But overall, the text offers the kind of surprising turns that the music lacks.

His music lacked sharp changes in style over time.

On some levels this indeterminacy was fascinating, but the music lacked a center of gravity and never came into focus.

I think their music is really beautiful, fragile but not lacking guts.

When the orchestra was on its own, the music making lacked the same cohesion and polish.

What the music lacks is any shred of conventional structural organization.

For if the music is lacking, something must fill the vacuum.

In the process, they hatched a theory about what modern music lacked.

That's not to say that his music lacked gravity or focus.

The music lacked substance, but the drama moved him to tears.