Mr. Reich, calling himself a slow composer, replied that only at the later stages of composition does a piece start to take him over.
Aside from its antiquarian or associative value, an autograph may be an early or corrected draft of a manuscript and provide valuable evidence of the stages of composition or of the "correct" final version of a work.
The two differ substantially and must indeed represent different stages of composition and of staging, so that both are germane to an understanding of the play's textual and theatrical history.
This change of plan is particularly important in that it helps to identify different stages of composition of the text.
This shift was the culmination of a long struggle, present through all the early stages of composition.
They underwent a continual process of creative experimentation that included many stages of composition, rehearsal and revision to reach a balance of musical form.
After many such stages of composition, rehearsal and revision, Liszt might reach a version where the musical form seemed balanced and he was satisfied.
In the complete edition of Dostoyevsky's writings published in the Soviet Union, the editors reassembled and printed the notebooks that the writer kept while working on Crime and Punishment, in a sequence roughly corresponding to the various stages of composition.
During the formative stages of compositions, Buckingham and Christine McVie played guitar and piano together to create the album's basic structures.
Mahler may or may not have subtitled it "Tragic" at some stage of its composition, and it could, possibly, contain music that consecrates and depicts his wife Alma.
