Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

The arrangement with Argiento was working well, except that sometimes Michelangelo could not figure who was master and who apprentice.

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

Yet no detail was too small to receive attention from this master, and as a result the playing here has humor, delicacy, and radiant humanity.

The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.

Man, through democratic institutions of government and economic freedom, was master of his destiny.

When we examine what each master says was his first collage we see that much the same thing happens in each.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

it was partly his master.

As the Zen literature reveals, as soon as an early Zen master attained fame in seclusion, he was called out into the world to exercise his powers.

Lincoln was a master politician, bringing together — and holding together — all the main factions of the Republican Party, and bringing in War Democrats such as Edwin M. Stanton and Andrew Johnson as well.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

One important piece of advice Yamamoto gave Kurosawa was that a good director needed to master screenwriting.

Henry Ford was the first to master the moving assembly line and was able to improve other aspects of industry by doing so ( such as reducing labor hours required to produce a single vehicle, and increased production numbers and parts ).

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

In his study of Greek literature his master was Emmanuel Chrysoloras.

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.

While Dampier was captain of the St. George, Selkirk served on the galley Cinque Ports, the St. Georges companion, as a sailing master serving under Thomas Stradling.

This master returned to Venice, where he soon afterwards died ; but by the high terms in which he spoke of his pupil to Falier, the latter was induced to bring the young artist to Venice, whither he accordingly went, and was placed under a nephew of Torretto.

Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall ; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.

Also, it should be noted that the polytonal freedom of his melodies and harmonic modulations, the brilliant orchestrations, the adroitness for evading the heaviness of figured bass, the skill in florid counterpoint were not lost in his mature output, even in the spectacular historical dramas of the stage and cinema, where a large, dramatic canvas of sound was required.

There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch ( the brother of his former teacher ), organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S.

His musical theory training in harmony and counterpoint was rooted in Johann Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum, which Salieri translated during each Latin lesson.

The following year he was admitted to the counterpoint class of Padre Stanislao Mattei ( 1750 – 1825 ).

His compositional style derives from Johann Joseph Fux's counterpoint, who was Kapellmeister at St. Stephen's Cathedral 1713-1741, a position that Albrechtsberger would hold 52 years later.

rather than set up small engines of motivic materials and let them run free in a kind of random play of counterpoint, I used the fabric of continually repeating cells to forge large architectonic shapes, creating a web of activity that, even within the course of a single movement, was more detailed, more varied, and knew both light and dark, serenity and turbulence.

An unusual multi-sided tower, the Oriel, provides a counterpoint to the main doorway of the hall and was intended for private entertainment by Gaunt away from the main festivities on major occasions.

" As an ironic counterpoint to this, a picture was displayed behind Chase, showing Franco giving the fascist salute alongside Adolf Hitler.

He received detailed training in the arts of fugue and counterpoint, and it was here that he launched his operatic career.

From about 1600 to 1750, the Baroque period was an era of music encompassed by counterpoint and basso continuo characteristics.

McCarthy cited the production and costume design as pluses, and said the soundtrack was good at creating " ironic counterpoint " to the story.

During his time with Boulanger he studied classical composition including counterpoint which was to play a key role in his later tango compositions.

Piazzolla's nuevo tango was distinct from the traditional tango in its incorporation of elements of jazz, its use of extended harmonies and dissonance, its use of counterpoint, and its ventures into extended compositional forms.

Novello was educated privately in Cardiff and then in Gloucester, where he studied harmony and counterpoint with Herbert Brewer, the cathedral organist.

He was rigorous and demanding in teaching counterpoint and fugue, as he revered Johann Sebastian Bach without reservation.

A few years later, probably at 11 or 12, he was given counterpoint lessons by Gaetano Carpani.

He took only counterpoint lessons with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky, who was to become his first brother-in-law ( Beaumont 2000, 87 ).

Before this time it was usual to write a melodic cantus or superius against a tenor ( from Latin tenere, to hold ) or ' held ' part, to which might be added a contratenor, which was in counterpoint with ( in other words, against = contra ) the tenor.

His style incorporates his knowledge of early counterpoint but also the style of late Viennese romantics including Gustav Mahler, to whom he was introduced by Adler.

He was chosen by Channel 4 to deliver the first " Alternative Christmas Speech ", a counterpoint to the Queen's Christmas speech, in 1993.

A year later, Aucoin would launch The New Nakeds ( later renamed The Nakeds ), a groundbreaking line that was a strong counterpoint to cosmetics available at the time.

Parliament, now augmented by the Horny Horns ( also recruited from James Brown's band ) was positioned as a smoother R & B-based funk ensemble with intricate horn and vocal arrangements, and as a counterpoint to the guitar-based funk-rock of Funkadelic.

During the Renaissance, a composer's ability to juxtapose several pre-existing melodies, such as in the cantus firmus quodlibet, was considered the ultimate mastery of counterpoint.