An ensemble frames such passages in "Bach: Multiplicity," and these intimate sections are the most striking.

His arrangements were precise and exuberant, made of interlocking riffs and strong ensemble passages.

In ensemble passages, she says, this can amount to jumping a little higher than the rest.

The ensemble passages are more structured.

The ensemble passages benefit from crisp execution and the arrangements reveal hard work and rehearsal.

One composition began with a notated ensemble passage that slowly rotated a single, moody, complex chord.

Feet traced circles, as in the tango, and in an ensemble passage, one dancer after another orbited the rest.

But their ensemble passages, which can be the most transcendent sequences of the ballet, are a mishmash.

However, the ensemble passages are frequently effective, and the genius of Armstrong's cornet or trumpet playing touch virtually every recording.

Those terms include not only the customary solo opportunities but also a variety of ensemble passages that break up and support the solos.