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- adjective music Pertaining to, or characteristic of, a
soloist
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Examples
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BC: Yeah, they know roughly where it's going to be, but in terms of the little soloistic parts, I will fit those all in later.
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BC: Yeah, they know roughly where it's going to be, but in terms of the little soloistic parts, I will fit those all in later.
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BC: Yeah, they know roughly where it's going to be, but in terms of the little soloistic parts, I will fit those all in later.
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BC: Yeah, they know roughly where it's going to be, but in terms of the little soloistic parts, I will fit those all in later.
Mike Ragogna: Wednesday Windfall : Conversations with KISS' Gene Simmons, Brian Culbertson and The Weepies Mike Ragogna 2010
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A term used between 1750 and 1775 in southern Germany, Austria and Bohemia as a title of a composition or of a single movement; the soloistic cassation is stylistically related to the Divertimento, the orchestral cassation to the Serenade.
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But standing also adds a level of soloistic bravura to their playing as well as a tightening of the ensemble.
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Behind them was a large chorus drawn from young singers supported by the BBC Performing Arts Fund, the smaller and more soloistic Proms
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But standing also adds a level of soloistic bravura to their playing as well as a tightening of the ensemble.
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The third movement is almost a mini-concerto for the saxophones, starting with perky soloistic lines accompanied by the snare drum and other percussion; that music develops into a fugue which is followed by a chorale that accelerates into very lively cascading music in close harmony that could have come from Duke Ellington and then dissolves, leaving only the ghosts of the accompaniment on the snare drum.
Sequenza21/ 2008
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Yet, the instrument’s potential had clearly been recognised and, several decades later, the clarinet, already greatly improved, had established itself in various European orchestras and the composers of the Mannheim School had demonstrated to the world the considerable soloistic capabilities of this newcomer to the family of reed instruments.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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