Sentence examples for setting of verses from inspiring English sources

In "Tehillim," a setting of verses from four Psalms sung in Hebrew, that pulse is provided by clapping, rattles and other percussion.

It also erupts into a monumental, timpani-driven setting of verses from the Bhagavad Gita, a hymn of praise to Vishnu: "At the sight of this, your Shape stupendous, / Full of mouths and eyes, feet, thighs and bellies, / Terrible with fangs, O mighty master, / All the words are fear-struck, even just as I am".

The three works on the first half of the program were played without pause (or applause), and the Ives proved an ideal prelude to "The Wound-Dresser," John Adams's 1989 setting of verses from a Civil War poem by Walt Whitman.

Havergal Brian allowed the form of his Fourth Symphony, subtitled "Das Siegeslied" (Psalm of Victory), to be dictated by the three-part structure of his text, Psalm 68; the setting of Verses 13 18 for soprano solo and orchestra forms a quiet interlude between two wilder, highly chromatic martial ones set for massive choral and orchestral forces.

George Crumb's Apparitions, Elegiac Songs, and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano (1979), a setting of verse by Walt Whitman, is filled with clusters, including an enormous one that introduces three of its sections.

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The mihrab had two sets of verses from the Quran inscribed in the conch, which is still intact.

How can any set of verses conclude a litany about holiness, which the Hebrew Bible claims is the essence of the meaning of life?

Bach composed the aria, a setting of 12 verses by Johann Anton Mylius, in October 1713 on the occasion of the 52nd birthday of Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxony-Weimar.

Threni: id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae, usually referred to simply as Threni, is a musical setting by Igor Stravinsky of verses from the Book of Lamentations in the Latin of the Vulgate, for solo singers, chorus and orchestra.

So as not to distract from the music, Prokofiev jettisoned the original set of rhyming verses and wrote a simple prose narrative for the story.