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Works such as the magnificent Petrushka stand among the greatest symphonic works of any era.
His sessions listening to symphonic music with his friend Edmund Anderson had changed him.
The concert's first half was given over to symphonic fragments, starting with Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759.
In the grand symphonic tradition of Mahler and Shostakovich, Corigliano has fashioned a kaleidoscope of layered instrumental textures.
The way in which the Fourth Symphony is constructed owes very little to traditional 19th-century norms, but it is truly symphonic and truly original.

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symphonic
This view was not his but that of the disciples, eager to defend him against conservative critics whose orientation was towards symphonic composition.
Each of the five massive movements has its own character and yet the work coheres as a symphonic essay of sustained power and brilliance.
The song-object now dissolves into symphonic extensions without the further threat of silence or the need for strophic markers.
The clarinet is not cast as a concerto soloist pitted against the orchestra: rather it is part of the symphonic argument, avoiding empty display.
Inevitably, over an 80-minute span of music, there is some repetition and the material can lack symphonic weight.
Such an ambitious project with such a diverse stylistic hinterland might be thought inimical to truly symphonic composition: so, alas, it proves.
Ranging from thirty to forty-five minutes in length, these are hefty works, often symphonic in scope.
His works include instrumental, symphonic, choral, theatre and film music.
Before commenting on the ending of the work, it is important to mention that this concert was far from typical for a symphonic premiere.
On the other hand, women are described as indifferent to symphonic instrumental music, in contrast to the men's increasing attention.
From the introductory bars, it is evident that this is going to be a large-scale, truly symphonic work.
Differentiated by timbre, each contains several moving parts that combine to form a stable mass of sound; together they provide considerable symphonic effect.
It seems, however, that the symphonic element predominates in him!
He is able to create remarkable symphonic diversity for what was a high school band commission.
In true symphonic manner, these opening pages contain all the material from which the rest of the work unfolds.
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