By 1906, he was studying music full-time ; by 1907, he began composition lessons.

This splitting of the book ’ s composition began to be challenged in the mid-twentieth century, with scholars defending the unity of the book, the plausibility of the prophet combining a contemporary and apocalyptic outlook, and later additions by the prophet.

It was during this decade that public taste began, increasingly, to recognize that Haydn and Mozart had reached a higher standard of composition.

The group began composing and performing their own songs during this time including a Brown composition called " Goin ' Back to Rome " and a ballad Brown co-wrote with Terry titled " Please, Please, Please ".

In 1956, Bearden began studying with a Chinese calligrapher, whom he credits with introducing him to new ideas about space and composition in painting.

At the end of his schooldays, Adorno not only benefited from the rich concert offerings of Frankfurt-in which one could hear performances of works by Schoenberg, Schreker, Stravinsky, Bartók, Busoni, Delius and Hindemith-but also began studying music composition at the Hoch Conservatory while taking private lessons with well-respected composers Bernhard Sekles and Eduard Jung.

Before his emigration in autumn 1934, Adorno began work on a Singspiel based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer entitled The Treasure of Indian Joe, which he would, however, never complete ; by the time he fled Hitler's Germany Adorno had already written over a hundred opera or concert reviews and an additional fifty critiques of music composition.

The next eruptive period, the Castle Creek period, began about 400 BCE, and is characterized by a change in composition of St. Helens ' lava, with the addition of olivine and basalt.

Stravinsky began piano lessons as a young boy, studying music theory and attempting composition.

While the earliest extant sketches date from December 1856, it was not until August 1857, however, that Wagner began devoting his attention entirely to the opera, putting aside the composition of Siegfried to do so.

It was during the absence of the two women that Wagner began the composition sketch of the second Act of Tristan.

He began composition in January 1921.

After collecting material from literary sources, Borodin began composition in September 1869 with initial versions of Yaroslavna's arioso and Konchakovna's cavatina, and sketched the Polovtsian Dances and March of the Polovtsy.

Sousa began his career playing violin and studying music theory and composition under John Esputa and George Felix Benkert.

Whether Thackeray intended this shift in tone when he began writing, or whether it developed over the course of the work's composition, is a question that cannot be settled.

Bruckner began composition of his Symphony No. 8 in C minor in 1884.

At age six, Maurice began piano lessons with Henry Ghys and received his first instruction in harmony, counterpoint, and composition with Charles-René.

Working with Colonel Sidman Poole of U. S. Army Intelligence, the researchers of the Military Geological Unit began microscopic and chemical examination of the sand from the sandbags to determine types and distribution of diatoms and other microscopic sea creatures, and its mineral composition.

He began composition at school, writing piano pieces, organ voluntaries, songs, anthems and a Symphony in C minor ( from 1892 ).

In 1826 he began attending the Conservatoire to study composition under Jean-François Le Sueur and Anton Reicha.

He began and finished composition of the Symphonie fantastique in 1830, a work which would bring Berlioz much fame and notoriety.

The following year he began but later abandoned the composition of a new opera, La nonne sanglante ; some fragments survive.

He began composition of his Te Deum.

In 1926, Waller began his recording association with Victor Records, his principal record company for the rest of his life, with the organ solos " St. Louis Blues " and his own composition, " Lenox Avenue Blues ".

Schoenberg experienced triskaidekaphobia ( the fear of the number 13 ), which possibly began in 1908 with the composition of the thirteenth song of the song cycle Das Buch der Hängenden Gärten Op.

While Davis ' explorations of modal jazz were sporadic throughout the 1960s — he would include several of the tunes from Kind of Blue in the repertoire of his " Second Great Quintet "— Coltrane would take the lead in extensively exploring the limits of modal improvisation and composition with his own classic quartet, featuring Elvin Jones ( drums ), McCoy Tyner ( piano ), and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison ( bass ).

Itten's works exploring the use and composition of color resemble the square op art canvases of artists such as Josef Albers, Max Bill and Bridget Riley, and the expressionist works of Wassily Kandinsky.

* COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC podcast, exploring generative approaches ( including algorithmic, systems-based, formalized and procedural ) to composition and performance primarily in the context of experimental technologies and music practices of the latter part of the twentieth century.

Gems and minerals is an exhibit exploring crystal structure and chemical composition of the mineral heritage of Western New York, New York State, and Ontario.

* Arden, Jeremy, " Focussing the musical imagination: exploring in composition the ideas and techniques of Joseph Schillinger ", Ph. D. thesis 1996, City University, London.

“ Versuche ” ( 4 works ) concerns the serial technique of composition, exploring space by putting large gaps between performers.

One of the best ways of exploring how polar jets are produced is to determine the composition of the jets at a radius where they can be directly observed.

The label has since expanded its vision, currently serving the needs of a community of West Coast creative musicians who are committed to exploring the worlds of improvisation, composition, artistic vision and instrumental technique.

Over the last four decades, Shaw produced a prolific body, exploring a variety of different mediums and techniques and challenging the fundamental concepts of balance, composition, gravity, compression and expansion.

Then, advised by the Architect of the Capitol, the Joint Committee for the Library, traditionally responsible for the works of art in the building, ordered the space cleared and painted in fresco, to show `` the Peace after the Civil War '', `` the Spanish-American War '', and `` the Birth of Aviation '', to match as nearly as feasible Brumidi's technique and composition.

" Rules of composition " that might be read into Duchamp's Fountain or John Cage's 4 ′ 33 ″ do not locate the works in a recognizable style ( or certainly not a style recognizable at the time of the works ' realisation ).

As his teaching and work with the imperial chapel continued, his duties required the composition of a large number of sacred works, and in his last years it was almost exclusively in religious works and teaching that Salieri occupied himself.

This definition was proposed by Justus von Liebig circa 1838, based on his extensive works on the chemical composition of organic acids.

Both of these are important in regards to the uncertainty surrounding the Beowulf manuscript, as the works which it draws from or influences suggest time-frames of composition, geographic boundaries from which it could be composed, or range ( both spatial and temporal ) of influence ( i. e. when it was " popular " and where its " popularity " took it ).

The exact date of composition for both of these works is unknown.

Although these works were not actually composed with a computer in the modern sense, it uses a rudimentary form of the random combinatorial techniques sometimes used in computer-generated composition.

However, Schmidt left this composition unfinished, and in the summer and autumn of 1938, a few months before his death, set it aside to devote himself to two other commissioned works for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein, for whom he had often composed: the Clarinet Quintet in A major and the solo Toccata in D minor.

He immediately published several works, most importantly the Nouveaux quatuors, which were revised and expanded versions of the early composition stolen from him.

Western icons, which are not usually so termed, were largely patterned on Byzantine works, and equally conventional in composition and depiction.

Albéniz's first published composition, Marcha Militar, appeared in 1868-a number of works written before this are now lost.

Rousseau's break with the Encyclopedistes coincided with the composition of his three major works, in all of which he emphasized his fervent belief in a spiritual origin of man's soul and the universe, in contradistinction to the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, and d ' Holbach.

The academic realism apparent in the works of the mid-1890s is well displayed in The First Communion ( 1896 ), a large composition that depicts his sister, Lola.

A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any other form of expression, especially parts of artistic works: elements of a painting, scenes from a movie or sections from a musical composition.

He was inspired by hearing his mother practising the piano in the evenings – mostly works by Chopin and Beethoven – and composed his first piano composition at the age of five, an ' Indian Gallop ', which was written down by his mother: this was in the Lydian mode ( a major scale with a raised 4th scale degree ) as the young Prokofiev felt ' reluctance to tackle the black notes '.

Among the works exhibited were Le Fauconnier's vast composition Les Montagnards attaqués par des ours ( Mountaineers Attacked by Bears ) now at Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Joseph Csaky's Deux Femme, Two Women ( a sculpture now lost ), in addition to the highly abstract paintings by Kupka, Amorpha ( The National Gallery, Prague ), and Picabia, La Source, The Spring ( Museum of Modern Art, New York ).

Yet the evolution of harmonic practice and language itself, in Western art music, is and was facilitated by this process of prior composition ( which permitted the study and analysis by theorists and composers alike of individual pre-constructed works in which pitches ( and to some extent rhythms ) remained unchanged regardless of the nature of the performance ).

Arranging is composition which employs prior material so as to comment upon it such as in mash-ups and various contemporary classical works.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

Though dates of composition vary, these works were fixed around 800 BC or after.

By the time he was a teenager, Orff was writing songs, although he had not studied harmony or composition ; his mother helped him set down his first works in musical notation.

The term was used mostly for poetry only and in more careful works, like the vidas, is not generally applied to the composition of music or to singing, though the troubadour's poetry itself is not so careful.