Sentence examples for sets of pieces from inspiring English sources
His choice of coupling is out of the ordinary, too – two of Prokofiev's early sets of pieces, which may owe more to Mussorgsky's example than first appears.
Much like chess, two competitive sets of pieces move across a board trying to dominate each other, but one group of markers displays images from television while the other uses photographs of actual homes submitted by questionnaire participants.
One of these takes its title, "Lieder Ohne Worte" ("Songs Without Words"; ECM 1618; CD), from two sets of pieces for violin and piano, played by Thomas Zehetmair with ferocious skill and address, to Thomas Larcher's accompaniment.
The core of the demanding program was two sets of pieces by Brahms, the Handel Variations and the Paganini Variations — the first, an epic intellectual adventure akin to Beethoven's Diabelli Variations; the second, two books of virtuoso showpieces descended from the two books of Chopin Etudes.
Mr. Gligoric learned to play chess when he was 11 and made his first set of pieces by carving the caps of wine corks.
An exception is a set of pieces by the Italian avant-garde composer Salvatore Sciarrino, who transcribed works from Gesualdo to Gershwin for saxophone quartet.
But if another set of pieces is to be recorded, Mr. Didkovsky and company will probably have to find another guitar.
Once a student had read the complete set of pieces, she was given a surprise six-question quiz, with questions concerning both recollection and inference.
In 1994 she was approached by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which was commissioning a set of pieces on which composers would work with other artists from other disciplines.
The album is a set of pieces for drum set, gongs, electric guitar and electric bass, violin and viola, and in one case the single note of a piano.
They briefly showed him a diagram of a chess position from an "obscure master game," gave him a set of pieces and asked him to re-create the position on an empty board from memory.
