Richard left America with his clothes, his biwa and his image of Acala and, on the freighter which took him to Japan, he plucked at the biwa, trying to make the sounds he wrought resemble an ancient Japanese tune he had once heard.

It has been associated with more than 20 melodies, but in 1835 it was joined to a tune named " New Britain " to which it is most frequently sung today.

The first was a radio receiver, such as the Icom PCR-1000, that could tune into the Reverse Channel, which is the frequency that the phones transmit data to the tower on.

Laws were passed in the US which prohibited the FCC type acceptance and sale of any receiver which could tune the frequency ranges occupied by analog AMPS cellular services.

This process, which could take months, would start with Chaplin describing to the composer ( s ) exactly what he wanted and singing or playing a tune he had come up with on the piano.

It's a pleasure to be able to say to you: Welcome to Channel Four ", before heading into a montage of clips from its programmes set to the station's signature tune, " Fourscore ", written by Lord David Dundas, which would form the basis of the station's jingles for its first decade.

For real-time, it is appropriate to simplify one or more common approximations, and tune to the exact parameters of the scenery in question, which is also tuned to the agreed parameters to get the most ' bang for the buck '.

As well, the low " E " strings used during the 19th century were thick cords made of gut, which were difficult to tune and play.

Scholes quotes a keyboard piece by John Bull ( 1619 ) which has some similarities to the modern tune, depending on the placing of accidentals which at that time were unwritten in certain cases and left to the discretion of the player ( see musica ficta ).

He also points to several pieces by Henry Purcell, one of which includes the opening notes of the modern tune, set to the words " God Save The King ".

This manuscript has the tune depart from that which is used today at several points, one as early as the first bar, but is otherwise clearly a strong relative of the contemporary anthem.

The music to which a hymn may be sung is a hymn tune.

The metre is often denoted by a row of figures besides the name of the tune, such as " 87. 87. 87 ", which would inform the reader that each verse has six lines, and that the first line has eight syllables, the second has seven, the third line eight, etc.

It is sung by The White Knight in chapter eight to a tune that he claims as his own invention, but which Alice recognizes as " I give thee all, I can no more ".

In tune with the unscripted nature, several techniques have arisen with which help improvisers to avoid prescripted jokes to arise in their scenes.

In some modern jazz styles, dominant 7th chords in a tune may contain altered 9ths ( either flattened by a semitone, which is called a " flat 9th ", or sharpened by a semitone, which is called a " sharp 9th "); 11ths ( sharpened by a semitone, which is called a " sharp 11th "); 13ths ( typically flattened by a semitone, which is called a " flat 13th ").

In many popular styles of music, such as rock and pop, the rhythm guitarist usually performs the chords in rhythmic fashion which sets out the beat or groove of a tune.

Del Rosario became famous in 1972 for his OMB ( One Man Band ) which could play the entire orchestra to the tune of cha-cha, boogie, and others.

In the traditional monolithic operating systems the authors had direct experience with which parts of the kernel called which others, allowing them to fine tune their pager to avoid paging out code that was about to be used.

A hymn tune composed by Samuel A.

He composed the tune for the old hymn " O Mother Dear, Jerusalem ", retitling the work " Materna ".

* Creation ( William Billings ), a hymn tune composed by William Billings

The second half of the 19th century witnessed an explosion of hymn tune composition and choir singing in Wales.

This provides a means of marrying the hymn's text with an appropriate hymn tune for singing.

* William Henry Monk ( 1823 – 1889 ), English hymn tune writer

For example, the tune ' Austria ' ( originally Haydn's ' Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser ') is associated today with the hymn ' Glorious things of thee are spoken ', just as ' New Britain ' an American folk melody, believed to be Scottish or Irish in origin ; has since the 1830s been associated with ' Amazing grace '.

The hymn's Scottish or Irish melody is pentatonic and suggests a bagpipe tune ; the hymn is frequently performed on bagpipes and has become associated with that instrument.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

* New edition of the Genevan psalter, Pseaumes octantetrois de David, with Louis Bourgeois as supervising composer, including first publication of the hymn tune known as the " Old 100th ".

Holst himself adapted the theme from " Jupiter " as a hymn tune under the name of " Thaxted ", specifically for the words " I Vow to Thee My Country ".

As a hymn tune it has the title Thaxted, after the town in Essex where Holst lived for many years, and it has also been used for other hymns, such as " O God beyond all praising ".

It is often sung in English as the hymn Of the Glorious Body Telling, to the same tune as the Latin.

* Ancient of Days is a well-known Anglican hymn, also known by its tune, Albany, by William Doane, the first Episcopal bishop of Albany, New York.

* ' Dundee ', tune to which the hymn I To The Hills Will Lift Mine Eyes ( Psalm 121 ) is usually sung

A recent theory, proposed by Clive McClelland of the University of Leeds, suggests that the hidden theme is the hymn tune " Now the day is over ".

He also used the Scottish hymn tune Crimond, a traditional French cradle song, an Irish version of the fertility dance-tune " All Around My Hat " and a reference to the English folksong " Early One Morning ".

* " Jordan ", a hymn tune by composer William Billings

* A hymn tune composed by Aaron Williams

" They went on to say, " there is no doubt that a deterioration in taste follows the use of this type of hymn and tune ; it fosters an attachment to the trivial and sensational which dulls and often destroys sense of the dignity and beauty which best befit the song that is used in the service of God.

During each hour, one prophecy is read at the beginning, a hymn is chanted twelve times, a psalm is sung in a sad tune, one passage from a gospel is read, and an exposition concludes the hour.

The Russian Federation itself had abandoned the Soviet hymn, replacing it with a tune by Glinka.