The effect of this experiment, which you might imagine to be chaotic and harsh, was to create deeply spiritual, contemplative compositions that are surprisingly easy on the ear.
It promoted the use of craft and rigorous poetic form over mysticism or spiritual in-roads to composition, favouring the concrete over the ephemeral.
A milestone in the development of Ukrainian spiritual music was the composition of his liturgy, which was first performed in the Mykolaiv Cathedral at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra on May 22 , 1919
She was committed to the idea of composition as a spiritual, but not religious, activity: "The whole process of composition is accomplished in my head and in my soul", she wrote.
Often he would close out a performance by reading patriotic and spiritual poems of his own composition.
Medievalists are the best kind of historian, in my opinion (which is why I majored in medieval history in college): they are always very interested in the body, the bawdy, and the beautiful, by which I mean they have a profound interest in the nitty-gritty of Western culture — in its material composition and the spiritual and intellectual urges that give rise to it.
They are not musical compositions but disarming spiritual experiences, though only for those willing to leave their questioning selves in the lobby.
Plotting in paint, place in poetry, Completes composition, the bedrock of spiritual values.
But Mr. Levine's performance was a reminder that this work is not just a transcendentally spiritual experience but an ingenious musical composition.
But her message was concise and clear: in celebration of Black History Month, the concert would begin with a traditional spiritual and end with an original composition dedicated to Rosa Parks.
