Among these sacred works there survives a Mass in C major written without a " Gloria " and in the antique a cappella style ( presumably for one of the church's penitential seasons ) and dated 2 August 1767.

Among the earliest Kurdish religious texts is the Yazidi Black Book, the sacred book of Yazidi faith.

Among the Hebrews, the act of anointing with the Holy anointing oil was significant in consecration to a holy or sacred use: hence the anointing of the high priest (; ) and of the sacred vessels ().

Among the Egyptians several kinds of apes were regarded as sacred animals, but the most revered of all was that which was the companion of Thoth, and which is commonly known as the Dog-headed Ape.

Among the listed alphabets, Bassa Vah is compared to include Armenian, Coptic ( used by Egyptian Coptics and Coptic Church ), Avestan used in Ancient Persia to write sacred hymns of Zoroastrianism, Georgian language in Republic of Georgia, Mongolian, Meroitic alphabet of ancient Sudan and parts of Nile Valley, and many other ancient scripts, Greek-based and Cyrillic alphabets.

Among the ancient Greeks, the quince was a ritual offering at weddings, for it had come from the Levant with Aphrodite and remained sacred to her.

Among his works are three books of madrigals, a book of ricercars, but only two sacred compositions — a curious omission for a composer so closely connected with the church.

Among these populations were the Jews, who, as they had no images, took with them the sacred vessels of the temple.

Among other sacred objects in the temple was the Palladium, a statue of Pallas Athena ) supposedly brought by Aeneas from Troy.

Among the best of his sacred subjects are a St Sebastian and an Assumption of the Virgin, both in the church of San Sebastiano fuori le Mura in Rome.

Among Cavalieri's secular compositions were madrigals, monodies, and pieces he wrote for intermedi ; his sacred compositions included a setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo.

Among the sacred groves associated with such jinjas or Shinto shrines is the 20-hectare wooded area associated with at Atsuta-ku, Nagoya.

Among the Harranians dogs were sacred, but this was rather as brothers of the mystae.

Among the Mizrahim ( Arabic-speaking Jews living in the Middle-East ) it was quite common to replace their Hebrew names with relevant Arabic ones, whenever they bore a religious note and were deemed sacred to both Jews and Moslems, so Abraham turned into Ibrahim, Aharon into Haroun, David into Daoud, Moshe into Moussa, and Shlomo into Soliman and Salman.

Among English texts, Felix's Life of Saint Guthlac relates that in order to give relief to a boy afflicted by madness, he " washed him in the water of the sacred font and, breathing into his face the breath of healing ' spirit of salvation ', drove away from him all the power of the evil spirit ,"< ref > Bertram Colgrave, ed.

Among his copious works are many masses, including a Requiem mass ; psalm settings, lamentations, vespers, antiphons, sacrae cantiones, and numerous other sacred works.

Among them were Anglesey ( Môn ), located on the Northern Welsh Coast, which was the sacred island of the druids of Britain ; the Scilly islands, where archaeological remains of proto-historical temples have been found ; and some of the Hebrides Islands, which were, in the Gaelic tradition, home of ghosts and demons: on one of them, Skye, the Irish hero Cúchulainn was educated by the war goddess Scathach.

Among its sacred objects is a wooden blessing cross featuring silver filigree work and twenty-four red gems ; this is from the end of the 19th century and appears to be the work of an anonymous artist from the Russian school.

Among the temples Aurangzeb destroyed were two that are most sacred to Hindus, in Varanasi and Mathura.

Among his duties was the ritual brandishing of the sacred spears of Mars when the Roman army was preparing for war.

Among the " sacred and fundamental laws " he proposed was " Nothing in society will belong to anyone, either as a personal possession or as capital goods, except the things for which the person has immediate use, for either his needs, his pleasures, or his daily work.

Among noted nineteenth-century Theatines was the Sicilian Father Gioacchino Ventura dei baroni di Raulica, a philosopher, littérateur, and great sacred orator.

Among the Tallensi tribe there is a belief in the sacred crocodile.

Among Canova's heroic compositions, his Perseus with the Head of Medusa ( photo, right ) appeared soon after his return from Germany.

Among his compositions written for the chapels needs were two complete sets of vespers, many graduals, offertories, and four orchestral masses.

Among the musical compositions of Allegri were two volumes of concerti for five voices, published in 1618 and 1619 ; two volumes of motets for six voices, published in 1621 ; an edition of four-part sinfonia ; five masses, two settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, as well as numerous motets which were not published in his lifetime.

Among the compositions that were issued on the Pleyela piano rolls are The Rite of Spring, Petrushka, The Firebird and Song of the Nightingale.

Among his most unusual and evocative compositions is the choral Abendzauber ( 1878 ) for tenor, yodelers and four alpine horns.

Among his compositions during his time in Madrid were a number of the 555 keyboard sonatas for which he is best known.

Among Clementi's compositions the most remarkable are sixty sonatas for pianoforte, and the great collection of Etudes called Gradus ad Parnassum.

Among the significant compositions of modal jazz were " So What " by Miles Davis and " Impressions " by John Coltrane.

Among his own compositions was " Shout, Sister, Shout " ( 1929 ), which was recorded by him, and also covered by the Boswell Sisters, in 1931.

Among his compositions are:

Among these mills, the three-roll mill is preferred since all paste compositions are experienced the shear force when they go through the gap.

Among his most important works are Metastaseis ( 1953 – 4 ) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra ; percussion works such as Psappha ( 1975 ) and Pléïades ( 1979 ); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh ( 1966 ); electronic works created using Xenakis's UPIC system ; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes.

Among his original compositions are " Shreveport Farewell ", " Farrish Street Jive ", and " Vicksburg Blues ".

Among his other liturgical compositions are hymns, canticles ( including over 100 Magnificats ), responsories for Holy Week, Passions, Lamentations, and some independent pieces for major feasts.

Among the Mighty Five's most notable compositions were the operas The Snow Maiden ( Snegurochka ), Sadko, Boris Godunov, Prince Igor, Khovanshchina, and symphonic suite Scheherazade.

Among American poets, Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens are notable for using blank verse in extended compositions at a time when many other poets were turning to free verse.

Among the best-known of those compositions are the following:

Among his compositions are various works for the violin ( including three concerti ) and overtures to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Henry IV.

Among the original compositions from the band's book are " Django " by Lewis ( a tribute to the Belgian jazz guitar player Django Reinhardt ), " Afternoon In Paris ," also by Lewis, and Jackson's " Bags ' Groove ", the latter borrowing its composer's nickname.

Among the Greeks, Aristotle, Homer, and Plato were now being read in the original for the first time since the 4th century, though Greek compositions were few.

Among his most recent compositions, the most interesting are the two sets of Nanosonatas ( 2007 ) and the Cadenza con o senza Beethoven ( 2003 ), written for Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto.

Among other instrumental compositions by Galuppi, Grove's Dictionary lists sinfonias, overtures, trios and string quartets, and concerti for solo instruments and strings.

Among Salonen's compositions are ... auf den ersten blick und ohne zu wissen ... ( 1980, a saxophone concerto with a title taken from Franz Kafka's The Trial ), Floof for soprano and ensemble ( 1982, on texts by Stanisław Lem ) and the orchestral L. A. Variations ( 1996 ).

Among his compositions are four piano concertos, Through Streets Broad and Narrow for piano and chamber orchestra, a concerto for harp dedicated to the Irish harpist Andreja Maliř, a symphony, much chamber music including seven piano trios and over 250 songs.