Bliss ’ s system was explained in his work Semantography ( 1949, 2nd ed.

Bliss stated that his own work was an attempt to take up the thread of Leibniz ’ s project.

Bliss was born in New York in 1870 and in 1891 began work in the library of the College of the City of New York ( now City College of the City University of New York ).

Her most notable work was at the Dumbarton Oaks estate in the Georgetown district of Washington, D. C. for Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss ( 1922 – 1940 ).

In the Second World War, Bliss returned to England from the US to work for the BBC and became its director of music.

Although he had begun composing while still a schoolboy, Bliss later suppressed all his juvenilia, and, with the single exception of his 1916 Pastoral for clarinet and piano, reckoned the 1918 work Madam Noy as his first official composition.

The Times wrote that " Bliss was acquiring a reputation as a tearaway " by the time he was commissioned, through Elgar's influence, to write a large-scale symphonic work ( A Colour Symphony ) for the Three Choirs Festival of 1922.

The work was well received ; in The Manchester Guardian, Samuel Langford called Bliss " far and away the cleverest writer among the English composers of our time "; The Times praised it highly ( though doubting if much was gained by the designation of the four movements as purple, red, blue and green ) and commented that the symphony confirmed Bliss's transition from youthful experimenter to serious composer.

At first, Bliss found little useful work to do in England.

The orchestral Meditations on a Theme by John Blow ( 1955 ) was a particularly deep-felt work, and Bliss regarded it highly among his output.

" Bliss contrasted the pastoral tone of that work with Rout ( 1920 ) an uproarious piece for soprano and instrumental ensemble ; " the music conveys an impression such as one might gather at an open window at carnival time … the singer is given a series of meaningless syllables chosen for their phonetic effect ".

In his next work, Conversations for violin, viola, cello, flute and oboe ( 1921 ), Bliss chose a deliberately prosaic subject.

When its dedicatee, Rostropovich gave the first performance, at the 1970 Aldeburgh Festival, Britten, who conducted the performance, regarded it as a major work, and persuaded Bliss to change its title from " Concertino " to Concerto.

A group of poets now known as the " Confederation Poets ", including Charles G. D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and William Wilfred Campbell, came to prominence in the 1880s and 1890s, Choosing the world of nature as their inspiration, their work was drawn from their own experiences and, at its best, written in their own tones.

In 2009 Bliss Corporation began to promote work from older bands by subtitling music videos and releasing " unseen " video footage from Eiffel 65.

The Destiny of The Mother Church ( 1991, ISBN 0-87510-231-X ) is the primary and theologically disputed work of Bliss Knapp, the son of Ira O. and Flavia S. Knapp, trusted students of Mary Baker Eddy.

In 2003, Manara's work featured on the cover of Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro's second studio album " The Vertigo of Bliss ".

Sidney Bliss, a local pub owner and former hangman who occasionally does Alan's dirty work, also refuses to help due to his claustrophobia, and Alan is left to dispose of the waste himself.

He collaborated with Philip Bliss and then later with James McGranahan and George Stebbins ) on a series of " sacred song " collections published in the United States by Biglow & Main ( a company of which he was president from 1895 to 1908 ), and in the United Kingdom by Morgan & Scott, publishers also of his most enduring work, the popular Sacred Songs and Solos ( widely known as " Sankey & Moody ") which eventually ran to over 1200 works and is still in use today.

White found work modeling, and her first professional acting job was at the Bliss Hayden Little Theatre.

At Mildred Bliss ’ s request, the Concerto in E-flat was subtitled “ Dumbarton Oaks 8-v-1938 ,” and the work is now generally known as The Dumbarton Oaks Concerto.

Carty's radio work includes such dramas as Les Misérables ; The Three Loves of Ida Bliss, We Are Happy, Wavelength, Midweek, Jellybones, The London Particulars, and The Chocolate Frigate.

* 2003, won a Golden Sheaf Award for her work in an episode of Bliss

He had plenty of work to do.

The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

At the outset of his career, Steinberg had dedicated himself to the advancement of contemporary music by vowing to do a Schonberg work every year.

Washington never had a chance to work for an extended stretch at the occupation he loved best, plantation management.

My wish to meet Samuel Beckett had been prompted by simple curiosity and interest in his work.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

Amid a shortage of profitable work, the memory of Albert Johnson's $20,000 stood out in lonely grandeur -- the money had quickly melted away.

After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.

Never well known, but he had done his work competently.

Hanoverian agents assisted in promoting circulation, said to have reached 40,000, and if one may judge by the reaction of Swift and other government writers, the work must have had considerable impact.

The work had its beginning in 1938 with an eight-bar musical strain to which Koehler set the words `` There'll be no more work ; ;

But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.

After all, Pike was an established poet and his work had been published in the respectable periodicals of that center of American culture, Boston.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

Small wonder that Milton later boasted of how well his work had been received there, since he attained a rank in the order of commencing bachelors higher than that of any other inceptor from Christ's of that year.

One day, Ching had told him ( smiling, patting him on the back ) as they walked to the weekly conference of squad leaders, `` Keep it up, your squad is good, one of the best, keep it up, keep up the good work ''.

Rousseau had to admit that though he couldn't agree to a public performance, he would indeed, just for his own private satisfaction, dearly love to know how his work would sound when done by professional musicians and by trained voices.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

His arm had been giving him some trouble and Rector was not enough of a medical expert to determine whether it had healed improperly or whether Hino was simply rebelling against the tedious work in the print shop, using the stiffness in his arm as an excuse.