The objective was to achieve a sound similar to the human voice, through carefully arranged compositions and by emphasizing a relaxed, melodic approach to the improvisations.

" So What " and " All Blues " had been played by the sextet at performances prior to the recording sessions, but for the other three compositions, Davis and Evans prepared skeletal harmonic frameworks that the other musicians saw for the first time on the day of recording, to allow a fresher approach to their improvisations.

Kandinsky sometimes used musical terms to identify his works ; he called his most spontaneous paintings " improvisations " and described more elaborate works as " compositions.

His music is rhythmically complex ( he was interested in rhythms from ancient Greek and from Hindu sources ); harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations.

His few improvisations that were preserved on early phonograph recordings sound like finished, polished compositions.

A specific sequence of classical Turkish musical forms become a fasıl, a suite an instrumental prelude ( peṣrev ), an instrumental postlude ( saz semaisi ), and in between, the main section of vocal compositions which begins with and is punctuated by instrumental improvisations taksim.

However, many of the performances were brief ( some lasting less than ten seconds ), and many of the original compositions are undeveloped ideas or improvisations that have been described as the audio equivalent of doodling.

Jazz fusion, fusion, or jazz-rock is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R & B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock music, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations, often using wind and brass and displaying a high level of instrumental technique.

Both compositions and improvisations in traditional Arabic music are based on the maqam system.

Musicians, however, imagine these compositions and notations as generic forms which are realized in full in idiosyncratic variations and improvisations in the context of performance.

He received several grants from Canada, Italy and France for his innovative work as composer-performer of period music and as founding-director of the Festivals: Rendez-vous con Hendrik Bouman ( Italy ) 1992, Halifax 1749 Baroque ( Canada ) 1999, Baroque by the Sea ( Maritimes Canada ) 1999 & 2005, the Baroque SaMuse Concert Series ( Montréal, Canada ) 2006-2007, as well as a sponsorship from Berkeley Homes, United Kingdom for his Baroque by the Sea Concert Series ( Sussex, United Kingdom ) 2009 ; concert series predominantly dedicated to the performance of his baroque and classical compositions, period improvisations, as well as historical repertoire and his transcriptions thereof.

Aside from the jazz standard " My One and Only Love " and Thelonious Monk's " Pannonica ", all tracks are original compositions ( with some being non-composed free improvisations, such as " The Law of Falling and Catching Up " or " Fragments ").

The music of Andreas Paolo Perger ranges from solo pieces for classical guitar and electric guitar, concert pieces for guitar and cello or string quartet, compositions for jazz-rock trio and quartet, to room-related interactive group improvisations and room-related compositions for video, electronics and guitar, based on lo-fi electronic sounds and found footage material, reflecting the guitar in a contemporary new media context.

Starting from his work with the concert guitar, he played solo concerts with his improvisations an compositions for the electric guitar.

In this context he played one of his compositions together with the classical " Leipziger Streichquartett " at the Bach Night at Zeche Zollverein in Essen / Germany, where he was invited to perform his solo pieces and improvisations.

Bop pianist Thelonious Monk often interpolated whole-tone scale flourishes into his improvisations and compositions.

A specific sequence of classical Turkish musical forms become a fasıl, a suite an instrumental prelude ( peşrev ), an instrumental postlude ( saz semaisi ), and in between, the main section of vocal compositions which begins with and is punctuated by instrumental improvisations taksim.

Generally, the concerts take place in the afternoons and nights, and consists of all sorts of Carnatic music compositions and improvisations.

Their live shows include compositions by John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Thelonious Monk among others, and include long experimental improvisations that, at times, could be considered atonal.

On letterheads and in hyperbolic, self-published flyers he would proclaim his accomplishments: " Educator, Ex-actor, Amateur All-around Doctor, Mesmerist-Prophet and Mystic, Reader of Hands and Faces, Linguist of 5 languages ", as well as world-class athlete and marksman, " Spirit-Painter Supreme ", and musician whose improvisations rivalled the compositions of Chopin.

Harkleroad then listened to these improvisations, picked out the best parts, and pieced them into compositions.

On all these occasions, the music is arranged from Liebman's own compositions and improvisations.

Brilliant improvisations and a keen understanding of musical forms characterize their jazz compositions.

As is the case with the surface-active agent, the requirements for builders to be used in detergent compositions for washing textiles are also high.

Indigenous drums, flutes, and rattles are commonplace in its musical compositions.

These works are among the most frequently recorded of Salieri's compositions.

The compositions of these early " brass " objects are very variable and most have zinc contents of between 5 % and 15 % wt which is lower than in brass produced by cementation.

The Allmusic review by Marc Gilman awarded the album 4½ stars noting that " While some compositions retain their original structure and sound, some are expanded and probed by Zorn's arrangements, and resemble avant-garde classical music more than jazz.

Most of these early compositions are either scored for piano solo or include a piano.

In more modern compositions, they are occasionally used for their intonation or tone color.

Chemical substances are classified in terms of their structure, phase, as well as their chemical compositions.

The tunes are traditional and more than a century old, or modern compositions which follow the same form as the traditional pieces.

By estimating both the clay and temper compositions, and locating a region where both are known to occur an assignment of the material source can be made.

Chardin frequently painted replicas of his compositions — especially his genre paintings, nearly all of which exist in multiple versions which in many cases are virtually indistinguishable.

The letters are invented compositions to a fictitious correspondent, which are a device for vignettes of agricultural and rural life, set in Attica, though mellifluous Aelian once boasted that he had never been outside Italy, never been aboard a ship ( which is at variance, though, with his own statement, de Natura Animalium XI. 40, that he had seen the bull Serapis with his own eyes ).

Equilibrium stages are ideal steps where compositions achieve vapor-liquid equilibrium, repeating the separation process and allowing better separation given a reflux ratio.

These compositions were considered to be unplayable by many bassists in the early part of the 20th century, but are now frequently performed.

( The date of compositions of Babylonian epics is often hard to determine, as they may survive on manuscripts that are much later than the first composition.

However, this view neglects the fact that i ) both modern cyanobacteria and alpha-proteobacteria are Gram negative bacteria, which are surrounded by double membranes ; ii ) the outer membranes of the endosymbiotic organelles ( chloroplasts and mitochondria ) are very similar to those of these bacteria in their lipid and protein compositions.

Though the estampie is generally monophonic, there are also two-voice compositions in the form of an estampie, such as the three for keyboard in the Robertsbridge Fragment.

Priming compositions are primary explosives mixed with other compositions to control ( lessen ) the sensitivity of the mixture to the desired property.

Some of these compositions are in verse, often a version of Ephrem's heptosyllabic couplets.

Most of these works are considerably later compositions in Greek.

Although Greek compositions are the main source of pseudepigraphal material, there are also works in Latin, Slavonic and Arabic.