If Cleveland is to celebrate its first major professional sports title since 1964 and the Cavaliers are to become the first team to win an N.B.A title after trailing by three games to one, James will most likely need one more virtuoso performance to earn the signature achievement of his already storied career.
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The requirement to submit a reception or diploma piece is closely related to the practice in the medieval period and later of requiring a craftsman to submit one or more virtuoso or test-pieces to a guild to demonstrate his skill before he was granted membership.Chavannes, Meta. "masterpiece" in The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Unlike most of his contemporaries, like Toussaint Bertin de la Doué, Charles-Hubert Gervais or André Campra, Louis de La Coste rejects Italianism in his music and pays homage to the traditional French style that Jean-Baptiste Lully upheld and monopolized. However, he reappropriates this aesthetic while deploying he originality through a "very fine and characterized" instrumental composition style throughout his career. The vocal composition in Orion differs from Lacoste's first four operas at the Académie de musique by being more virtuoso and lyrical (an approach that dates back to 1725 with Télégone).
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Beginning in about the 1920s, African American churches featured early gospel in the form of worshipers proclaiming their religious devotion (testifying) in an improvised, often musical manner. Modern gospel began with the work of composers, most importantly Thomas A. Dorsey, who "(composed) songs based on familiar spirituals and hymns, fused to blues and jazz rhythms". From these early 20th- century churches, gospel music spread across the country. It remained associated almost entirely with African American churches, and usually featured a choir along with one or more virtuoso soloists.
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A concert piece (German: Konzertstück; French: pièce de concert, also morceau de concert) is a musical composition, in most cases in one movement, intended for performance in a concert. Usually it is written for one or more virtuoso instrumental soloists and orchestral or piano accompaniment.Konzertstück ou Concertstuck at Larousse website In some cases concert pieces start with a separate opening movement, or are otherwise in more than one movement or section. A piece that presents itself as a miniature concerto is rather called concertino than concert piece, although in German several such concertinos are known as Konzertstücke.
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This second album was significantly more complex, and featured much more virtuoso guitar work, elaborate drum sequences, sixty- fourth-note bass solos, and death metal influences.Decibel review of 'Outsourcing Morality.' (Nov. 2006 Issue) The guitar work had expanded its reach to include, for the first time, much more melodic movements, such as the ones that appear on the songs “Only in Death” and “A Dying Act of Defiance.” The lyrical content was as diverse as it was on the first album, and included songs about Wall Street corruption, existential philosophy, unethical corporate business practices, consumer culture, the virtues of suicide, and the inherent worthlessness of human beings.
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A pas de six in the same tempo includes virtuoso writing for the piano, which leads the orchestra for the ensuing pas de trois, though the orchestra controls the second pas de trois while the piano has more virtuoso work with rippling cascades of notes; before the Stravinskian rhythms emerge for piano and orchestra at the beginning of the pas de dix-huit. The orchestral momentum, of high violins en masse, sprightly wind writing, brass chords punctuating the highly charged rhythmic style, and a continuation of bravura piano writing, is maintained throughout the opening of the pas de six that follows. The orchestra then introduces a valse for a general dance (pas d’ensemble) that could almost belong to one of Ravel's more advanced scores. A pas d’action then begins to prepare for the finale.
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