He's almost like this kind of Beethovenian figure in jazz, which is incredible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ran Blake: A Blur Of Film Noir, Improvisation] Reference

"Beethovenian" cadences emerging in between earthy folksong and propulsive rhythms.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

If only that paint had been lead-based, I might have been inspired to Beethovenian flights of fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

For the near future, expect this space to be largely occupied by Beethovenian trivia. posted by Matthew @ 12: 40 PM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

It says something that the Calder Quartet, in its recital at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Saturday, was able to conjure the lush world of Ravel's String Quartet in the lyrical first movement, and found a Beethovenian strain of stark yet approachable melancholy in the final movement.    From Wordnik.com.  ['How Sweet the Sound' gospel competition; Calder Quartet; Left Bank Quartet] Reference

These include "ready for romance" (code word for nineteenth-century repertoire), "only a slow dance" (the slow movement, outside the context of the full sonata), and the notion of an expressive historical musical continuum delivered at the end of the Beethovenian refrain music ( "this night can last forever").    From Wordnik.com.  [They built you a temple, and locked you away] Reference

After Beethovenian grandeur, BSO pivots toward Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Minnesota Orchestra makes the BBC] Reference

The only suggestion of picturesque Beethovenian nature we get in.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

Now, how does the true Beethovenian Allegro appear with regard to this?.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference

Rationalist-secularist hero immediately followed by my Beethovenian hero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

And then there are Beethovenian writers, who tinker at the point of utterance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Higher Ed] Reference

Edit your papers a lot (but, in truth, better to be a Combiner than a Mozartian or Beethovenian).    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Higher Ed] Reference

The Fifth Symphony's scherzo is gorgeously Beethovenian, guaranteed to perk up the most jaded of souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

And others (like me) are more like Beethovenian, and continue to edit and polish the text for long time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Higher Ed] Reference

The finale brought the odd smudges - but who really cares about those - and the Beethovenian equivalent of Jelly Roll Morton in the jazzy middle section.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Well, if he didn't make it he should have, for it is as Beethovenian as anything else he did, and its instrumentation possesses all the hallmarks of his scoring practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audiophile Audition Headlines] Reference

As to the coyer subtleties of the score, their discovery provides fresh interest for repeated hearings, giving The Ring a Beethovenian inexhaustibility and toughness of wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring] Reference

Tonal colour was deftly matched to musical character; Lewis's playing had sinew and imagination, and the surreptitious start to the finale identified a nice touch of Beethovenian wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The following year he displayed his Beethovenian credentials in a concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra consisting of the Coriolan Overture, the Seventh Symphony and the Third Piano Concerto.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online]

In the course of the argument so far, two species of Allegro have been mentioned; an emotional and sentimental character has been assigned to the latter, the true Beethovenian Allegro, whereas the older.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference

Aren't we all - my student, Beethoven, Agee, Tymoczko - playing variations on the fact that, as Tymoczko concludes, "we can have tremendous, Beethovenian passions without losing all sense of our own limitation"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Higher Ed] Reference

Zukunftsmusik, he says: “In his Great Mass Beethoven has employed the choir and orchestra almost exactly as in the symphony;” and elsewhere he cites it as being a “strictly symphonic work of the truest Beethovenian spirit.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beethoven A Character Study]

My most recent paper that was accepted for publication went through 17 rounds of edits over a two-year span, and one that a colleague and I submitted yesterday had about 9-10 revisions (so you might label me a Beethovenian; see below).    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside Higher Ed] Reference

It is not easy to estimate the positive weight and value of modern, Beethovenian, music -- but we may perhaps hope to get at some negative proof of its worth, by an examination of the pseudo-Beethovenian-classicism now in the ascendant.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference

Accordingly the professional musicians under examination appear as monstrosities in the direction of musical arithmetic; and it is not difficult to understand how such musicians, endowed with the very reverse of a Beethovenian temperament, should succeed and flourish with a nervous system of the commonest kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference

She and Gardiner uncovered qualities of elation and nobility in the score that are uniquely Beethovenian, and her playing was just unforgettable - in particular the tense rigour she brought to the cadenza, her quizzical way with the final chords and above all, the unaccompanied, pedalled right-hand phrases that close the Adagio, in which time stood still.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk] Reference

And there was comparable head scratching over other Beethovenian innovations: the harmonically ambiguous, meandering opening of the First Symphony; the ominous - sounding timpani, tuned in diminished fifths, in Florestan's aria in the opera Fidelio; the use of four light, solo timpani strokes to begin the Violin Concerto; the violent starting and stopping in the first movement of the Fifth Symphony and the merging of the third and fourth movements into a single continuum; the imitations of nature in the "Pastoral" Symphony (although in this case the precedents were many); the tempestuousness and vehemence of many parts of the piano sonatas; and above all, the unprecedented technical demands that the vast majority of Beethoven's works made on instrumentalists and singers.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Ninth'] Reference

We stand to-day before the Beethovenian Symphony as before the landmark of an entirely new period in the history of universal art, for through it there came into the world a phenomenon not even remotely approached by anything the art of any age or any people has to show us. ”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beethoven A Character Study]

Beethovenian strenuousness (Drastik).    From Wordnik.com.  [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference

Beethovenian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Esquire.com Article Feed] Reference

Beethovenian rumble.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference