Sentence examples for smaller instrumental from inspiring English sources

Most of Richard Strauss's smaller instrumental work was done at the beginning and end of his creative life.

The smaller instrumental groups often have a sound character of their own, and the composer is challenged to find new and interesting ways to deal with this limitation.

On that theory, apparently, Tenet presented an evening of Purcell, sizable vocal works separated by smaller instrumental numbers, not all of it Cecilia-related.

His independence of traditional models shows both in his adoption of a passacaglia as the opening movement and in the smaller instrumental groups (for instance, piano, timpani and clarinets) that often oppose the orchestral mass.

Musically, Britten matched his dramaturgy by examining old styles through a modern filter -- also harking back with his smaller instrumental forces to the more modest resources of 18th-century opera.

Junior and Senior School students can participate in musical ensembles, both selective and non-selective, including several bands, string orchestras, a full school orchestra, chamber music ensembles, choral groups and several smaller instrumental and vocal groups.

Orr's output remained small – he left just a couple of small-scale instrumental pieces, a few choral works and some 35 songs, 24 of which are to texts by AE Housman.

The Four Nations program, at the end, was the most straightforward, consisting of small-scale instrumental works by François Francoeur and by Georg Philipp Telemann, also in a French vein.

The conductor, Mary Greer, led this small instrumental ensemble and the New York Baroque Soloists, 12 members strong.

Soon original canzonas for organ, modelled on the transcriptions, and for small instrumental ensembles, were composed.

In doing so he seemed to be indicating that this incomparable masterpiece, though played with the smallest instrumental forces of the concert, was by far the major offering.