Symphony Sentence Examples

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  • A symphony of chuckles was the only response.

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  • The musical development of the city was stimulated by the creation of a symphony orchestra.

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  • In his 5th symphony he introduced 3 trombones and extended both the upper and lower extremes of the windband by a piccolo and a double bassoon.

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  • I got to catch a plane back up to Boston—tickets for the Symphony and stuff like that.

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  • He also wrote incidental music to Hamlet, a symphony, and other works.

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  • His first symphony was written in 1862-1867; his opera Prince Igor, begun in 1869, was left unfinished at his death, and was completed by RimskyKorsakov and Glazounov (1889); his symphonic sketch, "In the Steppes" (1880) is, however, his best-known work.

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  • In 1905 symphony concerts were embarked on, and continued for several seasons.

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  • But as the first great master of the quartet and the symphony his claim is incontestable.

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  • She walks to the tune of an invisible symphony.

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  • To Thackeray her diction recalled the sound of village bells falling sweetly and softly on the ear, and it sent a shiver through John Stuart Mill, like a symphony of Haydn or Mozart.

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  • Straightened and rotated symphony concert at from the bike.

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  • Wherever Mozart found the inspiration for his sublime melodies for the 40th symphony, they were immediate hits.

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  • Why has n't someone composed a symphony for badly played violins?

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  • The data center is now akin to a symphony hall with 150 people per seat.

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  • Complete Beethoven and Brahms symphony cycles with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Masur at the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens.

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  • At the 1985 AGM Gordon Wilkinson gave us our first taste of CD sound with Neville Marriner 's recording of the Beethoven Eroica symphony.

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  • With seven major symphony orchestras Berlin is indisputably one of the world 's greatest cities for classical music.

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  • I invite you to join the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the world 's finest symphony orchestras.

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  • Few, if any, symphony orchestras in the world would dare to do something similar.

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  • And working with the great conductors - I got to play timpani in Mahler 's Ninth Symphony with Claudio Abbado.

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  • His most recent work, a trumpet concerto, was premiered by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra in 1996.

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  • He worked as a violinist in the symphony orchestra of the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava for five years.

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  • She has served on the Boards of many philanthropic organizations including the Boston Symphony Orchestra Overseers (1993-2003), YWCA (1988-1998; Austin, Boston and New York), DoSomething (2003-2005) and Public Allies (2006-present).

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  • The models available include the classic bad, deluxe bed, symphony bed, opulence bed, and luna bed.

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  • If this fails, you can try keeping a water bottle handy so you can give Kitty a quick squirt when the symphony begins.

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  • You've just woken up to the sound of your cat hacking up a symphony and you get up to investigate.

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  • Their horns are now used and sought after by numerous foreign as well domestic symphony orchestras!

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  • Consider giving a membership to the zoo, symphony, theatre or local museum to the couple who enjoys cultural events.

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  • Jacques Singer, Marc's father, was a symphony conductor, while his mother Leslie was a pianist.

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  • Meaning you can fish, bird watch, or enjoy a gourmet meal on the upper deck while listening to the symphony of humpback whales and calving glacier ice whenever you please.

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  • Cultural opportunities also abound, including the ballet, opera, symphony and several museums.

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  • The Orange Stinger ride closed and is being re-themed as Silly Symphony Swings, based on the old-time Mickey Mouse cartoon.

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  • This side scrolling RPG (a brand of game that was created with the PS one hit Symphony of the Night) takes you through the bad guy's castle at a sideways glance.

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  • Watch as the Hanenbows ricochet back and forth on the leaves and create a beautiful symphony of sound.

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  • The London Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra have even performed music from Final Fantasy.

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  • The dance became extremely popular when a song called "The Hustle" by Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony hit number one on the charts in 1975.

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  • Other heeled offerings include the black patent leather Symphony and the fetching faux-snakeskin Transform.

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  • Whether it's the preschool playgroup or a night at the symphony, this Fossil watch will look great!

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  • A year later, the company enhanced its offering by launching the Symphony edition.

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  • For every drawn out, melancholy symphony, they also had a catchy, almost cute song to go with it.

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  • They sometimes offer Colorado Symphony live broadcasts.

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  • There are numerous styles of classical music from symphony to concerto to opera and classical music pieces have only increased in difficulty over the years.

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  • The name Tanglewood comes from a book by Nathaniel Hawthorne that was written at the site that would become the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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  • The Tappan family continued to own its summer residence at Tanglewood for nearly a century more, until the Boston Symphony Orchestra came calling.

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  • The Boston Symphony Orchestra made its debut at Tanglewood under a tent Aug. 23, 1936.

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  • Like many other similar events elsewhere in the nation, the annual event expanded beyond summer concerts performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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  • According to the history of the festival provided by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, more than 350,000 people attend the festival each summer season.

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  • For more information on buying tickets, concert schedules at Tanglewood and directions, visit the official Boston Symphony Orchestra website.

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  • The Star Wars theme song was an amazing symphonic masterpiece created by composer John Williams, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.

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  • A still more remarkable instance will be found in the third statement of the theme of the finale of the 9th symphony.

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  • He spent the autumn at Venice, and was well enough on Christmas Eve to conduct his early symphony (composed in 1833) at a private performance given at the Liceo Marcello.

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  • His symphony Le Midi (written in 1761) already shows a remarkable freedom and independence in the handling of orchestral forces, and further stages of advance were reached in the oratorio of Tobias, in the Paris and Salomon symphonies, and above all in the Creation, which turns to good account some of the debt which he owed to his younger contemporary.

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  • The 1 This date is given in Grove (new ed.), but the style of the work is far earlier than that of the 7th symphony (1884) which quotes it in the slow movement.

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  • The first volume published of his posthumous works was the exquisite and splendid Thedtre en liberte, a sequence if not a symphony of seven poems in dramatic form, tragic or comic or fanciful eclogues, incomparable with the work of any other man but the author of The Tempest and The Winter's Tale in combination and alternation of gayer and of graver harmonies.

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  • With a marriage of voice and symphony unlike any other, most critics consider this work the apex of sacred choral and orchestral music.

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  • During her studies Claire played first clarinet in the Symphony Orchestra and performed with the New Music Group and various other ensembles.

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  • The program continues with Hayden's Oxford Symphony in which the Austrian composer lyrically sums up what he found to be quintessentially English.

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  • Yet the symphony also reconciles the intricately serial derivation of its material with a clearly diatonic goal.

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  • A very grown-up account of Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony followed, taut from beginning to end.

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  • Recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, the album yielded a massive hit in Night in White Satin.

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  • The symphony bears religious leanings, most obviously in its subtitle.

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  • Few works capture this more ardently than Elgar's Second Symphony with its abundance of lyrical melody.

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  • They're going get a symphony orchestra to back me up with stuff that I wrote in F sharp minor and stuff.

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  • He has also played tuba with many of the world's leading symphony orchestras.

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  • The West Midlands also has its own symphony orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, based in Great Malvern.

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  • Written originally for solo percussion and orchestra, by Michael Daugherty, this work was commissioned by the US National Symphony Orchestra.

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  • They will then head straight to Birmingham for final preparations for the concert at Symphony Hall next Thursday.

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  • The circuit board from a Symphony battery powered radiogram.

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  • Listen to woodland symphony and learn how to identify the songsters from year-round residents to our summer migrants.

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  • Why hasn't someone composed a symphony for badly played violins?

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  • And she is the first British woman to have composed and conducted a symphony for over 30 years.

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  • The thought that the composer would never actually hear the symphony made it a very poignant occasion.

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  • Like our own Mary Chain, the guitars create a symphony of noise which is tempered by wonderfully warm melodic moments.

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  • He then takes the bass solos in Beethoven's ninth symphony for the inaugural performance of the Opera North 05/06 concert season in Huddersfield.

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  • Dr. King left an unfinished symphony which we must finish.

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  • When Beethoven was writing his 9th symphony he requested a piano that had a percussion pedal on it.

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  • Apparently, he spent much of that period working on an eighth symphony.

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  • At the 1985 AGM Gordon Wilkinson gave us our first taste of CD sound with Neville Marriner's recording of the Beethoven Eroica symphony.

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  • The second and fifth symphonies are brilliant, and the fourth symphony is also pretty good.

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  • In North America he conducts the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Toronto, Washington DC, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Minnesota.

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  • I like to think that the modern day symphony orchestra has evolved to the state that it has.

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  • With seven major symphony orchestras Berlin is indisputably one of the world's greatest cities for classical music.

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  • I invite you to join the American Friends of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the world's finest symphony orchestras.

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  • A thunderous V8 symphony emanating from the pair of enlarged chrome tailpipes is enough to send a shiver down the spine.

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  • And working with the great conductors - I got to play timpani in Mahler's Ninth Symphony with Claudio Abbado.

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  • Nelson instead studied tuba at San Francisco State University, later touring Europe as part of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.

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  • Symphony also features an audible radio tuner - using a special sliding tone that goes up or down according to the frequency.

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  • They sounded unnatural, like a psychotic symphony playing in a cave.

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  • The next day he woke up to find himself the principal violist of the Symphony.

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  • There was plangent solo violin work, some ribaldry from the clarinets, the other spot-lit woodwind in this symphony.

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  • Modern composers have often produced their most characteristic orchestral effects with fewer contrasting elements than Bach uses in his Trauer-Ode, in the pastoral symphony in his Christmas Oratorio, in the first chorus of the cantata Liebster Gott, wann werd' ich sterben, and in many other cases; but the modern instrumental effects are as far outside Bach's scope as a long passage of preparation on the dominant leading to the return of a first subject is beyond the scope of a gigue in a suite.

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  • This being so, it is absurd in a symphony to use only such orchestral colours as would be fit for dramatic moments which are not likely to recur for an hour or two, if they recur at all.

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  • A symphony was produced at the Gewandhaus concerts in 1833, and in the following year he was appointed conductor of the opera at Magdeburg.

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  • As regards other compositions, the early unpublished works include a symphony, a cantata, some incidental music to a pantomime, and several overtures, four of which have recently been discovered and produced.

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  • At the pianoforte his achievements culminate in the two books of studies, twice rewritten, and finally published in 1852 as Etudes d'execution transcendante, the Etudes de concert and the Paganini Studies; the two concertos and the Todtentanz, the Sonata the Hungarian Rhapsodies and the fine transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies (the 9th for two pianofortes as well as solo), and of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, and the symphony, Harold en Italie.

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  • By the side of it ranks the Faust Symphony (1854-1857), in which the moods of Goethe's characters - Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles - are depicted in three instrumental movements, with a chorus of male voices, supplying a kind of comment, by way of close.

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  • The municipality furthered Wagner's scheme in every way, and in May 1872 the foundation stone of the Festspielhaus was laid, the event being commemorated by a notable performance of Beethoven's Choral Symphony in the old opera-house.

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  • Later the same year Nielsen wrote a number of minor pieces for a wind quintet formed by players in the Royal Danish Symphony Orchestra.

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  • In March 2001 he made his Symphony Hall, Birmingham recital debut to critical acclaim.

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  • Into this symphony of white goods comes the groaning crash of self-closing doors whose hinges are badly in need of oil.

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  • His recording career began in 1958 with Decca 's first stereophonic recording, " 1812 " with the London Symphony Orchestra.

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  • A fish to symphony concert at food fun holiday time to.

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  • Symphony and popular concerts are held throughout the year in various public halls, and, during the winter, concerts of church music are frequently given in the Protestant Kreuzand Frauen-Kirchen, and on Sundays in the Roman Catholic church.

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  • I got to catch a plane back up to Boston—tickets for the Symphony and stuff like that.

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  • Opera is performed at the Romanian Opera House and the Romanian Athenaeum has two symphony orchestras.

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  • He was chosen to sing the baritone solos in the four colleges performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in the Royal Albert Hall.

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  • Since 1981, he has been first oboe of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.

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  • There is not room for one together with an independent violoncello part; the wonderful use of muted solo violoncellos in the slow movement of the Pastoral Symphony being a special effect, like the earlier instance in Haydn's 12th Salomon Symphony.

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  • Such a passage as bars 5 to 8 in the first movement of Beethoven's 8th symphony is as unintelligible from the point of view of Wagnerian opera as the opening of the Rheingold is unintelligible from the point of view of symphony.

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  • Among musical organizations may be mentioned the Handel and Haydn Society (1815), the Harvard Musical Association (1837), the Philharmonic (1880) and the Symphony Orchestra, organized in 1881 by the generosity of Henry Lee Higginson.

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  • Liszt's masterpiece in orchestral music is the Dante Symphony (1847-1855), the subject of which was particularly well suited to his temperament, and offered good chances for the display of his peculiar powers as a master of instrumental effect.

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  • Borodin also wrote a second symphony (1871-1877), part of a third (orchestrated after his death by Glazounov), and a few string quartets and some fine songs.

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  • On his return to Vienna in 1756 he became famous as teacher and composer, in 1759 he was appointed conductor to the private band of Count Morzin, for whom he wrote several orchestral works (including a symphony in D major erroneously called his first), and in 1760 he was promoted to the sub-directorship of Prince Paul Esterhazy's Kapelle, at that time the best in Austria.

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  • Here Haydn wrote, in rapid succession, eighteen divertimenti which include his first symphony and his first quartet; the two earliest examples of the forms with which his name is most closely associated.

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  • The various ways in which this special style could be modified by the scale of the work, and contrasted with the broader and more elaborate parts, gave the Mass (even in its merely technical aspects) a range which made it to the 16th-century composer what the symphony is to the great instrumental classics.

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