through-composed
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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The suite is mostly through-composed, yet its harmonic palette invites creativity—“like a crayon box,” Mr. Ross told me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
For stretches of that performance, I longed for a recording of this “Buddha,” and had a similar during the Saturday afternoon set, when Richard Valitutto took on Eastman’s through-composed, fully notated “Piano 2.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
I wrote about how much I loved their work and how right it was for “Cyrano”; I wrote that I wanted to create a through-composed stripped-down cinematic musical without a big nose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
Follow-up “Relativity Suite” is just as ambitious, a through-composed work weaving strands of Turkish and South Asian music with Chinese zither, Malian donso ngoni and Indian tambura.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2021
Though they were blown away by what he was attempting, very few followed his example into through-composed music drama, except the one-hit-wonder German composer of the opera Hansel and Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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