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poulenc

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for poulenc.

Editorial note

I don't dislike all strange music - Satie and Poulenc are some of my favorites.

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Quick take

french composer (1899-1963)

Meaning at a glance

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noun

french composer (1899-1963)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for poulenc.

noun

french composer (1899-1963)

Example sentences

1

I don't dislike all strange music - Satie and Poulenc are some of my favorites.

2

Idk about the rest, but Satie was like 30+ years older than Poulenc, and died a few years after Poulenc's first composition.

3

His friends included Debusy, Ravel, Poulenc, Man Ray, and the list goes on.

4

Satie's music definitely influenced Poulenc's, a lot.

5

I really like his style of music (also Poulenc).

6

Full nationalisation (100%): the Compagnie Générale d'Electricité, the Compagnie Générale de Constructions Téléphoniques, Pechiney-Ugine-Kuhlmann, Rhône-Poulenc, Saint-Gobain-Pont-à-Mousson, Thompson-Brandt.

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I used to play a choral piece by Poulenc (“O Magnum Mysterium”) with a swung jazz rhythm and it takes a very different character when you do that (see also countless jazz reinterpretations of Beatles and other pop songs).

8

The companies involved included Alpha Therapeutic Corporation, Institut Mérieux (which then became Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc., and is now part of Sanofi), Bayer Corporation and its Cutter Biological division, Baxter International and its Hyland Pharmaceutical division.

9

It is pretty bad for classical composers - groups together completely unrelated, very different people: I typed Monteverdi and the closest neighbors shown are Scriabin, Britten, Poulenc, Faure, Schubert.

10

He is the author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which won him a Pulitzer Prize as well as Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize.

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You will note how I painstakingly repeat the terms "literate music" and "notated music" because that is the one distinguishing factor that unites everything from Perotin to Poulenc, and is a coherent topic on which discussion is possible rather than the much more amorphous idea of just "music".

Quote examples

1

I used to play a choral piece by Poulenc (“O Magnum Mysterium”) with a swung jazz rhythm and it takes a very different character when you do that (see also countless jazz reinterpretations of Beatles and other pop songs).

2

You will note how I painstakingly repeat the terms "literate music" and "notated music" because that is the one distinguishing factor that unites everything from Perotin to Poulenc, and is a coherent topic on which discussion is possible rather than the much more amorphous idea of just "music".

Proper noun examples

1

Idk about the rest, but Satie was like 30+ years older than Poulenc, and died a few years after Poulenc's first composition.

2

His friends included Debusy, Ravel, Poulenc, Man Ray, and the list goes on.

3

Satie's music definitely influenced Poulenc's, a lot.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use poulenc in a sentence?

I don't dislike all strange music - Satie and Poulenc are some of my favorites.

What does poulenc mean?

french composer (1899-1963)

What part of speech is poulenc?

poulenc is commonly used as noun.