"He didn't want music too bombastic, he wanted things people could sing," said the Rev. Michael Edwards, a member of the committee that planned the celebration.

"The Envelope" is also a delightful reading of some of Rossini's most melodic, sweetly bombastic music.

Berlioz, though working only 11 years later, wrote big, bombastic music in this sprawling comedy.

Some rather bombastic music began playing, and G'joth remembered the other thing he disliked about Reshtarc's operas: the noise.

Even Auber's bombastic music sounded sleepy.

X-Ray Dog composes and plays "bombastic, epic, orchestral music".

He added that "the duo don't make bombastic music [...] but in the world of low-key electronic music, they're arguably the best at what they do."

The Ramones' style was in part a reaction against the heavily produced, often bombastic music that dominated the pop charts in the 1970s.

This is not to say that in the Classical period E-flat major was only for bombastic music with brass.

The music of Epica has been described as combination of "a dark, haunting gothic atmosphere with bombastic and symphonic music".