Sentence examples for substantive music from inspiring English sources

"I was tagged right after 'Piano Man': I was a balladeer, I didn't write substantive music, my records were overproduced, I played too many ballads.

The idea was to present substantive contemporary music with the trappings of a rock band's release party.

But there is no question that the evening diverted resources from the orchestra's core mission, which in the summer should be to present as much substantive, free classical music as possible across all five boroughs.

A second and more substantive variant of country music arose in the 1930s in the Texas-Oklahoma region, where the music of rural whites was exposed to the swing jazz of black orchestras.

Still, the music is substantive and intriguing.

Though performing a substantive program of challenging music is hard work, it should also be fun.

At the New York Philharmonic 14 years ago, members of the orchestra were permitted to share in choosing the successor to Zubin Mehta, their first substantive participation in a music director search in 80 years.

In apparent reinforcement of the latter claim, some Europeans lauded Tchaikovsky for offering music more substantive than base exoticism, and thus transcending stereotypes of Russian classical music.

Recollections from Nas' brother Jabari (a.k.a. Jungle) and producers D.J. Premier, Large Professor, L.E.S., Pete Rock and Q-Tip truly enlighten, as they offer substantive perspective on lyrics and music samples.

The irony here is that, at the moment, pop music is far more substantive than mainstream country.

Moreover, Ridley does not set out the supposedly obvious ontology of music, but rather makes substantive and contentious ontological assumptions throughout his argument.