Sentence examples for typical composer from inspiring English sources

The era of the white European male as the only model for a typical composer has long been history.

Nor is he your typical Broadway composer, although he has joined those ranks with "Hands on a Hardbody," which opens on March 21 at the Brooks Atkinson Theater.

The 43-year-old Ms. White, who lives in Princeton, said it would be hard to identify a New Jersey sound or even a "typical" New Jersey composer.

Ernest Newman, the respected biographer of Wagner, wrote in 1926 in The Sunday Times of London (and republished in The New York Times) that the typical jazz composer was a "musical illiterate".

K27 is far more typical of the composer's approach to the sonata as a baroque dance of distinctly Iberian character in two repeated halves.

As on the rest of the album, melodies are staggered to ominous effect, and tempos are doubled or halved in a manner more typical of the composer and modal theorist George Russell than of Ellington.

The first notes — an oscillating pattern of whole-tone intervals in the cellos, basses, and bassoons, starting loud and precipitately fading toward silence — are typical of the composer's language: the harmony is ambiguous but not dissonant, and before long the solo cello is tracing a melody around a familiar chord known the world over as "Tristan".

Writing of the First String Quintet, Porte calls it a sonorous and warm-hearted sort of work, constructed on fairly classical lines, and notes that the character and construction are typical of the composer.

But there, tonight and tomorrow night, a typical gathering of composers, choreographers and musicians will perform new and old pieces together in a setting that has all the intimacy of an old-time salon.

To a degree, Gesualdo the composer was typical of his time and place.

It took several minutes for me to notice the mistake because such aural experiments are typical of "Meet the Composer".