

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.

Jonathan Harvey won the large-scale composition award for Messages, "a work of exceptional epic and spiritual quality", according to the judges.

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.

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.

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 resulting style was especially suitable for large-scale compositions and practically dominated Japanese painting for the next 300 years.

This was a concert by Mr. Young's earnest, devotionally intended but not very compelling raga ensemble, rather than one of his own profoundly weird, profoundly hypnotic large-scale compositions.

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.

His discography has expanded to include large-scale compositions like the Catholic mystery opera "Verkündigung" ("Annunciation"), the bewildering but intoxicating comedy "Prinzessin Brambilla," a large-scale set of muscular but sumptuous orchestral variations on a theme of Berlioz ("Phantastische Erscheinungen Eines Themas von Hector Berlioz") and the majestic Te Deum as well as chamber music.

These large-scale compositions are similar to medleys, but there is typically more thematic unity between the sections.