Compared to many popular songwriters, Mercury also tended to write musically complex material.

The song is complex musically, recalling "Life Can Be So Nice" from Parade.

Song structures, whilst still containing musically complex parts, were simpler, in some cases using the verse/chorus/verse formula.

Like many operas, lots of musicals are musically complex and rich with ensembles.

Elektra is musically complex and difficult, and requires great stamina from the singers and orchestra.

Albert Herring is a musically complex work, despite its somewhat light-hearted subject matter.

Foreshadowing the jazz era, his actual music was simple, allowing the composer to instruct the performers in developing more musically complex versions.

Alongside humorous lyrics, Zappa presented many musically complex instrumental passages which stretched the band's skill to the absolute limit.

Although this article primarily concerns musical theatre works that are "non-operatic", the overlap remains between lighter operatic forms and more musically complex or ambitious musicals.

For instance, when Balanchine staged "Agon," he frequently changed passages in the musically complex finale.