The music for Big Apple Circus is always a blend of original composition and recognizable songs and melodies.
Listen to the pliant bass work of Gress on the opening of "Mystery Song," a Duke Ellington composition hardly recognizable under Copland's modern arrangement, specifically tailored to be a true collaborative effort for these particular musicians.
But the elements and how they are juxtaposed within her hard-edge compositions seem almost recognizable as they teeter between object and nonobject.
Josquin made extensive use of "motivic cells" in his compositions, short, easily recognizable melodic fragments which passed from voice to voice in a contrapuntal texture, giving it an inner unity.
With its vibrating strings, pastel-soft keyboards, bits of electronic feedback and keening, slowly shifting vocals, a Mazzoli composition is swiftly recognizable.
Oswald says he appreciated the fact that Schafer and his team wouldn't disguise their source material, and that the point of using found sounds in their compositions was that they would be recognizable to the listener.
But in fact, Anatsui is a fellow Ghanaian, and the intricate, narrow-banded compositions of Anatsui's first cloths were recognizable variations of kente cloth, the emblematic fabric of Ghana.
(79) Subsequent studies have shown that more subtle differences in composition stemming from differences in feed provide recognizable differences in sensory properties.
When the music is recognizable, it is often a veiled version of an iconic composition, which may or may not be legal.
While Mr. Alexander obscured individual identities in "Lost Souls," its composition is based in part on the very recognizable 19th-century history painting "Washington Crossing the Delaware," by Emanuel Leutze.
