Sometimes ominous, sometimes overheated, the score's vitality and textural variety keep it interesting.

Ms. Allen not only achieves visual textural variety but also a tactile variance.

These dozen variations, completed in 1964, are dazzling in their textural variety, but a listener can easily lose their thematic thread.

With their extraordinary tonal and textural variety, they remain one of the most striking aspects of his work.

The piece had tremendous textural variety, and never wore thin.

Foie gras offers the same balance of sweet and sour flavors, the same textural variety.

Two a cappella Ives settings offer a measure of historical perspective and textural variety.

But for all the technique and textural variety of the set, it grew thin and jokey.

And without a piano, one will be able to hear all the textural variety that the soft-toned saxophonist likes to use.

BBC insiders call this a lack of "vocal textural variety".