They were concept albums, and typically began with an instrumental introduction which faded into the first song, often had an instrumental piece in the middle of the second LP side, and concluded with a quiet, melancholic, or powerful song.

" The Doors incorporated " Asturias " into their song " Spanish Caravan "; also, Iron Maiden's To Tame a Land uses the introduction of the piece for the song bridge ; and more recently, a guitar version of Granada functions as something of a love theme in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Although the spoken introduction to the short piece of music is quite clear, the piano playing is largely inaudible due to heavy surface noise.

The jock would still introduce each selection, but the jock would have available a scripted introduction to use if he was not personally familiar with a particular piece of music and its artist.

" Timesteps " was originally intended as merely an introduction to vocoders for the " timid listener ", but Kubrick chose to include the piece on the soundtrack, much to the surprise of Wendy Carlos.

Nimoy intended the crew's introduction to the streets of San Francisco to be accompanied by something reminiscent of George Gershwin, but Rosenman changed the director's mind, and the scene was scored with a contemporary jazz fusion piece by Yellowjackets.

Judge's piece, Frog Baseball, marked the first appearance of his dimwitted trademark characters Beavis and Butt-head, while McCracken's short The Whoopass Girls in A Sticky Situation featured the introduction of the trio of little girl superheroes that would later gain popularity under their new moniker The Powerpuff Girls.

He chose his themes from folk song collections available at the time he composed the piece, taking Glinka's Kamarinskaya as a model in taking a slow song for the introduction, then for the fast section choosing two songs compatible in structure with the ostinato pattern of the Kamarinskaya dance song.

* The film also included " Since I've Been Loving You ", the introduction to " Heartbreaker ", the instrumental " Bron-Yr-Aur " ( which appeared on Physical Graffiti ) and a hurdy gurdy piece called " Autumn Lake ", none of which were featured on the album.

( The original introduction music was an organ-based piece called " Score ", written by Charles Fox and recorded by Bob's Band.

In 1985, Tandem attempted to grab a piece of the rapidly growing personal computer market with its introduction of the MS-DOS based Dynamite PC / workstation.

In the introduction, he says that the piece can be seen as a kind of exploration of his experiences in Sierra Leone as an operative for MI6 during World War II, drawing from his experiences almost directly for the work ( such as the smuggled Portuguese letter found on a ship, which he did not allow to pass as in the book, but instead radioed up London asking " What was it all for?

While, during the Baroque era, for example, it may have served as an introduction to succeeding movements of a work that were usually longer and more complex, it may also have been a stand alone piece of work during the Romantic era.

German television station Norddeutscher Rundfunk ( NDR ) recorded a performance of the piece in 1963, in its original English language, with a short introduction in German.

It was for the SPE that Bradley wrote his last piece, an introduction to " Tract No. XIV: On the Terms Briton, British, Britisher ".

" The band also asked Numan to record a spoken word piece for the introduction of Obsolete.

This was followed by the introduction of a double denarius piece, differentiated from the denarius by the radiate crown worn by the emperor.

This period saw the widespread introduction of mass production and piece work, which created problems as workmen could now earn more money by the production of extra products, which in turn occasionally led to poor quality workmanship being passed on to the assembly lines.

This piece is the introduction to Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth, edited by Sam Hamill and Elaine Laura Kleiner, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press .</ ref >

It turned out that the Chomsky piece was not written to be used as an introduction, although Chomsky had authorized its use to defend Faurisson in a different context.

In his introduction to the score, Reich mentions that although the piece is named Music for 18 Musicians, it is not necessarily advisable to perform the piece with that few players due to the extensive doubling it requires.

The word " prelude " means " an introduction or an announcement of an event ", and it also means a small piece of music used to introduce a larger piece of music.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

* David B. Allison is an early translator of Derrida and states in the introduction to his translation of Speech and Phenomena that: signifies a project of critical thought whose task is to locate and ' take apart ' those concepts which serve as the axioms or rules for a period of thought, those concepts which command the unfolding of an entire epoch of metaphysics.

Kenji Tokitsu has suggested that the accepted birth date of 1584 for Musashi is wrong, as it is primarily based on a literal reading of the introduction to the Go Rin No Sho where Musashi states that the years of his life " add up to 60 " ( yielding the twelfth year of the Tensho era, or 1584, when working backwards from the well-documented date of composition ), when it should be taken in a more literary and imprecise sense, indicating not a specific age but merely that Musashi was in his sixties when he wrote it.

According to the introduction of The Book of Five Rings, Musashi states that his first successful duel was at the age of thirteen, against a samurai named Arima Kihei who fought using the Kashima Shintō-ryū style, founded by Tsukahara Bokuden ( b. 1489, d. 1571 ).

This process was partially reversed from the 1970s onward, with the introduction of various forms of regional autonomy, in formerly centralised states such as France.

In the book's introduction, Schwartz states that the word " myth ", as used in the book, " is not offered to mean something that is not true, as in the current popular usage ".

" The introduction to the chapter more cautiously states, " The debate about whether and how much genes and environment have to do with ethnic differences remains unresolved.

Mary Shelley states in the introduction that in 1818 she discovered, in the Sibyl's cave near Naples, a collection of prophetic writings painted on leaves by the Cumaean Sibyl.

However, specialists of this period of Byzantine history, such as Paul Lemerle, have shown that Photius could not have compiled his Bibliotheca in Baghdad because he clearly states in both his introduction and his postscript that when he learned of his appointment to the embassy, he sent his brother a summary of books that he read previously, " since the time I learned how to understand and evaluate literature " i. e. since his youth.

However in the introduction of his book he states:

To this he wrote a new introduction ( on " The Present Crisis ") in which he stated explicitly his views on the effect of slavery on the economy and social conditions of the southern states.

In concert with disability scholars, the introduction to the ICF states that a variety of conceptual models has been proposed to understand and explain disability and functioning, which it seeks to integrate.

Each of these subjects read descriptions of two studies ; a comparison of U. S. states with and without the death penalty, and a comparison of murder rates in a state before and after the introduction of the death penalty.

In the introduction to the book he states " Starting in April 1945, the United States Army and the French Army casually annihilated one million men, most of them in American camps.

Heimkehrs introduction explicitly states that hundreds of thousands of Germans in Poland suffered as the characters in the film did.

Since its accidental introduction into the United States and Canada in the 1990s, and its subsequent detection in 2002, it has spread to eleven states and adjacent parts of Canada.

The book's introduction states that its author, John, was on Patmos when he was given ( and recorded ) a vision from Jesus.

The book's introduction states that its author, John, was on Patmos when he was given ( and recorded ) a vision from Jesus.

In the introduction he states: If old truths are to retain their hold on men's minds, they must be restated in the language and concepts of successive generations.

The introduction states: " These are the hidden words that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas wrote them down.

One story states that manufacturing delays deferred its introduction into the ST line until after the first STs had shipped.

In 2000 stamp duty was abolished in all states as part of the introduction of the GST.

He also states, in the introduction of the Mokhtār-Nāma, that he destroyed the Jawāher-Nāma ' and the Šarḥ al-Qalb with his own hand.

An introduction to one of the books in series states " History can be horrible.

Altered states of consciousness also occur in healthy women experiencing childbirth, hence the introduction of the term gender-specific states of consciousness.