Sentence examples for settings of texts from inspiring English sources

Of the 12 songs in this work, 11 are settings of texts by Bertolt Brecht.

Citkowitz's Five Songs From "Chamber Music" (1930), settings of texts by James Joyce, are a revelation.

In a special show, the tenor Marcello Giordani sings settings of texts by such poets as D'Annunzio and Boito.

John Harbison's "Mirabai Songs" are settings of texts by a 16th-century Indian mystical poet about her erotic passion for Krishna.

The second part is devoted to Seven Last Words, austere settings of texts compiled from the four gospels by James MacMillan.

The program ended with the New York premiere of Ronald Perera's "earthsongs," melodic, lighthearted settings of texts by E. E. Cummings.

Another of the ensemble's composer-performers, Kate Soper, sang her own "cipher," an exotic score in which her vocal settings of text fragments from Wittgenstein, Freud, Jenny Holzer, Michael Drayton and Sara Teasdale closely matched, in timbre and gesture, a brash violin line played energetically by Joshua Modney.

Walt Whitman's poems inspired him to write the symphony, and Whitman's use of free verse became appreciated at a time where fluidity of structure was becoming more attractive than traditional, metrical settings of text.

Her whole bearing changed when, after the first set (four Schubert settings of Scottish texts), she returned to the stage and suddenly became Goethe's Mignon (the character who sings "Heiss mich nicht reden").

Composers such as Josquin increasingly appreciated the expressive possibilities inherent in setting motet texts, and consequently the number and variety of motets (in this era, settings of religious texts) expanded dramatically.

There were some unusual turns, including Ives, Griffes and MacDowell settings of German texts.