But it will always attract connoisseurs for its poignancy and brilliant instrumental writing.

Rossini's instrumental writing is another point of contention, particularly among American opera orchestras.

In the instrumental writing for this score, he evinces significant gifts on a strictly musical plane as well.

Pictorial effects in the instrumental writing are equally striking.

The vocal and instrumental writing is done with consummate skill.

He applies bold strokes throughout in vocal as well as instrumental writing.

Still, the instrumental writing is clear, varied and subtly sophisticated.

His instrumental writing does not extend far beyond the simple development of folktunes.

His vocal music, as singers complain, often imitates instrumental writing.

The singers are like an obbligato, an almost secondary decoration to the instrumental writing.