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In seven movements for large orchestra ( including quadruple woodwind, a quartet of saxophones, 6 horns, 5 trumpets, harpsichord, two mandolins, two harps, organ, as well as a tenor soloist, a boys ' two-part choir and a double mixed chorus ), and lasting 75 minutes, this work clearly betrays the influence of Mahler. The inspirational origin of the work lay, however, in the simple act of walking along a very rocky and boulder-strewn shore at Loch Kishorn during his stay there in 1964, and observing the dense texture of rocks and vegetation which translated itself into a similar musical texture forming part of the first movement entitled " Vision of Nature ".
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He was settling into the form of his life which would last for the next seven years ; agile and alert, he was frequently seen making amazing reflex saves and possessed flawless positional sense and reading of attackers ' movements and instincts.
The seven hundred Quakers who had been imprisoned under Richard Cromwell were released, though the government remained uncertain about the group's links with other, more violent, movements.
Orbison's " In Dreams " was a song in seven movements that can be represented as Intro-A-B-C-D-E-F ; no sections are repeated.
This is apparent in his Valses nobles et sentimentales – inspired by Franz Schubert's collections, Valses nobles and Valses sentimentales – where the seven movements begin and end without pause, and in his chamber music where many movements are in sonata-allegro form, hiding the change from developmental sections to recapitulation.
Five of the seven movements were played in the order Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter.
It was Boult's decision not to play all seven movements at this concert.
The suite has seven movements, each named after a planet and its corresponding astrological character ( see Planets in astrology ):
A typical performance of all seven movements lasts for about fifty minutes though Holst's own electric recording from 1926 lasted just over forty-two and a half minutes.
There are seven basic movements incorporated in the pole form which are identified by the following keywords:
During the next seven years, Henry Lowrie led a group of free people of color, poor whites and blacks in one of many postwar insurgent movements during years of social disruption.
After spending seven years in exile in Cuba, Algeria and France, Cleaver returned to the US in 1975 to become involved in various alternative Christian movements ( Unification Church, CARP, and Mormonism ), and become a conservative Republican, appearing at Republican events.
It is unique among Bach ’ s cantatas in its sparse orchestration and in the independence and prominence of the chorus, which is featured in four out of seven movements.
It is in seven movements, beginning with a Sinfonia, then alternating choral mpvements and arias.
The Vespers is monumental in scale, and requires a choir large enough and skillful enough to cover up to 10 vocal parts in some movements and split into separate choirs in others while accompanying seven different soloists during the course of the piece.
In his lifetime, Dufay wrote seven complete masses, 28 individual Mass movements, 15 settings of chant used in Mass Propers, three Magnificats, two Benedicamus Domino settings, 15 antiphon settings ( 6 are Marian antiphons ), 27 hymns, 22 motets ( 13 are isorhythmic ) and 87 chansons.
Four of the seven subjects succeeded in performing impossible movements of the phantom limb.
In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.
The first seven " movements " of this work appeared in the Objectivist Anthology, having previously appeared in magazines.
The common repertoire consists of more than two hundred short melodic movements called gusheh, which are classified into seven dastgāh or " modes.
He constructed seven new churches in Paris and supported the development of charismatic movements such as the Emmanuel Community ( of which he was in charge until June 2006 ) and the Chemin Neuf Community, which was recognized in 1984 by the Vatican as an International Association of the Faithful.
131 is in seven movements which are played without any breaks between them.
In the abdominal ganglion has seven central motor neurons been found that also produce movements of the siphon.
It is believed that, in ancient times, the sages communicated the pronunciation only once every seven years ; this system was challenged by more recent movements.
In addition to two movements by Bach, he incorporates seven arias from George Frideric Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 into the work.
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There were seven of them, enough for a show of strength -- to run a bluff.
There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
All seven combined ardent devotion to the cause of revolution with a profound respect for legality.
In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.
I set the hour of our meeting for seven.
thus early forecasting of the pubescent stage would appear possible for only seven boys.
The engineer had more than seven years of experience in the firm, was well trained, was considered a hard worker, was respected by his fellow engineers for his technical competence and was regarded as a `` comer ''.
Another wart removal method was to rub each wart with a bean split open and then to bury the bean halves under the drip of the house for seven days.
The last Congress adopted seven bills for memorials, including one to Taras Shevchenko, the Ukrainian poet laureate ; ;
It's at the far end of the county and the last time I came here was for a hit and run manslaughter -- about seven months ago.
It permits the state to take over bank accounts, stocks and other personal property of persons missing for seven years or more.
After reading his statement discharging the 23d ward case, Karns told Wexler that if the seven cases scheduled for trial also involved persons who had been subpenaed, he would dismiss them.
For that matter, Stan Musial is rare, possessing the disposition that enabled him to put out the same for seven managers, reserving his opinions, but not his effort.
After being closed for seven months, the Garden of the Gods Club will have its gala summer opening Saturday, June 3.
-- Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.
The demands were set forth in letters to seven owners of first-run theaters by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights.
Susan would be visiting her grandmother for only a few days, but even at seven she was a prudent soul ; ;
His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy.
A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed seven subfamilies for the families recognized in the very first APG classification of 1998.
Participants, both men and women, were charged three dollars to attend or five dollars for all seven lectures.
Though his final session in Congress was uneventful, he did reintroduce seven resolutions, which failed, providing for rotation of federal appointees.
There is substantial variation in usage of glyphs for the Eastern Arabic-Indic digits, especially for the digits four, five, six, and seven.
* 25 shares of stock for each of the seven hotel chains
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