Sentence examples for musical characterization from inspiring English sources

Music and Dance BRONXVILLE Bronxville Women's Club "Birds and Bees," family concert of musical characterization of animals and the work of children's composer Seymour Barab.

Mr. Thielemann, who has strong interpretive ideas about Germanic masterworks, strove for a weighty gravity, somewhat like Furtwängler's approach to the score, with bold manipulations of tempo, striking attention to inner details and textures and vivid musical characterization.

November 14, 1900 New York City, New York December 2 , 1990North Tarrytown, New York Aaron Copland, (born Nov. 14, 1900, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 2, 1990, North Tarrytown [now Sleepy Hollow], N.Y.) American composer who achieved a distinctive musical characterization of American themes in an expressive modern style.

After all, Messiaen's "Traquet Stapazin" is concerned as much with the chordal evocation of passing time as with musical characterization of bird song, and "Vallée d'Obermann" uses similar (if less dissonant) materials to chart time through a dramatic series of mood changes.

While he called the storm scene "trite and unoriginal", the musical characterization of Prospero "very ordinary" and pointed out "a very banal cadence" near the end of the piece "straight out of some awful Italian opera finale", he called all these matters "minor quibbles.

In the sharpness of their musical characterizations, the Leipzigers outclassed the Viennese, who did not have their best outing in the all-Bartók program I heard.

The work draws heavily on Mozart in its musical characterizations, in specific gestures and in its use of Tamino's flute and Papageno's equally magic bells to drive the plot.

With such a sweeping canvas, the musical's characterizations are necessarily two-dimensional; the actors must bring a vivid sense of personality to their roles.

He perched on a stool to one side of the stage, narrating with musical instincts and genuinely amusing characterizations.

If Ms. Zori sought to enchant through her musical commitment and her varied characterizations, Frank Huang's recital the next night in Alice Tully Hall beguiled with old-fashioned virtuoso flair.

Several others among his comedies are also notable for their musical invention, genuine comic energy, and farcical characterization: L'Italiana in Algeri (1813; "The Italian Girl in Algiers, IlIl Turco in Italia (1814; "The Turk in Italy"), and La cenerentola (1817; Cinderella).