Sentence examples for musical documents from inspiring English sources

But beyond his eccentricities, his legacy of nearly 80 CBS recordings is among the most significant and challenging musical documents of our time.

Today those albums stand with the work of Public Enemy and Ice Cube as defining musical documents of the Reagan-Bush-era black consciousness, with songs that howl out at racism and the crack epidemic.

Whatever motivated this dramatic departure from traditional monophony (music consisting of a single voice part), it was an established practice when it was described in Musica enchiriadis (c. 900), a manual for singers and one of the major musical documents of the Middle Ages.

Such an expansion of the term opera was apparently necessary to accommodate the unfortunate dearth of musical documents to support their thesis.

It also casts reasonable doubt upon the authenticity of certain musical documents attributed to Stravinsky, including recordings made under his direction, the pianola rolls described by Lawson, the revisions of major works such as "The Rite of Spring" (described in this anthology by Louis Cyr), and transcriptions putatively made by the composer.

The film is not, however, primarily a musical document - and, when they first set out, its makers were not aware how the story would end.

The film is not, however, primarily a musical document, and its makers were certainly not aware when they began how the story would end.

It is also a musical document, with characters that play the piano or devote a great deal of energy to considering which CDs they'd want to bring with them to a desert island.

I think of it as cheating history: the ability to frame a single edition in such a way as to read it as a historical, social and musical document only a month or two after publication – imagine what conclusions someone 100 years from now might make about the priorities and preoccupations of our society.

Let this musical document free you.

Eroticas irrefutable unsexiness probably says more about the sex=death mentality of the early '90s than any other musical document of its time.