Among the other solo ballet dancers of the evening, Elisabeth Carroll and Ivan Allen were particularly impressive in their roles in `` The Duel '', a work that depends so much upon the precision and incisiveness of the two principal combatants.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

He performed a " work in progress " version of Under Milk Wood, solo, for the first time at Harvard University on 3 May.

Tin Machine began work on a second album, but Bowie put the venture on hold and made a return to solo work.

Italian composer Sylvano Bussotti, whose composing career spans from the 1930s to the first decade of the 21st century, wrote a solo work for bass in 1983 entitled Naked Angel Face per contrabbasso.

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.

Domenico Scarlatti ( 1685 – 1757 ) began his career in Italy but wrote most of his solo harpsichord works in Spain ; his most famous work is his series of 555 harpsichord sonatas.

Harmonica classes include band for primary and secondary schools, ensemble for secondary school, duet for secondary school, solo ( junior, intermediate, and senior ), and concert work ( open ).

In 1997, after many years of hard work, Berry released a solo album called Second Wave on One Way Records.

Dowland's last, and in the opinion of most scholars, best work, A Pilgrimes Solace, was published in 1612, and seems to have been conceived more as a collection of contrapuntal music than as solo works.

" The New York Times called 1996's Hallelujah Junction " a two-piano work played with appealingly sharp edges ," and 2001's " American Berserk " " a short, volatile solo piano work.

This work began in 1936 as a cantata for alto solo and orchestra, loosely based on a few select poems by Walt Whitman.

On his return to Europe, he stopped in London, where the Hanover Gallery had organized a solo show of his work, and there met Henry Moore.

Alongside his work with the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart has flourished as a solo artist, percussionist, and the author of several books.

In 1987, Thea Musgrave was commissioned by a consortium of four flutists for a solo work.

The word opera means " work " in Italian ( it is the plural of Latin opus meaning " work " or " labour ") suggesting that it combines the arts of solo and choral singing, declamation, acting and dancing in a staged spectacle.

Also nowadays most Professors work solo since the need for a bottler became less important when busking with the show gave way to paid engagements at private parties or public events.

Meanwhile, in 2002 material from the band's original 17-track demo tape was released as an EP, Pixies, on Cooking Vinyl in the U. K. and SpinArt Records in the U. S .; Frank Black has also used these labels to release solo work and albums with The Catholics.

Though Frank Black steadfastly dismissed them, he did begin to incorporate an increasing number of Pixies songs in his sets with The Catholics, and occasionally included Santiago in his solo work and Lovering's magic show as an opening act to concerts.

In addition, classical composers were influenced by the form with, for example, Igor Stravinsky's solo piano work Piano-Rag-Music from 1919, and Claude Debussy's Golliwogg's Cakewalk ( from the 1908 Piano Suite Children's Corner ), and General Lavine ( from his Preludes ).

Second, a part of Duane Allman's solo from Derek and the Dominos's " Layla " is included, to give an impression of highly acclaimed slide work in rock music.

In 1970, in addition to his career as a producer, Cale began to make solo records.

Moving back to London, Cale made a series of solo albums which moved in a new direction.

As he had done with previous solo albums, Eno worked with several guest musicians including Phil Collins, John Cale and Robert Fripp.

He has recorded a series of albums as a solo artist and over the years has worked with Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, John Cale, Elton John, Robert Wyatt, Andy Summers, Mike Oldfield, Nico and Ollie Halsall, among others.

Mike Heron took time out to record a well-received solo album, Smiling Men with Bad Reputations, which, in contrast to the ISB's self-contained productions, featured a host of session guests, among them Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, Keith Moon, John Cale and Richard Thompson.

From the mid-1980s on, however, he occasionally recorded or performed with Reed, Cale, and Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker, who had by then started a solo career of her own.

Poss has concentrated on production and solo work, whilst Stenger played live with The Creatures for a period, and worked with Nick Cave, John Cale and Alan Vega ( Suicide ) among others.

John Cale reportedly wanted to produce the song with a more percussive, synth-based arrangement in keeping with the rest of the material, but Nico insisted it should be kept as a solo harmonium piece.

As a writer, producer and solo artist, Phil Manzanera has worked with many of the luminaries of modern music, such as Steve Winwood, David Gilmour, John Cale, Godley & Creme, Nico and John Wetton.

Gold also includes two Nico solo tracks, co-written and played by The Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison, taken from her 1967 debut album for Polydor, Chelsea Girl.

" Indeed, it has been argued that Richman's " Roadrunner " is, considering its distorted organ solo ( provided by producer John Cale ) and chordal similarities, largely a reworking of " Sister Ray " in musical terms, although Richman's positive and life-affirming lyrics about the joys of driving around suburban Boston are in marked contrast to Reed's detached saga of " debauchery and decay ".

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

A cappella ( Italian for " in the manner of the church " or " in the manner of the chapel ", also see gospel music and choir ) music is specifically solo or group singing without instrumental sound, or a piece intended to be performed in this way.

Mira Sorvino is an alumna of the Veritones of Harvard College where she had the solo on Only You by Yaz.

The “ north-bank ” thesis of F. L. Lucas, based on his 1921 solo field-trip to Thessaly, is now, however, broadly accepted by historians.

An example is his two volumes entitled For Children for solo piano, containing 80 folk tunes to which he wrote accompaniment.

The most common solo instrument is the prima, which is tuned E-E-A ( thus the two lower strings are tuned to the same pitch ).

In particular, Alexey Arkhipovsky is well known for his solo performances.

He is also notable for his musical career, as a solo artist and as half of the duo Barnes & Barnes.

The Ladaínha is a narrative solo sung only at the beginning of a roda, often by a mestre ( master ) or most respected capoeirista present.

The solo is followed by a louvação, a call and response pattern that usually thanks God and one's master, among other things.

It is one of the largest collections of monophonic ( solo ) songs from the Middle Ages and is characterized by the mention of the Virgin Mary in every song, while every tenth song is a hymn.

The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, in a string orchestra, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra.

Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently in disco than in rock.

At the same time it is enjoyed as performance dance, whereby it may well be a solo dance.

For many, the ō-daiko solo is the embodiment of power due to the size of the drum, the volume, and the endurance it takes to perform.

However, there is no hard limit to the upper range a virtuoso solo player can achieve using natural and artificial harmonics.

Other notational traditions do exist ; Italian solo music is typically written at the sounding pitch, and the " old " German method sounded an octave below where notation except in the treble clef, where the music was written at pitch.

In classical solo playing the double bass is usually tuned a whole tone higher ( F-B-E-A ).

This higher tuning is called solo tuning, whereas the regular tuning is known as " orchestral tuning.

" String tension differs so much between solo and orchestral tuning that a different set of strings is often employed that has a lighter gauge.