In an important sense, this is a transitional piece from Broadway to the classical Robbins masterpieces to come.

The improvisatory spirit of the transitional pieces makes them a bit less salable, because, he explains, "they satisfied neither the goose nor the gander."

It shows a relatively primitive approach compared to identified works from the 1290s, especially after Giotto it could be considered as an important transitional piece but "antiquated".

Nonetheless, he invented a highly dramatic situation in his next major ballet, "Facsimile," which he called a transitional piece.

Written in 1939 (not posthumously in 1967, as the packaging states), it is a transitional piece, drawing on both the uncompromising avant-gardist and the mature populist.

Book i is interspersed with poetry (largely absent from book ii), usually used as "transitional pieces" between different stages of the narrative.

"It's a transitional piece, which takes a brown field and leaves it a green field."

Mr. Myller has also developed a transitional piece that makes it possible to connect his blocks with standard Lego pieces.

We have to consider this essentially a transitional piece of work.

He also calls those works transitional pieces and anomalies that stand between different compositional styles of his oeuvre.