1.   According to a program note, every bit of the spoken text is based on notebook entries.

2.   Composers, aware of the powerful specificity of language, worry that spoken texts will shake concert audiences from the nonliteral mind-set that is ideally conducive to listening.

3.   Her muted jazz score with its modal harmonies is essentially background music to spoken texts.

4.   It is very hard to dance to a spoken text.

5.   Spoken text in dance is sometimes difficult to follow.

6.   The plot was acted out in American Sign Language by a large cast of deaf actors and in spoken text by four hearing actors.