Schnittke's through-composed style is at times powerfully direct, but sometimes too direct, the chorus's declamation dramatic yet detached and almost perfunctory.
In 1916 he wrote what was most probably the first through-composed score for a feature film, The Fall of a Nation, a silent epic.
Henze's through-composed settings are rich in orchestral colour and character.
Because the same music was used for every stanza, the possibilities for detailed word-painting were limited: this is the key difference between the frottola and the through-composed madrigal.
Perhaps the musical future will be more romantic, more through-composed, than classic (with Bachian closed forms) after all?
Definition of through-composed in US English:
through-composed
adjectiveˈTHro͞okəmˌpōzd
(of a composition, especially a song) not based on repeated sections or verses, especially having different music for each verse.
Also called durchkomponiert
Example sentencesExamples
Perhaps the musical future will be more romantic, more through-composed, than classic (with Bachian closed forms) after all?
Henze's through-composed settings are rich in orchestral colour and character.
Because the same music was used for every stanza, the possibilities for detailed word-painting were limited: this is the key difference between the frottola and the through-composed madrigal.
In 1916 he wrote what was most probably the first through-composed score for a feature film, The Fall of a Nation, a silent epic.
Schnittke's through-composed style is at times powerfully direct, but sometimes too direct, the chorus's declamation dramatic yet detached and almost perfunctory.