The composer often attempts to give a particular expression an objective status.

In the way the composer attempted to dramatize the political, he anticipated Verdi.

In the madrigal, the composer attempted to express the emotion contained in each line, and sometimes individual words, of a celebrated poem.

In the late sixteenth-century, composers attempted to recreate Greek drama using a style called monody.

Consciously or unconsciously, many other composers have been attempting to imitate his style.

Subsequently, several Russian and Polish composers attempted to write lyrics for this music.

Only two major composers have attempted Dostoyevsky operas, and both set relatively brief and rather atypical works.

The composer swallowed and attempted to do as he was instructed.

Because of the demand from the aristocracy for European music, Russian classical composers attempted to write in Western style.

Different composers attempted different degrees of continuity and coordination.