According to musicologist Çinuçen Tanrıkorur today's oud was derived from the kopuz by Turks near Central Asia and additional strings were added by them.

According to musicologist John Tyrrell, Smetana's close identification with Czech nationalism, and the tragic circumstances of his last years, have tended to affect the objectivity with which his work has been assessed, particularly in his native land.

According to the musicologist Donald Burrows, much of the text is so allusive as to be largely incomprehensible to those ignorant of the biblical accounts.

According to musicologist Bret D. Woods in his Master Thesis about industrial music,

According to musicologist George Pullen Jackson, Davisson's compilations are " pioneer repositories of a sort of song that the rural South really liked.

According to the musicologist Carlos Vega ( Vega 1944 ), the Chacarera belongs to a family of Ibero-American dances derived from baroque Contradance choreography.

According to musicologist Roger Harris, " taken all together, the tamperings of the 1921 version amount to a considerable vandalization of Sullivan's original score, and it is a matter for regret that this version should have been presented to successive generations as the genuine article.

According to musicologist Arturo Sacchetti's estimate, Perosi composed 3, 000-4, 000 works.

According to musicologist Hans Nathan, " Dixie " resembles other material that Dan Emmett wrote for Bryant's Minstrels, and, in writing it, the composer drew on a number of earlier works.

According to Laurence Rees, " Curt von Gottberg, the SS-Obergruppenfuhrer who, during 1943, conducted another huge anti-partisan action called Operation Kottbus on the eastern border of Belorussia, reported that ' approximately two to three thousand local people were blown up in the clearing of the minefields '.

According to Curt Herzstark, the last Curta was produced in 1972.

According to the Delaware County Daily Times, Sestak proved to be a capable fundraiser and raised more money than U. S. Rep. Curt Weldon.

According to Jannetty it was Curt Hennig who brought him back to the WWF, who was on good terms with Vince McMahon and convinced him that the bad performance at the Royal Rumble was indeed Shawn Michaels ´ fault.

According to then-Congressman Curt Weldon in his book Countdown to Terror, in 2003, Klink offered Weldon the identity of an intelligence source with information on Iraqi uranium purchases.

According to reports published in the New Orleans Times Picayune and the Jackson Clarion Ledger, Parker and four friends, Norman Malachy, David Alfred, Curt Underwood and Tommy Grant were returning to Lumberton from Poplarville.

According to pages 222-223 of Curt Smith's biography on Mel Allen entitled The Voice: Mel Allen's Untold Story, when NBC lost the rights to the Game of the Week to CBS ( who unlike NBC, didn't broadcast regular season games for all 26 weeks of the season ) after the season, TWIB, sans a strong anchor, proceeded to either lose markets or move to weaker ( often independent ) stations.

According to a forecast in December 2005 by Goldman Sachs, Vietnamese economy will become the 35th largest economy in the world with nominal GDP of $ 436 billion and nominal GDP per capita of 4, 357 USD by 2025.

According to a study by Goldman Sachs, a unified Korea could have an economy larger than that of Japan by 2050.

According to Goldman Sachs, Iran has the strong possibility of becoming one of the world's largest economies in the 21st century.

According to the International Monetary Fund, Bangladesh ranked as the 43rd largest economy in the world in 2010 in PPP terms and 57th largest in nominal terms, among the Next Eleven or N-11 of Goldman Sachs and D-8 economies, with a gross domestic product of US $ 269. 3 billion in PPP terms and US $ 104. 9 billion in nominal terms.

According to some economists such as Jeffrey Sachs, however, the current divide between the developed and developing world is largely a phenomenon of the 20th century.

According to a 2011 ranking called the PEI 300 based on capital raised over the last five years, Carlyle was ranked as the third largest private equity firm in the world, after TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area.

According to Harvey Sachs, Mortimer Frank, and B. H. Haggin, this criticism can be traced to the lack of focus on Toscanini as a conductor rather than his legacy.

" According to Sachs, with the right policies and key interventions, extreme poverty — defined as living on less than $ 1 a day — can be eradicated within 20 years.

According to Hannibal Travis, the " former manager of $ 5 billion in Mexican investments at Goldman Sachs became U. S.

According to the article, Goldman Sachs had contacted a number of potential buyers on behalf of Stanley Black & Decker.

According to his firm ’ s website, Smith has litigated matters involving major international companies such as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Deloitte & Touche, Wachovia, A. I. G., Adelphia Communications Corp, Talk Miramax, FoxMeyer Drug Company, Adelphia founder John Rigas, Continental Grain Company, Unilever, Salomon Smith Barney, and the U. S. Trust Company.

According to Bloomberg News, Sperling earned $ 887, 727 from Goldman Sachs in 2008 for advice on its charitable giving and $ 158, 000 for speeches mostly to financial companies.

According to professor Jeffrey Sachs, the reason for the convergence not occurring everywhere is that some developing countries have a closed economic policy, and free trade and openness would solve the problem.

According to a back-of-the-envelope calculation by Goldman Sachs, a comparison of median home prices to median household income suggests that U. S. housing in 2005 is overvalued by 10 %.

According to Livy, his first act as king was to order the Pontifex Maximus to copy the text concerning the performance of public ceremonies of religion from the commentaries of Numa Pompilius to be displayed to the public, so that the rites of religion should no longer be neglected or improperly performed.

According to various sources, Chiang's first personal act of violence occurred around this time, when he either instigated or performed the assassination of a dissident member of the Revolutionary Alliance who opposed both Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei.

According to Linehan, Father Ted was a character created by Mathews for Paul Woodfull, when the three men performed together as The Joshua Trio on the comedy circuit in Ireland.

According to several witnesses of Brahms's meeting with Liszt ( at which Liszt performed Brahms's Scherzo, Op.

According to Wojciech Wrzesiński ( 1963 ), the Polish organisations in Masuria had decided to lower their activity in order to escape acts of terror performed against Polish minority activists and organisations by Nazi activists.

According to an Environmental Working Group analysis of USDA and FDA pesticide residue tests performed from 2000 through 2008, 84 % of the 2, 216 tested potato samples contained detectable traces of at least one pesticide.

According to McGarvey Paul performed the operation " with his own hand ", but others claim this is unlikely and nowhere attested.

According to an NME interview, this may have been one of the last times he performed as Fatboy Slim, as he may now focus on his new album, The Brighton Port Authority ( BPA ).

According to the theory, wave functions interact with each other and evolve in time in accordance with the laws of quantum mechanics until a measurement is performed, at which point the system takes on one of its possible values, with a probability that's governed by the wave-function.

According to the title page of A Shrew, the play had been performed recently by Pembroke's Men.

According to the script, the play is to be performed with little scenery, no set and minimal props.

According to this definition, third-party logistics includes any form of outsourcing of logistics activities previously performed in-house.

According to Livy, after the overthrow of the monarchy, the Romans created the priesthood of the rex sacrorum, or " king of sacred rites ," to carry out certain religious duties and rituals previously performed by the king.

According to Christian tradition, Jesus performed several miracles in the Tiberias district, making it an important pilgrimage site for Christians.

According to BMI, his song " By the Time I Get to Phoenix " was the third most performed song in the fifty years between 1940 and 1990.

According to the investigation performed later, he strangled her, picked her up and pushed her off the balcony, after which he followed her in the fall, injuring a shoulder.

According to a study performed by Lisa Schweitzer, “ transport spills toxic waste transporters, such as trucks generally cluster near origins more than destinations.

According to the Hebrew Bible, tzedakah is a religious obligation that must be performed regardless of financial standing.

According to this book, Martin received help with his singing career from members of the Chicago Outfit, who owned saloons in the city, and later performed in shows hosted by these bosses when he was a star.

According to the law, the average of the results obtained from a large number of trials should be close to the expected value, and will tend to become closer as more trials are performed.

According to Elvis Costello, who also performed at the Masters Tribute Concert, described Burke's performance as " flawless ": " Aretha was really wailing and Solomon had tears rolling down his cheeks, declaiming, " Bring the boys home " like a preacher, reworking the song as a plea for sanity during the never-ending war.

According to Melchiori ( pgs 46 – 51 ), the first contemporary performance of the play was on 6 March 1911, when the Elizabethan Stage Society performed Act 2 at the Little Theatre in London.

According to Charles B. Fowler, the automata were a " robot band " which performed " more than fifty facial and body actions during each musical selection.

According to the fourteenth-century chronicler, John of Fordun, Malcolm III, King of Scotland ( reign 1058 – 93 ) married his second bride, the Anglo-Hungarian princess, Saint Margaret, at the church in Dunfermline between 1068 and 1070 ; the ceremony was performed by Forhad, the last Celtic bishop of St Andrews.