Momentum transfer and entrapment pumps are more effective on some gases than others, so the pumping rate can be different for each of the gases being pumped, and the average volume flow rate of the pump will vary depending on the chemical composition of the gases remaining in the chamber.

Magma that cools slowly within a magma chamber usually ends up forming bodies of plutonic rocks such as gabbro, diorite and granite, depending upon the composition of the magma.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

Shia and Sunni Islamic parties have both criticised the government over the composition of the appointed Shura Council, after it was given a strongly liberal majority, with Al Meethaq being the biggest group in the chamber.

The story has been adapted to other media including film, opera, ballet, a Broadway musical ( 1979's Comin ' Uptown, which featured an all African-American cast ), a BBC mime production starring Marcel Marceau, and Benjamin Britten's 1947 chamber orchestra composition Men of Goodwill: Variations on ' A Christmas Carol.

" This conversational paradigm has been a thread woven through the history of chamber music composition from the end of the 18th century to the present.

In 83 string quartets, 45 piano trios, and numerous string trios, duos and wind ensembles, Haydn established the conversational style of composition and the overall form that was to dominate the world of chamber music for the next two centuries.

The Romantic era in music was to accept the centrality of this practice, codify the form explicitly and make instrumental music in this form central to concert and chamber composition and practice, in particular for works that were meant to be regarded as " serious " works of music.

The size of this fireball or kernel depends on the exact composition of the mixture between the electrodes and the level of combustion chamber turbulence at the time of the spark.

He then returned to Berlin to study piano under Ernst Rudorff and composition with Engelbert Humperdinck, later working under Max Reger in Leipzig, publishing chamber pieces, sonatas and lieder.

The music department features two symphony orchestras, five choirs, four string ensembles, two concert bands, a chamber group, a show choir, an opera company with pit orchestra and an experimental composition class in new music.

In addition to instrumental and vocal masterclasses, there are courses at various levels on subjects such as composition, opera, chamber music, conducting and improvisation.

The post at the RCM, which from 1925 he combined with the position of Director of Music at St Paul's Girls ' School, and frequent work as a competition adjudicator, was to reduce the amount of time he could devote to composition ; but he continued to write orchestral and chamber music, including the string quartet In Gloucestershire ( originally written 1916, but rewritten in whole or in part several times and not reaching its final form until the 1930s ), the overture Merry Eye ( 1920 ) and the second Piano Concerto ( 1925 ).

In New York City, Eisler taught composition at the New School and wrote experimental chamber and documentary music.

Though Lucier had composed chamber and orchestral works since 1952, the composer and his critics count his 1965 composition Music for Solo Performer as the proper beginning of his compositional career.

Coolidge's financial resources were not unlimited but through force of personality and conviction she managed to raise the status of chamber music in the United States, where the major interest of composers had previously been in orchestral music, from curiosity to a seminal field of composition.

He studied composition, conducting, chamber music, violin and percussion.

This led him to dedicate most of his career to the composition of chamber music, which was gradually coming into vogue for the first time in France, and works for orchestra.

( Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major ), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

His piano teacher at the academy was Pál Kadosa ; he studied composition with Sándor Veress and Ferenc Farkas, and chamber music with Leó Weiner.

He graduated in piano and chamber music in 1951 and received his degree in composition in 1955.

Since the 1980s he has fulfilled a number of large commissions, including Sudden Time ( for orchestra ), Three Inventions ( for chamber orchestra ) and Antara ( for ensemble and electronics, realised at IRCAM and the first composition ever published using the Sibelius notation program ).

One composition was his concertino " Odi et amo ", for soprano and chamber orchestra, which Wand wrote for his wife, the soprano Anita Westhoff.

In European classical music, piano quartet denotes a chamber music composition for piano and three other instruments, or a musical ensemble comprising such instruments.

Verdi ’ s masterworks dominate the standard opera repertoire a century and a half after their composition.

The opera, given in September 1840, was a flop and he fell into despair and vowed to give up musical composition forever.

Dafne by Jacopo Peri was the earliest composition considered opera, as understood today.

Before his emigration in autumn 1934, Adorno began work on a Singspiel based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer entitled The Treasure of Indian Joe, which he would, however, never complete ; by the time he fled Hitler's Germany Adorno had already written over a hundred opera or concert reviews and an additional fifty critiques of music composition.

While the earliest extant sketches date from December 1856, it was not until August 1857, however, that Wagner began devoting his attention entirely to the opera, putting aside the composition of Siegfried to do so.

The following year he began but later abandoned the composition of a new opera, La nonne sanglante ; some fragments survive.

Verdi finally completed the composition of the opera on 5 February 1851, a little more than month before the premiere, although as he worked on the final stages of Act 3, Piave had already arranged for the sets to be designed.

He was unable to complete his opera Moses und Aron ( 1932 / 33 ), which was one of the first works of its genre to be written completely using dodecaphonic composition.

Although Benedetto Marcello wrote an opera called La Fede riconosciuta and produced it in Vicenza in 1702, he had little sympathy with this form of composition, as evidenced in his writings ( see below ).

The Latin plural, opera, also denotes the opera music genre, wherein the works also are ( occasionally ) identified with a musical composition opus number, as in the grand opera Samson and Delilah, Op.

Its success led to the composition of a new work: the ballad opera Robin Hood.

In the process his music went through several changes of style ; the most dramatic and far-reaching of these was associated with the composition of his second opera King Priam.

Whiteman became interested in featuring such an extended composition by Gershwin in the concert after he had collaborated with Gershwin in the Scandals of 1922, impressed by the original performance of the one-act opera Blue Monday, which was nevertheless a commercial failure.

Academic majors are brass, collaborative piano, composition, guitar, harp, harpsichord, historical performance, jazz studies, orchestral conducting, organ, percussion, piano, strings, voice / opera, woodwinds.

Colonna who also designed sets for opera highlights the increasing tendency towards composition as a staged fiction in his frescoes.

He edited the last twelve books of the Odyssey, with valuable appendices on the composition of the poem, its relation to the Iliad and the cyclic poets, the history of the text, the dialects, and the Homeric house ; a critical text of the poems and fragments ( Homeri opera et reliquiae, 1896 ); Homeri opera ( 1902, with T. W. Allen, in the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis ); and an edition of the Iliad with notes for schools.

Most Academy students are classical performers: strings, piano, vocal studies including opera, brass, woodwind, conducting and choral conducting, composition, percussion, harp, organ, accordion, guitar.