How To Use Symphonic In A Sentence

If the instrumentation is more sparse, the music is no less symphonic in its scale and approach than we would hope.
There was, of course, a vast amount of music in the U.S. in this period besides symphonic music, Lutheran hymnody, and Wagnerian opera.
The first movement is a conventional symphonic Allegro.
Its symphonic narrative revolves six characters through six ages of man - from the 19th century to distant millennia - then brings them full circle as each one completes their interrupted history.
In the Finale - to my mind, the most miraculous symphonic movement ever written - Jochum and his Bavarians are supremely moving.

Where once every conductor with a record contract had to have a Beethoven and Brahms symphonic cycle, today it seems you're nothing without your complete Bruckner and Mahler.
His new release, "No Beginning, No End," is a remembrance of his late daughter, rendered in symphonic proportions but still uniquely personal. Swinging Into November
He liked a lot of new music but as soon as he heard a piece of old-fashioned opera or symphonic music he would switch off. Times, Sunday Times
His own composition classes were solidly based on a historical foundation of Gregorian chant, Palestrinian and Bachian polyphony, Beethoven's symphonic language, and Franck's technique of cyclic themes.
The fruit of the winter of 1883 and 1884, included also the too-popular "Nathalie" dances, (where, for once, Ivan over-melodized); the "Cinderella" ballet; and his symphonic poem "Dream of Italy. The Genius
We scurried along walls and zig-zagged from floor to floor effortlessly, battering demonic beetles with nunchakus, all to the accompaniment of a sweeping symphonic score.
His symphonic scores revisited the motivic and symphonic aesthetic of the 19th century, a move regarded as retrogressive by modernist critics.
The Finale is almost symphonic in breadth and nature and the whole quartet is one of the overlooked masterpieces of the genre.
The work artfully juxtaposes two complex, quasi-symphonic percussion instruments piano and gamelan ensemble, East and West each making fluent-sounding attempts at adopting the accent of the other, with the piano's unusual tuning giving a quirky tinge to its tones, a slight acridity to would-be octaves. Music review: Post-Classical Ensemble recognizes the work of Lou Harrison
It's symphonic pop style would normally make me change the channel if I were listening to the radio, but the Pink Floydesqe sound makes it listenable.
The sense of forward momentum doesn't quite get as far as it needs to, and an overenthusiastic attack of subsidiary climaxes weaken the major symphonic climax Simpson has written in.
After a day of silence, the sounds outside descend upon the ears in a symphonic scale.
At times, the music is practically symphonic and then it just as easily turns harsh and destructive.
After a historical introduction to the orchestral instruments, Plotkin explores the literature for the symphonic form, piano, orchestral instruments, lieder and vocal music, and choral music.
They have that symphonic sound with thundering, marching percussion perfect for the war scenes.
Brahms's chamber and symphonic music has long since triumphed in the concert hall.
Apart from the Faust music, his most remarkable work is the programmatic symphonic poem Macbeth.
It can't modulate, and thus, in the context of symphonic music, cannot give you the sense of transformation.
Your dear letter has brought me still nearer to you in the crisis of the estro poetico, which the "Hungaria" [One of Liszt's symphonic poems.] brought forth in me; and, thanks to this good influence, I hope you will not be dissatisfied with the composition. Letters
In both cases, the musical ideas themselves remain essentially unvaried; they are never ‘developed’ in a traditional, symphonic sense.
Yoga resembles music. Body's rhythm , the thought pace , intelligent harmony , symphonic music composing life's.
Symphonic music tended to be retrospective, with Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven forming the staple fare and accounting for the conservative forms of Schumann's and Mendelssohn's orchestral compositions.
His is the only post-war body of symphonic and chamber music to achieve genuine popularity.
The Seventh seems, in many ways, a summation of what has preceded it in the composer's symphonic oeuvre.
Of his symphonic poems those most often played are: "In Wallenstein's Camp," "Moldau, A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
The performance itself was spectacular -- scenes from all six movies on a humungous LED screen while a tremendous live orchestra played a series of symphonic suites from the films, all held together by Anthony Daniels telling the story. Heading for Albuquerque
He is the pianist for the choral department at Bozeman High School and the Bozeman Symphonic Choir.
So while he was credited with the intention of bringing out Stabat Mater waltzes -- by no means a difficult feat with Rossini's work -- and a Dead March gallopade, we must never forget that he was the first conductor to introduce symphonic music to the masses and the authentic pioneer of the movement which Sir Henry Wood has carried on at the Queen's Hall for the last twenty years and more. Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
He couldn't write a symphonic allegro to save his life.
Symphonies 103 and 104 stand as perfect examples of early symphonic construction.
This is a characteristic of much of Elgar's symphonic writing, though without the terse compactness of the Brahms model.
It's more allegretto than andante, like a Brahms symphonic intermezzo.
This became especially noticeable during the brief orchestral introduction and the few symphonic transitions provided for set changes.
The rhythms, sequences, waves and patterns with respect to the retrogression and direct motion of the planets is symphonic in its holistic entirety.
From quietly beautiful chamber pieces, to daring set ups of symphonic proportions, there have, indeed, been many offerings to relish from across the globe.
The singer described the album as "symphonic" - and said it included "a full on collaboration with an orchestra". Music News - GIGWISE.com
Every morning and evening songbirds gave us a glorious symphonic performance rich in harmony, melody and a few jazzy solos.
The piece slows symphonic time so that movement is barely perceptible.
Tristania combines rock, Goth, death metal, black metal, classical music and symphonic rock on February 18 at Manchester Academy.
Reilly Lewis leads the Cathedral Choral Society, the Maret School Concert Choir, organist Todd Fickley, carillonist Edward Nassor and the Washington Symphonic Brass in a program of holiday music, 4-6 p.m. D.C community calendar, Dec. 9 to 16, 2010
Matthews has defined symphonic music as being one which ‘contrasts dynamic energy with passivity’.
Allusion to the trio, as in some of Beethoven's symphonic scherzos, briefly turns up in the coda.
Already in 1943, Bohuslav Martinu, in exile in America, had composed his brooding symphonic meditation Memorial to Lidice.
Symphonies 103 and 104 stand as perfect examples of early symphonic construction.
He has composed chamber music, symphonic works and opera, and conducted his music around the globe.
Further, when the design is one of unusual breadth, as in some symphonic movements, or in elaborate chamber music, the number of fundamental thematic members may be so multiplied that it is necessary to assume the presence of _two successive Subordinate themes_, of equal independent significance, -- such significance that neither of them could be confounded with a mere codetta, or any other inferior thematic member. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
I don't know why it doesnt just go through as koji kondo. i wish it would. i downloaded a live symphonic performance of the ocarina of time soundtrack. it's pretty rad. Drowned In Sound // Feed
Musical rhythms from symphonic masterpieces are translated into sequences of stripes and colours, livening up an inspired line of clothing that comes with a CD as a free gift.
And if hed gone on, you know, just imagine what kind of symphonic poems and symphonies - I mean in my opinion - he would have written. Marin Alsop's Shared Musical Roots
Allusion to the trio, as in some of Beethoven's symphonic scherzos, briefly turns up in the coda.
Perfectly balanced with the unique voice are lovely, rising, symphonic chord sequences played on synthesisers and piano, as well as delicate samplings of dulcimer, bodhran, harmonium and cello.
Somewhere in the middle of this sequence I realised that this may be the only American movie since 2001 brave or foolhardy enough to take on – to conflate, even – the infinite and the intimate, the cosmic and the cellular, the extraordinary and the infra-ordinary, all in Malick's habitual spirit of big-hearted, symphonic grandeur, steeped in Whitman, Emerson and Yeats. Is Terrence Malick assuming Stanley Kubrick's mantle?
Instead of allowing you to enjoy the natural symphonic presentation of his music, you get some awful '80s-synth revamp.
Strings, guitar, organ, beats and voice come together in one singular, kaleidoscopic and symphonic adventure.
It's not a bad way to spend a Tuesday lunchtime, in a rehearsal room in Clapham High Street, south London, listening to Simon Russell Beale expound on centaurs, Little Nell and the idealisation of childhood, modern Pimlico, 19th-century German symphonic music, his benign attitude to errant theatregoers with mobiles ( "Their own mortification is their punishment") and murder. Simon Russell Beale: 'I believe passionately in live theatre'
the symphonic hum of a million insects
Cristina Braga, the first harpist of the Symphonic Orchestra of Rio's Municipal Theater, created the event nine years ago, and recruited the renowned classical guitarist Turíbio Santos to serve as its artistic director. Chris McGowan: Brazil's Coffee Valley Music Festival Draws Crowds to Historic Region
The sinewy first movement, which is the most concise in the whole of Bax's symphonic cycle, packs a powerful punch.
There are three halls of different sizes with seating capacity from almost 3000 in the big symphonic hall, to the more intimate chamber space with 750 seats.
Most effective is the contrast created when Slean's piano-tinkling waltz-time verses bloom into symphonic swells of strings and timpani on the pop-smart choruses.
As historians are apt to do, symphonic classical music is chronologically subdivided in an effort to differentiate the dominant style utilized at that time.
Something of the rhapsodic style of the first set of these Strauss songs, not to mention their symphonic piano accompaniments, released a superabundance of energy within Kaufmann, and we discovered new dimensions in his artistry: a long-winded breath control, his openhearted romantic fervor, a darkish head tone, and a kind of pure ecstasy in his delivery. Rodney Punt: Jonas Kaufmann Triumphs in Lieder Recital for LA Opera
Try to Explain was a quivering, ambient electronica piece that turned into an immense symphonic structure. Times, Sunday Times
At this price, this set is definitely worth a listen and should also be the standard recommendation for Alfvén's symphonic music for many years to come.
His is the only post-war body of symphonic and chamber music to achieve genuine popularity.
Entering the 1990 s, Chinese symphonic creation found itself in the doldrums.
It is a great pity that Maag did not find time to explore the wide oeuvre of Liszt's symphonic poems as on these two accounts, he was a born interpreter in this field.
Furthermore, unlike many film composers, he thought of at least some of his movie music as symphonic and arranged his cues into symphonic suites.
The light tunes of the rough Russian interpreted jazz sung up and down to the beats of a symphonic, unpracticed melody.
I am a sucker for film scores - the entire genre is like a lush island where the late German Romantic symphonic tradition retreated to thrive, away from the coruscating glare of modernism.
Morton Gould is not generally known primarily as a composer of symphonic music.
Our last concert was a programme bursting with superb concert band, symphonic, jazz and choral sounds.
For these reasons, folk song finds its way into symphonic poems, and sacred songs become national anthems.
It plays almost no part in classical music's biggest challenge: enticing youngsters with no exposure to symphonic or operatic music. Times, Sunday Times
The first movement is a conventional symphonic Allegro.
It's a symphonic dance, like Ravel's La Valse, a study in the erasure of the bar line while keeping a steady pulse.
Symphonic Phantastique," including the second part thereof, which he calls a monodrame lyrique. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2
It's been half a decade, if not longer, since the term ceased to refer to a widespread conception of music-making and became anchored to the post-Godspeed strain of increasingly dilute faux-symphonic indie. The Line Of Best Fit
He builds substantial symphonic movements - often combining two different spirituals of similar lyric content and playing one off against the other.
The first two are choral works with orchestra, the last a symphonic fanfare, and together they take listeners on a difficult but satisfying journey of faith and wonder, from the annunciation to the promise of Man's salvation.
It is one of symphonic music 's most striking endings (a slow movement? Times, Sunday Times
Berlioz has been here since Sunday, and is busily engaged conducting rehearsals for the performance of his "Trilogie Sacree" ( "L'Enfance du Christ") and his "Symphonic Phantastique," including the second part thereof, which he calls a monodrame lyrique. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
Our last concert was a programme bursting with superb concert band, symphonic, jazz and choral sounds.
He wrote symphonic movements and shoved them in a drawer.
By the time he left he had written two symphonic preludes, a number of liturgical settings, and a Capriccio sinfonico, his passing-out piece, which won high critical acclaim.
Close-coupled double-symphonic suites are quieter still in operation and a change over to a modern suite may be well worth considering.
Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. Three Junes: Summary and book reviews of Three Junes by Julia Glass.
In opera music, depict characters express the drama of conflict has a strong artistic appeal. The drama shows the theme of motivation and symphonic music idea, reflects the music of Tchaikovsky charm.
Gustav Mahler wrote Symphony No.1 at age 24, much younger than Beethoven in starting symphonic composition.
During the first months of the war Serge Prokofiev wrote his symphonic suite ‘The year 1941 ’, and later his Fifth Symphony, as did Aram Khatchaturian his Second.
III symphony and symphonic poem of the two genres were introduced and compared for further information after the symphonic poem laid the foundation of this genre.
“We were simply bowled over by Madame, who was way ahead of her press agentry,” said David O. Selznick, adding that he was disappointed that people did not seem to have paid enough attention to the “symphonic narrative” and “march” created for the occasion—compositions he called “the first important serious music to come out of the war.” The Last Empress
On the new release, Fitton emphasizes his music's symphonic dimension.
Although Lees hints at the programmatic, his usual care and thought have gone into symphonic construction and the music can be enjoyed without reference to external events.
Edmund Rubbra's symphonic cycle has long been admired as one of the finest of the century.
Argentine by birth, he became famous in his native country for a series of songs in the 1940s, but he also composed symphonic works and pieces for other solo instruments.
In the second half of the concert, the symphonic suite Carelia by Jean Sibelius and Symphony No.4 in d-moll by Robert Schumann were performed.
The concept of a dialogue was enhanced in the Classical period by a growing distinction in ‘public’ concertos between the grand symphonic manner of orchestral tuttis and the more intimate sonata style of solo passages.
None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs.
It's more allegretto than andante, like a Brahms symphonic intermezzo.
All his life he has remained faithful to his admiration of Liszt -- since 1858, when he dedicated a _Veni Creator_ to "the Abbé Liszt," until 1886, when, a few months after Liszt's death, he dedicated his masterpiece, the _Symphonic avec orgue_, "To the memory of Franz Liszt." [ Musicians of To-Day
The centerpiece is really the title suite, a 37 minute 11 part collection with interconnected and repeating themes depicted on symphonic progressive, classical, and medieval instrumentation. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
But a little less symphonic sheen and a little more jazz wouldn't have come amiss. Times, Sunday Times
A major pleasure of symphonic music lies in a feeling of inexorable transformation - following a close argument or listening to a tale well-told.
If Meyer decided to work in longer forms, he might yet give us the folk analogue to Gershwin's symphonic jazz pieces.
They explore the web hypertext as an esthetic format in order to express identity crises that take the form of symphonic/disharmonic voices and fragmented, broken sequences of life stories that, eventually, form patterns of connections, reflecting, mirroring each other and linking as pages from the net. Theatricality of Sound in Hypertext Writing in Romanian Literature
Certainly, the Empire was barely big enough to contain either their army of mostly male fans or their symphonic rock sound. Times, Sunday Times
The last two works were part of the new genre of symphonic ballets; the idea of setting dance to symphonic music was a cause of great controversy at the time.
Mozart Festival 2008" presents all of Mozart's stage works, including "The Magic Flute" and "Don Giovanni," as well as a choice of songs and selected chamber, symphonic and oratorial works, organised by the Warsaw Chamber Opera. Time Off Europe Calendar
His concert career also included engagements as a conductor, particularly of Brahms's symphonic music.
Specifically, the Pan-Asian theme is both meditative and powerful, a mixture of gongs, shakuhachi, koto and taiko drums with the traditional symphonic score.
The finale follows immediately - a big symphonic waltz à la Dvorák or Nielsen.
It's uplifting symphonic praise, enticing us musically back into the Age of Aquarius.
He has composed chamber music, symphonic works and opera, and conducted his music around the globe.
Rather than his usual saxophones and brass, Mr. Morris's current ensemble consists mainly of symphonic strings even the double basses are bowed arco, woodwinds, and world-music instruments. Passing Down the Piano Torch Song
With chamber and symphonic music it's only me and my music. Times, Sunday Times
None of the symphonic music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Delius, Richard Strauss or Skryabin is without longueurs.
It falls somewhere between a large symphonic movement and a fantasia.
The symphonic character of Gustav Mahler's music gave me the freedom to create a drama out of the music rather than retell a pre-written story.
Argentine by birth, he became famous in his native country for a series of songs in the 1940s, but he also composed symphonic works and pieces for other solo instruments.
The brass quintet is a fun and whacky group made up of members of the Bournemouth Symphonic Orchestra brass section.
And at no point have I heard that the symphonic tunes of a mellow saxophone are particularly associated with the Mormon kingdom.
Symphonic music was, and still is, bounded only by the limits of the imagination.
No conductor did more to bring Mahler into the symphonic mainstream, and none did more to consolidate this orchestra's special relationship to Mahler's music.
The symphonic repertoire calls for the basic 2 oboes and cor anglais, just as it does two flutes and piccolo, two clarinets and bass clarinet, two bassoons and contrabassoon.
In symphonic writing he is the master craftsman.
The Westminster Symphonic Choir and the American Boychoir will be performing St. John Passion.
Stripped of the atmospheric fuzz, his music is so expansive and complex that it borders on symphonic.
A concert of American symphonic jazz will be staged in Shanghai this Saturday.
Turning his back on the empty symphonic effects that have become clichés, he is breaking new musical ground, using a big steel band as an expansion of his jazz combos.
There are two symphonies, ten suites, and concert overture, three symphonic poems, an oratorio, "The Captivity," six string quartettes, and a mass of psalmodic and other vocal writing. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
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Both are narrative symphonic poems, but both are also consistent musical arguments.
Battle lines are being drawn over this new symphonic prog rock as we speak.
They sound symphonic too, deftly worked, complex in structure and emotion. Times, Sunday Times
He is at home playing anything from symphonic masterworks to swing.
It's a symphonic dance, like Ravel's La Valse, a study in the erasure of the bar line while keeping a steady pulse.
My father prefers everything else, especially symphonic music, but on occasion he'll play traditional Asian music.
To a great extent, he hides the ‘academic’ use of counterpoint in his chamber and symphonic music, although he trots it out for special occasions in places like the passacaglia peroration of the Haydn Variations.
It is constructed on a conventional model, and its thematic material is drawn from the music of the opera; but, like the prelude to Wagner's lyric comedy, "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," it presents the contents of the play in the form of what many years after its composition came to be called a symphonic poem, and illustrates the ideal which was in Gluck's mind when, in the preface to "Alceste," he said, "I imagined that the overture ought to prepare the audience for the action of the piece, and serve as a kind of argument to it. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
Perhaps, if he hadn't felt such a strong need to establish his credentials as a symphonic composer, we might have had more fabulous American musicals from his pen.
Though a rock star, he found most rock music contemptible and really wanted to be a jazz and symphonic composer.
But its extravagant sorrows and symphonic self-seriousness soon palled.
That said, when driven properly, this Lambo rewards the driver with exceptional handling and formidable G-force delight, accompanied by a symphonic exhaust note. The Need for Speed
The band is frequently described as symphonic metal or operatic metal. Epinions Recent Content for Home
Here the musical, immaterial harmony, resulting from a composition which might be called symphonic, was enhanced by a new harmony, which was the feeling of the circulation of the same blood in all the assembled persons. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Excitement, splendid orchestral playing and rousing fortissimo sections are three hallmarks of Gustavo Dudamel's performances of the three Tchaikovsky symphonic overtures based on Shakespeare. CD review: Gustavo Dudamel conducts Tchaikovsky's Shakespeare overtures
By 1800 Beethoven was writing more orchestral music, and the sonatas began to break away from the symphonic mould.
Russian composer whose works include ballets , operas, and the symphonic fairy tale Peter and the Wolf ( 1936 ).
No: he never did manage to write the symphonic or operatic masterpieces that he constantly wanted to be remembered by.
The wild romanticist, the lover of the strange and the lurid and the grotesque who created the "Symphonic Fantastique," never, perhaps, became entirely abeyant. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
The light tunes of the rough Russian interpreted jazz sung up and down to the beats of a symphonic, unpracticed melody.
Jorma Silvasti, the tenor, has a bright, slightly reedy tone, rather than the big heroic voice required for the fanfare opening of the symphonic version.
Expect to see 11 players working with a single-consciousness in what can only be described as symphonic motion. The Walton Tribune: News
The piece is "a hybrid of traditional British collier band and a symphonic brass section. A Filmmaker Mines History for Meaning

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