pocket symphony

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

pocket symphony (plural pocket symphonies)

  1. (music) A song with some characteristics of a symphony.
    • 2010, Virgil Moorefield, The Producer as Composer: Shaping the Sounds of Popular Music, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 21:
      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”: […]

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