Although improvisation plays a major role in Karnatak music, the repertory also consists of a vast number of composed pieces, particularly the kriti or kirtana, complex devotional songs by composers from the 16th through the 20th centuries, particularly the so-called "trinity" of great composers of the early 19th century: Tyagaraja, Muthuswami Dikshitar, and Syama Sastri.
The free-jazz idiom proved to be a stimulus to composers for large and small ensembles, resulting in a remarkable variety of composed music by Coleman, Barry Guy, Leo Smith, Henry Threadgill, Alex Schlippenbach, David Murray, Pierre Dørge, John Zorn, and Roscoe Mitchell, among others.
Each event juxtaposes traditional music with examples of composed works influenced by it, performed by the Perspectives Ensemble.
In a series, "It's About Time," it offers three programs of composed music -- by Richard Einhorn, Phil Kline and others -- and improvisations.
Most bands don't play regularly enough to find that magic, cohesive, intuitive ideal in which the significance of composed material just melts away.
70 min: Carrick has made a difference to United since coming on, giving them a degree of composed steadiness in midfield.
California is closing in on us & sooner or later is bound to sweep by, leaving us choking in a cloud of composed equally of redwood sawdust and smog.
His band members can seem as if they are just following their instincts, but at a subtle cue they snap into a piece of composed material.
His band members can seem as if they're just following their own instincts, but at a subtle cue they snap into a piece of composed material.
We couldn't jam, so when we sort of composed, if you can call it that, we'd honestly think: 'Does this next note go with the note before?
They look like advertisement shots, stock photos, rootless images that Pryde sees as the beginning of a rudimentary lexicon of composed gestures.
