They were intended for the practice and performance of unfamiliar operatic music.
Elgar took full advantage of the opportunity to hear unfamiliar music.
This suggests that even very brief exposure to unfamiliar music can rapidly affect music perception and memory.
My thinking was that unfamiliar music needs a familiar story.
The festival on the whole was a showcase for unfamiliar Soviet music and dance, some of it less than totally "official" art.
This sequence is danced to unfamiliar music, interpolated into the first act.
To the young woman, no less than the rest, it was magic that created the unfamiliar music; it sounded like nothing ever heard on earth.
The same commercial was paired with either familiar or unfamiliar classical music of a slow or fast tempo.
The musicians are playing a lot of difficult and unfamiliar music during this festival, and this work is especially so.
Any unfamiliar music has to rely on the commitment and skills of its performers to put it across.