Two institutes at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem have collected major oral archives which hold ( among other things ) extensive recordings of Jews chanting the Mishnah using a variety of melodies and many different kinds of pronunciation.

The invention of the compact cassette in the 1960s, followed by Sony's Walkman, gave a major boost to the mass distribution of music recordings, and the invention of digital recording and the compact disc in 1983 brought massive improvements in ruggedness and quality.

He also played a major part in Cher's early solo career with recordings such as " Bang Bang " and " You Better Sit Down Kids ".

Recording and producing as a group was Tork's major interest, and he hoped that the four members would continue working together as a band on future recordings.

There are several recordings of the major works for the solo piano ( including complete recordings of the piano sonatas and the shorter piano pieces, by Garrick Ohlsson, Alexander Paley and others ), and there are recordings of the individual sonatas by Claudio Arrau ( 1st Sonata ), Alfred Brendel ( 2nd Sonata ), Sviatoslav Richter ( 3rd Sonata ) and Leon Fleisher ( 4th Sonata ).

The new generation of independent producers began forming their own record production companies, and in many cases they also established their own recording labels, signing deals that enabled the recordings they produced to be manufactured and distributed by a major record company.

This usually took the form of a lease deal, in which the production company leased the usage rights to the original recording to a major label, who would press, distribute and promote the recording as their own, in return for a percentage of any profit ; the ownership of the master recordings typically reverted to the producer after the deal expired.

In 1944, Strauss celebrated his 80th birthday and conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in recordings of his own major orchestral works, as well as his seldom-heard Schlagobers (" Whipped Cream ") ballet music.

In the United States, the major broadcast networks also engaged in the practice of wiping recordings until the late 1970s.

His major recordings were " There's a Small Hotel ", " Where or When ", " This Year's Kisses ", " When I'm With You ", " Got a Date With an Angel " and " Three Little Fishies ".

* Prestige Records, a major producer of jazz recordings that was established in 1949, had its offices located here from the mid-1960s until its sale in 1972.

" Heartbreak Hotel " is composed of an eight-bar blues progression, and features major echo during the entire track, in an attempt to follow the characteristic of Presley's Sun recordings.

In subsequent recordings, these major modifications to the existing material became a normal procedure for Presley who took over the role of producer, although Sholes was still credited.

Synthpop helped to establish the place of the synthesizer as a major element of pop and rock music, directly influenced subsequent genres including house music and Detroit techno, and has indirectly influenced many other genres and individual recordings.

Today Decca makes fewer major classical recordings, but still has a full roster of stars including, Cecilia Bartoli and Renée Fleming.

New Day Rising, as a result, became one of the last recordings Spot did for the label, and the band soon signed to major label Warner Bros. Records.

The band's sound was vastly different from the songs that showed up later on their major label recordings.

A member of the " Rat Pack ," Martin was a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage / night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television.

Martin remains to this day one of only two performers to be major stars, and hugely successful, in the four major areas of show business: the concert state, recordings, motion pictures and television.

However, the sale of Australia's last major independent label to a multinational engendered some adverse publicity, with Gudinski controversially claiming that he had sold the label as a protest at the federal government's changes to the regulations governing the parallel importation of recordings.

There are at least two symphonies by Loewe-one, in D minor, has been recorded on the Koch Schwann label together with the first of at least two CD recordings of Loewe's second piano concerto ( in A major ), and another, in E minor, was given its first performance in 170 years in November 2004.

( The cpo series of recordings of Loewe's complete ballads includes as well a recording of two piano sonatas and a " tone poem in sonata form ", with one of the sonatas-the E major of 1829-having a vocal part for soprano and baritone.

Four of the metro's major public school systems, representing 54 % of area enrollment, are included in Expansion Management magazine's latest annual education quality ratings of nearly 2, 800 school districts nationwide.

The second Abbasid caliph, Al Mansur ( 754 – 775 ) founded the city of Baghdad to act as a centre of learning, and included in its design a library-translation centre known as Bayt al-Hikma ‘ Storehouse of Wisdom ’, which continued to receive development from his heirs and was to provide a major impetus for Arabic-Persian translations of Hellenistic astrological texts.

Hadrian's new plans included temples to the major regional deities, and certain Roman gods, in particular Jupiter Capitolinus.

Thanks to the big stadium, that " Junior World Series " easily outdrew the major league World Series which, coincidentally, included the team that would move to Baltimore ten years later and take up occupancy in the rebuilt version of the big stadium.

This proposal also included the banning of amphetamines, a first for the major North American sports leagues.

Previous styles have included a series of fictional flags set to music between 1997 and 1999 before the major relaunch, incorporating the new contemporary music composed by David Lowe, and graphics developed by Lambie-Nairn.

The Norte Chico civilization included as many as 30 major population centers in what is now the Norte Chico region of north-central coastal Peru.

The Popular Unity platform included the nationalization of U. S. interests in Chile's major copper mines, the advancement of workers ' rights, deepening of the Chilean land reform, reorganization of the national economy into socialized, mixed, and private sectors, a foreign policy of " international solidarity " and national independence and a new institutional order ( the " people's state " or " poder popular "), including the institution of a unicameral congress.

As of 2012, major equipment items reported by the IISS included ten T-55 tanks ( marked as potentially unserviceable ), 5 AMX-13 light tanks, 34 reconnaissance vehicles, 10 BMP-1 / 2 armoured infantry fighting vehicles, 41 wheeled APCs, and 36 + artillery pieces.

This included a staircase of 8 locks at Béziers, a tunnel and three major aqueducts.

The character Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer, was featured in his own successful spin-off, Frasier, which also ran for 11 seasons and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major, and some minor, Cheers characters.

Besides the history of Augustus ' reign that caused him so much grief, his major works included an Etruscan history and eight volumes on Carthaginian history, as well as an Etruscan Dictionary and a book on dice playing.

This included major editing, including writing out the African-American maid, Mammy Two-Shoes, and replacing her with one of Irish descent.

In the presidential election held April 8, 2005 Ismail Omar Guelleh was re-elected to a second 6-year term at the head of a multi-party coalition that included the FRUD and other major parties.

In the United States, Enlightenment philosophy ( which itself was heavily inspired by deist ideals ) played a major role in creating the principle of religious freedom, expressed in Thomas Jefferson's letters and included in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Kraepelin contrasted this with manic-depressive psychosis, in which he included not just what would be termed bipolar disorder today but also other forms of mood disorder, including major depressive disorder.

Other key members of the development team included Bill Trost, who created the history, lore and major characters of Norrath ( including Everquest protagonist Firiona Vie ), Geoffrey " GZ " Zatkin who implemented the spell system, and artist Milo D. Cooper, who did the original character modeling in the game.

" In North America, music for the instrument is usually written in the bass clef at concert pitch ( that is, without transposition ), though treble clef euphonium parts, transposing down a major ninth, are included in much concert band music.

These included major roles for Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, and C. Thomas Howell.

The Nazis initially attempted to form a corporatist economic system like that of Fascist Italy, creating the National Socialist Institute for Corporatism in May 1933, which included many major economists who argued that corporatism was consistent with National Socialism.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

In 1989, the Garland Publishing Company brought out a 15-volume collection of major works on Berkeley ; Pappas ' paper “ Abstract ideas and the ' esse is percipi ' thesis ” was included in the third volume, as it was considered to be a significant contribution to Berkeley scholarship.

The GIA system included a major innovation: the introduction of 10x magnification as the standard for grading clarity.

His early major works for the voice included The Masque at Kenilworth ( 1864 ); an oratorio, The Prodigal Son ( 1869 ); and a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea ( 1871 ).

Subsequent major European colonial empires included the French, Dutch, and British empires.