musical transcription

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The percussive, dissonant fury of the first movement, titled “Apologue: Of Rage and Remembrance,” feels like a musical transcription of an ACT UP protest.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2019

Besides, it's all there in the musical transcription on Sampson's sheet music: "Two and two to Harvey Kuenn, one strike away."

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2016

His last major work was the searing, stream-of-consciousness String Trio, which he admitted privately was a musical transcription of his diabetic delirium and crash.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2011