Sentence examples for setting of text from inspiring English sources

Dowland was a master of musical rhetoric, and it is his setting of text - as much as his melodies - that moves the listener.

The baritone Matthias Goerne, in his final appearances as artist-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic, sings "The Wound-Dresser," John Adams's noble setting of text from Walt Whitman's account of tending to fallen soldiers during the American Civil War.

In this paper, experiments show that the setting of (text {WS} = 1) s and (g = 100) ms works well under HFT workloads.

By the end of his long creative career, which spanned approximately 50 productive years, he had developed a simplified style in which each voice of a polyphonic composition exhibited free and smooth motion, and close attention was paid to clear setting of text as well as clear alignment of text with musical motifs.

The cycle is a setting of texts by the critic and novelist Paul Griffiths.

"Threni," a setting of texts from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, had suffered a disastrous Paris première in 1958.

The work is a 25-minute setting of texts by 12 writers (11 of them women) from 10 cultures spanning 25 centuries, grouped into eight sections.

Mr. Raskatov's own "Nunc Dimittis" (a choral setting of texts by Joseph Brodsky and Starets Siluan), in memory of Schnittke, will also be heard.

The 1966 monodrama Revelation And Fall, a setting of texts by the German poet Georg Trakl, was Davies's breakthrough work of the decade.

The Latin-American element of his heritage came to the fore in the cantata "Oceana," a setting of texts by Pablo Neruda.

Reich puts this percussion material together with the free-flowing vocal writing which is a setting of texts from the Psalms.