Sentence examples for setting of a text from inspiring English sources

But it was Hindemith's setting of a text by Oskar Kokoschka, so one speaks instead of the "obscure meaning of the words".

Louis Andriessen's "Flora Tristan" (1990) is a remarkably sharp-edged setting of a text in English and Spanish by Fleur Bourgonje, the grandmother of the painter Paul Gauguin.

Thomson's true declaration of independence from dissonant complexity came just two months after his "Sonata da Chiesa" in 1926 with his first setting of a text by Stein.

To enjoy the piece, you must put out of your mind any expectation that a song is a setting of a text and that words really matter.

On Saturday the work that most exemplified Monteverdi's innovations was "Lamento della Ninfa," a setting of a text adapted by Ottavio Rinuccini.

"Primavera Amarilla," a lively setting of a text by the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez for soprano, piano, cello, clarinet and violin, was brightly sung by Mary Mackenzie.

Ave Verum Corpus, K 618, ( Latin: "Hail, True Body") motet (vocal musical setting of a sacred text) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart based on a Roman Catholic eucharistic text.

After intermission Mr. Levine conducted "The Goddess Athena" (1992), Iannis Xenakis's aggressively raucous setting of a Greek text from "The Eumenides".

Samuel Barber's melancholically beautiful "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," a setting of a James Agee text, here featuring the soprano Dana Beth Miller, follows.

Now they have a new collaborator — Sting, who sings a setting of a Shakespeare text in Silverman's new Trio No. 2, "Reveille," at the 92nd Street Y.

Kihlstedt, also a singer, sang a setting of a translated text from Goethe's "Faust" during the slow movement, while simultaneously playing the violin.