Limb's sixminute score treads a fine line of emotional ambiguity, beginning in an uneasy lyricism which hints at darker, more passionate feelings below the surface.
While this is a somewhat poetic term for a simulation, there are a number of features which map the metaphor to the implementation in a manner which is beyond lyricism.
These brief moments did not attempt to describe the work of the country-dwellers, but were imbued with a quiet lyricism.
What has been written about simile rarely recognizes the lyricism of these little windows into a metaphorized other world.
There is marvellous lyricism, pawky humour, eerie fantasy, all limned in a spare and vivid style of presentation that never wastes a note.
Contributing to the fugitive atmosphere is the evasion of lyricism, coupled with a general avoidance of nor mal string tone.
But the world has moved on, and that sweet preindependence lyricism is severely out of fashion in today's literary circles.
For the composer, an avowed concern was the relationship between speech, recitative and pure lyricism.
