| 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. |
| These works were the closest he came to writing the kind of through-composed opera Wagner pioneered. |
| Perhaps the musical future will be more romantic, more through-composed, than classic after all? |
| It's one of the masterworks of late Romanticism that pours grand emotion into a unifying, through-composed framework. |
| My other doubt is that, even if Cats was not the first through-composed score, it signalled the subordination of the dramatic book to an all-enveloping experience. |
| He has a way of writing that seems through-composed, with unequal length phrases and deceptive harmonic structure, and yet the songs seem effortless and beautiful. |
