Sentence examples for musical science from inspiring English sources

Finally, in Leipzig, in his last decade, he withdrew as much as he could from his responsibilities as cantor of the St. Thomas School and director of music at Leipzig's principal churches, to create grand summations of musical science in "The Art of Fugue" and the B minor Mass.

Wolff takes this literally, asserting not only that Bach wrote extraordinarily learned music but that he was engaged in a lifelong project to master "musical science," to determine the laws of this sonic universe, outline the principles used for its exploration and categorize the structures being created.

Before Burney, treatises on music had been theoretical, intended for practical use or to elaborate the eternal laws of musical science.

Because it depends on recording, Hollywood has always been in the forefront of musical science, sculpturing and styling performances through microphone placement, overdubbing and editing.

Hence, the supreme authority in matters musical was the musicus as theorist; only he was considered sufficiently conversant with musical science to vouchsafe its continued existence as the sonorous embodiment of universal truths.

Having decided while at school that his aim was to be a conductor, he had enrolled, at the age of 19, at Munich University to study philosophy, which included musical science.

"STARMITES 2001," a musical science-fiction adventure by Barry Keating and Stuart Ross about a shy teenager who is thrust into the world of her favorite comic book.

More subtle is Popov's "Nibiru 20/13," a work of musical science-fiction, in which video elements complement a cunningly crafted hodgepodge of both electronica and string-quartet gestures, making for a vision of Armageddon that's almost whimsical in tone.

Apparently when he was asked to join Mizler's society of Musical Sciences he delayed until 1747 just to ensure that he could be the 14th member to join.

This year's nominees draw on a wide range of sources, including the untold history of NASA, Jacques Demy musicals, science fiction, several lost mothers, and two plays about black life half a century apart.

So immediately after the war all these American movies came to Holland and it was like after all these years of being cut off from the rest of the world, there were all of the sudden all these different realities: westerns, musicals, science fiction.