Sentence examples for only instrumental from inspiring English sources

Berlioz believed (with the German Romantics) that only instrumental music could express ineffable things like love.

In 2010, Brown choreographed the entire "Pygmalion," and "Les Yeux" was adapted from the opera's dance sections into a fifteen-minute piece, using only instrumental music.

In 1873, while waiting in a Naples hotel for a production of Aida, Verdi wrote a string quartet, the only instrumental composition of his maturity.

The bill's only instrumental will be Berg's 1910 "Piano Sonata," performed by Ieva Jokubaviciute, who described the piece as a testament to the composer's dual affinity for Romanticism and the 12-tone technique of his mentor, Schoenberg.

They can still work as jokes, if well handled - I think the only instrumental work that ever made me burst out laughing in a concert is the finale of Shostakovich's first piano concerto, with its ridiculous pratfalls and deliberately idiotic tunes bursting out into Mrs Mills-type polkas for no good reason.

Do they possess inherent worth or only instrumental value?

Featuring only instrumentals on this track, Exmag exhibits their love of funk and soul as well as their skill in creating it.

Do you hope for that additional b-side, bass-only instrumental track?

In the Platonic view, however, the material and formal causes are only subservient or instrumental causes.

This deliberation might be merely instrumental, concerned only with settling on means to moral ends, or it might be concerned with settling those ends.

Only optimal instrumental parameters, as suggested by the instrumental procedures, were used during analysis by GFAAS.