Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Oboe Concerto was commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra to honor his 25th anniversary with the orchestra and he performed the world premiere.

In April 1991, with the CSO under Daniel Barenboim, he gave the world premiere of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto for Bass Trombone, which was commissioned by the CSO for its centennial.

Britten's Cello Symphony and Zwilich's Symphony No. 4 also showcase a solo cello within the context of a full-scale symphony.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

His unique compositional style is strongly related to that of the early Classical period.

However, the compositional style employed in the opera, with few stand-alone arias, was criticized at the time and remains a barrier to the opera's complete acceptance into the standard repertoire.

Palestrina's masses show how his compositional style developed over time.

Hildegard's compositional style is characterized by soaring melodies, often well outside of the normal range of chant at the time.

His compositional style derives from Johann Joseph Fux's counterpoint, who was Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral 1713-1741, a position that Albrechtsberger would hold 52 years later.

In modern times, scholars have attempted to ascertain the basic details of his biography, and have tried to define the key characteristics of his style to correct misattributions, a task that has proved difficult, as Josquin liked to solve compositional problems in different ways in successive compositions — sometimes he wrote in an austere style devoid of ornamentation, and at other times he wrote music requiring considerable virtuosity.

Musically, Van Vliet's primitive style contrasted sharply with Zappa's compositional discipline and abundant technique.

This album features Dolphy's fully developed avant-garde yet highly structured compositional style rooted in tradition.

His delivery, and Britten's compositional style, were mercilessly ( and accurately ) satirised by Dudley Moore in Beyond the Fringe ( Little Miss Muffet ).

His early style has many of the qualities associated with his mature work, including a freshness of light, colour and touch, and reveals the compositional influence of the Old Masters he had studied, notably of Claude Lorrain.

He was aware that younger composers now considered his compositional style old-fashioned.

While he learned from Glinka certain methods of treating Russian folk song instrumentally, a bright, transparent orchestral technique ( something he also learned from the works of Hector Berlioz ) and many elements of his basic style, he developed and expanded upon what he had learned, fusing it satisfactorily with then-advanced Romantic compositional techniques.

Shortly thereafter, he completed the terse, witty one-movement Italian Serenade for string quartet which is regarded as one of the finest examples of his mature instrumental compositional style.

His compositional style represents a distinctively spare form of tonal neo-Romanticism.

He died in 1979, after which point Taaffe Zwilich refocused her compositional efforts on " communicating more directly with performers and listeners ," softening her somewhat harsh, jagged style.

Diaghilev's intention, however, was to produce new works in a distinctively 20th century style, and he was looking for fresh compositional talent.

Dark subjects dramatically lit by a shaft of light from a single constricted and often unseen source was a compositional device developed by Ugo da Carpi ( c. 1455-c. 1523 ), Giovanni Baglione ( 1566 – 1643 ) and Caravaggio ( 1573 – 1610 ), the last of whom was crucial in developing the style of tenebrism, where dramatic chiaroscuro becomes a dominant stylistic device.

Ornstein's primary compositional style was changing as well.

Architectural historians have attributed most of their projects to one partner or the other, based on the visual and compositional style, and the location.

The earliest compositional use of the technique was in the first version of Engelbert Humperdinck's 1897 melodrama Königskinder ( in the 1910 version it was replaced by conventional singing ), where it may have been intended to imitate a style already in use by singers of lieder and popular song, but it is more closely associated with the composers of the Second Viennese School.

Ruffo ’ s compositional style which favored the text was well in line with the Council ’ s perceived concern with intelligibility.

* Shulamit Ran biography, analysis of compositional style and photograph on the site of Presser music publisher and distributor

Orchestration differs in that it is only adapting music for an orchestra or musical ensemble while arranging " involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings ... Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety " ( ibid ).

In music, a concept album is an album that is " unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical.

In music, a fugue ( ) is a compositional technique ( in classical music ) in two or more voices, built on a subject ( theme ) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation ( repetition at different pitches ) and recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

For contraint frameworks which are strictly compositional, graph unification is the sufficient satisfiability and combination function.

His insight into orchestral resources is generally ascribed not to the strict compositional rules that he learned from Mattei, but to knowledge gained independently while scoring the quartets and symphonies of Haydn and Mozart.

His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Baroque and Classical masters.

He was a master of counterpoint, the complex and highly disciplined art for which Johann Sebastian Bach is famous, and of development, a compositional ethos pioneered by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

* Event semantics The idea that each productive morpheme must have a compositional semantic meaning ( a denotation ), and if the meaning is there, there must be a morpheme ( null or overt ).

Mereological nihilism ( also called compositional nihilism ) is the position that objects with proper parts do not exist ( not only objects in space, but also objects existing in time do not have any temporal parts ), and only basic building blocks without parts exist, and thus the world we see and experience full of objects with parts is a product of human misperception ( i. e., if we could see clearly, we would not perceive compositive objects ).

Kramer enumerates 16 ( arguably subjective ) " characteristics of postmodern music, by which I mean music that is understood in a postmodern manner, or that calls forth postmodern listening strategies, or that provides postmodern listening experiences, or that exhibits postmodern compositional practices.

The original use of an adjective to describe a particular variant of an object is typically purely compositional, as in " acoustic guitar ", but gradually over time it becomes a collocation, a name or technical term in its own right with additional nuances, greater specificity and general but implicit agreement on it as the appropriate term versus alternative descriptions of the original type.

Moreover, there is no compositional change so the atoms generally retain their same neighbors.

To take an example of one word, red, its meaning in a phrase such as red book is similar to many other usages, and can be viewed as compositional.

Semi-quantitative compositional and element analysis of a sample using AES is dependent on measuring the yield of Auger electrons during a probing event.

As a result, the compositional AES data is considered suspect.

The unique floral and faunal wealth of the Himalayas is undergoing structural and compositional changes due to climate change.

If these quantities do not appear, it is impossible to describe compositional changes.

The underlying principle behind these texts is that harmony sanctions harmoniousness ( sounds that ' please ') by conforming to certain pre-established compositional principles.