DECLARATIVE
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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DECLARATIVE. In GRAMMAR, a term for the
MOOD through which statements are made, in contrast with
imperative,
interrogative,
and exclamative. Although
declarative is often used interchangeably with
statement, it is useful as a means of distinguishing the syntactic form of a sentence from its function: for example, the sentence
You will do as I say is declarative in form, but functions as a command See
INDICATIVE.
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Music of Farwell, Hadley, Herbert, MacDowell and Parker: American Orchestral Compositions (1890-1916)/Edward MacDowell: The Symphonic Poems/William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony; Amy Beach: "Gaelic" Symphony
Magazine article from: Strings; 8/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...elegiac minor to bright major. His Symphonic Poem "Salome," supposedly...concertos and 35 operettas. His Symphonic Poem, "Hero and Leander" is very...orchestral works, including four Symphonic Poems, recorded on their own release...
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Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 3.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 8/1/2007; ; 604 words
; Liszt: Symphonic Poems, Vol. 3. Michael...Liszt wrote thirteen tone poems, and conductor Michael...material, containing the poems Festlange, Ce qu'on entend...festive overture more than a symphonic poem, but appropriate for getting...
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Dvorak: Slavonic Dances; Overtures; Symphonic Poems.
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 12/1/2002; 494 words
; ...Othello"--plus the symphonic poem "The Water Goblin...three gives us three more poems--"The Noonday Witch...Wood Dove"--plus the Symphonic Variations on an Original...especially liked the tone poems for their impressionistic...
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`WOOD NYMPH' SYMPHONIC POEM Orchestra records Sibelius' `lost' work
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 1/16/1996; ; 412 words
; ...Lahti Symphony Orchestra. The "Wood Nymph," a symphonic poem, was discovered late last year at the Helsinki University...Nymph" is longer than Sibelius' last symphony. Symphonic poems generally are shorter that symphonies. "I think...
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Symphony No. 1. Poem.3 The Red Guelder-Rose. Daugava.6 Daybreak in the Field. Piano Concerto in c.1,2 Preludes, "Symphonic Reflections." 3 Russian Songs.4 Pictures of Spain. Rhapsody No. 2. Russian Variations for Harp and Orchestra. Siberian Fantasy
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 7/1/2008; ; 685 words
; ...SVETLANOV Symphony No. 1. Poem.3 The Red Guelder-Rose...Concerto in c.1,2 Preludes, "Symphonic Reflections." 3 Russian Songs...in the Second Rhapsody. His symphonic poems are vibrantly orchestrated...takes the solo part in the Poem for violin and orchestra...
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DISCS: CLASSICAL HHHHH Liszt Symphonic Poems Vol I - BBC Philharmonic/ Noseda CHANDOS
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/11/2005; ; 298 words
; ...revamped Manchester Camerata, Gianandrea Noseda has galvanised the BBC Philharmonic. Their first volume of Liszt's Symphonic Poems is rich in imagery, rapt of sound, and synaesthetic in effect " a beautifully controlled recording. The conclusion...
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`SYMPHONIC POEM' CELEBRATES LIFE, WORK OF AMINAH ROBINSON
Newspaper article from: Call & Post; 12/18/2002; 700+ words
; Symphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Robinson," a major retrospective exhibition that...and at the same time, a spiritual essence not easily identified. "Symphonic Poem" is an all-encompassing term Robinson has coined to describe all...
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John Puccio reviews ...(THE MUSIC)(Ades: Piano Quintet, Schubert: "Trout" Quintet)(Barber: Adagio for Strings, Violin Concerto, Orchestral and Chamber Works)(Bax: Symphonic Poems)(Bruckner: Symphony No. 5)(Concerto Veneziano)(de Falla: El Sombrero de Tres Picos, El Amor Brujo, Danza from La Vida Breve)(Dvorak: Tone Poems)(Grieg: Peer Gynt)(Mahler: Symphony No. 6)(Mendelssohn: Italian and Reformation Symphonies)(Monty Python's Spamalot. A CD Lovingly Ripped Off from the New Musical, Original Broadway Cast Recording)(Mozart: Requiem)(Sound Recording Review)
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 12/1/2005; 700+ words
; Ades: Piano Quintet; Schubert: "Trout" Quintet. Thomas Ades, piano; Arditti Quartet; members of the Belcea Quartet. EMI 7243 5 57664 2. The gimmick here is the coupling of a modern piano quintet, Thomas Ades's 2001 piece, with a traditional quintet, Schubert's 1819 "Trout." In theory, we're
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JOHANNA RUSANEN, ESA RUUTTUNEN, LAULUN YSTAVAT MALE CHOIR, TURKU PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, JORMA PANULA SIBELIUS: KULLERVO -- SYMPHONIC POEM FOR SOPRANO, BARITONE, AND CHORUS NAXOS CD
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/5/1998; ; 456 words
; This record is of twofold interest. First it represents a rare recording by the Finnish conductor and master-teacher of conducting, Jorma Panula, who will be in residence at Tanglewood this summer. Second, it is one of the very few recordings of Sibelius's first masterpiece, "Kullervo" -- a Finnish
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Rachmaninoff's "Symphonic Dances." (poem)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 5/2/1994; ; 366 words
; Yearning, pure and simple. For what, where, whom remaining abstract, only the melody, romantic, sad as now the reminiscence of having heard it long ago in a room that opened out into the bay, the city lights below, thinking then as now of so much that we desire; as then, as I sat listening I
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symphonic poem
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
...translated as ‘tone-poem’, but it has been...suggested that ‘sound-poem’ comes nearer to...20th-cent. composers wrote symphonic poems though they did not always...for what are in effect 3 symphonic poems, Froissart , Cockaigne...
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poem
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
poem. Literary term introduced into music by Liszt with the expression ‘symphonic poem’ to apply to his narrative orch...individual works bearing this title are the Poem by Fibich , a movt. from his orch. serenade...
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tone poem
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tone poem see symphonic poem .
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tone-poem
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
tone-poem. See symphonic poem .
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symphonic study
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
symphonic study. Term used by various composers in different...symphoniques ; Elgar applied the term to his sym.-poem Falstaff , presumably to show that it was an...Rawsthorne described an orch. set of variations as Symphonic Studies.
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