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pocket symphony

pocket symphony noun: a song with some characteristics of a symphony.

Noun

pocket symphony (plural pocket symphonies)

  1. A song with some characteristics of a symphony.
    • The changes of orchestration and acoustic space from section to section serve to take the listener into new sonic realms every thirty seconds or so, which may be one reason Wilson dubbed this song [Good Vibrations] his “pocket symphony”:[…]2010, Virgil Moorefield, The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 21

Forms of pocket symphony

pluralpocket symphonies

Origin of pocket symphony

Popularized by English journalist Derek Taylor, meaning “miniature version” of a symphony.

Questions about pocket symphony

What does pocket symphony mean?
Pocket symphony means a song with some characteristics of a symphony.
What part of speech is pocket symphony?
Pocket symphony is a noun.
What is the plural of pocket symphony?
The plural of pocket symphony is pocket symphonies.

Words near pocket symphony in the dictionary

  1. pocket rockets
  2. pocket shrapnel
  3. pocket square
  4. pocket squares
  5. pocket symphonies
  6. pocket symphony
  7. pocket T
  8. pocket T-shirt
  9. pocket T-shirts
  10. pocket tee
  11. pocket tees

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