These highly original transitional passages punctuate the work and give a coherence to the whole movement.

What follows is a transitional passage where the two contrasting motifs are expanded and developed.

Her brother raised his finger: it was the transitional passage on the drum.

What they did was ask veterans of the program to recall their experiences; then they arranged the material chronologically and wrote a few transitional passages.

A transitional passage leads to a more lyrical but still agitated theme in C minor.

It was a little bit like the connection between two railway cars, a short transitional passage.

But he does so only after the undulating transitional passage, marked "dolce" (sweet), is over.

Following the second movement, there is a brief fourteen-bar transitional passage in E minor for solo violin and strings only.

Except for some awkwardly abrupt transitional passages, it was a promising debut.

Ms. Hodson has had to invent a few transitional passages.