Amongst other pioneers, the musical chemists Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson worked on a series of algorithmic composition experiments from 1956-9, manifested in the 1957 premiere of the Illiac Suite for string quartet.

Similarly, the CD / DVD-ROM version of the Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers, and Codie awards in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

IP is the primary protocol in the Internet Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite and has the task of delivering datagrams from the source host to the destination host solely based on the addresses.

The Mozilla Application Suite ( and hence Netscape ) originally supported MNG / JNG, but native support was removed in Mozilla 1. 5a by developers and Mozilla has not supported the format since, despite requests from its users.

: The Klingon Language Suite, language-learning tools from Ultralingua with Simon & Schuster

Hand-written musical notation by Johann Sebastian Bach | J. S. Bach: beginning of the Prelude from the Suite for Lute in G minor BWV 995 ( transcription of Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011 ) BR Bruxelles II.

In the Suite du Merlin, for example, Niviane is about to depart from Arthur's court, but, with some encouragement from Merlin, Arthur asks her to stay in his castle with the queen.

The leader of the Leningrad Military District Andrei Zhdanov commissioned a celebratory piece from Dmitri Shostakovich, entitled " Suite on Finnish Themes " to be performed as the marching bands of the Red Army would be parading through Helsinki.

The series also made extensive use of incidental music, composed by Ed Welch, which often hinted at a particular genre to fit the mood of the scenes, frequently incorporating well-known pieces of music such as " God rest you merry, gentlemen " or Intermezzo from Jean Sibelius ' Karelia Suite.

In addition, classical composers were influenced by the form with, for example, Igor Stravinsky's solo piano work Piano-Rag-Music from 1919, and Claude Debussy's Golliwogg's Cakewalk ( from the 1908 Piano Suite Children's Corner ), and General Lavine ( from his Preludes ).

Prokofiev's first major success breaking out of the composer-pianist mould was with his purely orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes ; Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev – Chout, Le pas d ' acier and The Prodigal Son – which at the time of their original production were all highly successful.

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

Jerome Robbins ' Broadway features " You Gotta Have a Gimmick " from Gypsy, " Suite of Dances " from West Side Story, and " Comedy Tonight " from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Two of these albums contain the soundtracks from the musical episodes " The Bitter Suite " ( Season 3 ) and " Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire " ( Season 5 ).

* 2003 The Charlie Brown Suite & Other Favorites ( previously unreleased material from late 1960s )

* 12 Monkeys, a movie whose soundtrack is derived and excerpted from Piazzolla's Suite Punta del Este

# Suite from " The Leap Home, Part 1 "-Velton Ray Bunch ( 3: 37 )

# Suite from " Lee Harvey Oswald "-Velton Ray Bunch ( 14: 55 )

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

* 1923: Der Geburtstag der Infantin: Suite for large orchestra

52 – Ostrobothnian Suite ( 1923 )

Schoeck was not given to overt signs of gratitude, but he dedicated the song cycle Gaselen ( 1923 ), the Sonata for Bass Clarinet and Piano ( 1927 – 28 ), and the Suite in A flat for Strings ( 1945 ) to Werner Reinhart.

* Suite mignonne ; orchestration ( 1920 – 1923 ) of the piano work Aus dem Kinderleben, Op.

15 ; orchestrated as Suite mignonne ( 1920 – 1923 )

** Suite pour piano ( 1923 )

Written in 1923, the English Folk Song Suite is one of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's most famous works for military band.

He commissioned many works, including Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait, Jerome Kern's Portrait of Mark Twain, William Schuman's New England Triptych, Paul Creston's Frontiers, Ferde Grofé's Hudson River Suite, Virgil Thomson's musical portraits of Fiorello La Guardia and Dorothy Thompson, Alan Hovhaness's Floating World, and Ezra Laderman's Magic Prison.

While the Portuguese ( and, subsequently, other Europeans ) were entering China from its southern coast, by the sea route, the question arose as to whether it happens to be the same country as Cathay which Marco had reached by the overland route.

Before that there had not been any large Frankish catapult in Cathay China, but Talib, a catapult-maker from this land, had gone to Baalbek and Damascus, and his sons Abubakr, Ibrahim, and Muhammad, and his employees made seven large catapults and set out to conquer the city Fu or Hsiang-yang fu = modern Xiangfan.

The Company of Cathay was granted a charter from the crown, giving the company the sole right of sailing in every direction but the east.

In April 2010, a tip-off from Cathay Pacific led to the UK Office of Fair Trading investigating alleged price-fixing between Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific on flights to Hong Kong between 2002 and 2006.

Cathay Pacific will benefit from immunity as long as they continue to cooperate with the authorities.

Iberia has a codeshare agreement with several Oneworld members: Cathay Pacific on flights from Amsterdam and London Heathrow to Hong Kong, Japan Airlines on flights from Amsterdam to Tokyo Narita and Royal Jordanian from Madrid to Amman, and with LAN Airlines for flights connecting Latin America and most of Europe.

In Venice, these books were kept in an abbey whose library henceforth " sparked the Renaissance ", inspired " Leonardo and Michelangelo ", and motivated Marco Polo and his father to journey to the Orient, paying back the library by adding the Great Books from Kublai Khan's Empire of Cathay to it upon Marco's return.

* On May 15, 2010, at just before 11: 00am, a Cathay Pacific Airbus A340 commercial flight from Hong Kong was intercepted by two Canadian CF-18 Hornets in response to a bomb threat.

After an incident of air rage ( apparently over a scone ) on a flight to Australia, Gallagher was banned for life from Cathay Pacific airlines ; Gallagher claimed he would " rather walk ".

On 28 March 1976, clubs from Indonesia, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Japan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Fiji participated in the first Hong Kong Sevens Tournament at the Hong Kong Football Club in Happy Valley sponsored by Rothmans ' Tobacco and Cathay Pacific.

Mr Stephen Miller, Dragonair's first CEO, said: Our arrival on the scene was not hailed very enthusiastically by the then Hong Kong government ... we got a lot of opposition from Cathay ( Pacific ).

In January 1990, Cathay Pacific, Swire Group and CITIC Pacific acquired an 89 percent stake in the airline, with CITIC Pacific holding 38 percent ; while the family of the airline's chairman Kuang-Piu Chao reduced their holding from 22 percent to 6 percent, with the remainder held by minor shareholders.

Dragonair's own loyalty programme, The Elite, that was launched on 12 February 2001, was merged into Cathay Pacific's The Marco Polo Club from 1 January 2007.

On that day at 6: 25 am, Cathay Pacific flight 889 was the first commercial flight to land at the airport, pipping the original CX292 from Rome which was the scheduled first arrival.

It was not immediately clear to the Europeans whether this China is the same country as Cathay known from Marco Polo.

Most importantly, when the Jesuits first arrived to Beijing 1598, they also met a number of " Mohammedans " or " Arabian Turks "-visitors or immigrants from the Muslim countries to the west of China, who told Ricci that now they were living in the Great Cathay.

De Góis died in Suzhou, Gansu-the first Ming China city he reached-while waiting for an entry permit to proceed toward Beijing ; but, in the words of Henry Yule, it was his expedition that made " Cathay ... finally disappear from view, leaving China only in the mouths and minds of men ".

Cathay is finally gone: this 1689 map by Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola from Modena identifies it ( and Mangi ) with China

The last nail into the coffin of the idea of there being a Cathay as a country separate from China was, perhaps, driven in 1654, when the Dutch Orientalist Jacobus Golius met with the China-based Jesuit Martino Martini, who was passing through Leyden.

Even then, some people still viewed Cathay as distinct from China, as did John Milton in the 11th Book of his Paradise Lost ( 1667 ).

Below is the etymological progression from Khitan to Cathay as the word travelled westward:

A person from Cathay ( i. e., a Chinese ) was also written in English as a Cathayan or a Cataian.